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Modern Rugby football was certainly modelled upon schoolboy games played at the great English public schools. These days this modern, friendly and forward-looking club run thriving youth, junior and mini sections and are actively involved in the RFU Community Rugby initiative. One of the main changes that the new laws brought about were the abolition of hacking and tripping. In December 1872 ‘Bells Life in London’ wrote: the Gipsies have beaten Guy’s hospital, The Civil Service, Oakfield (Croydon), Ravenscourt Park, and have also fought a very hard and equal game with the Marlborough Nomads, and are better than ever this year, and I’m sure to win most of the matches’. When the game became open the club was very quickly identified as a potential money-maker and Richmond became the first fully professional club in 1996.

The Association and Rugby playing members were always on the most friendly terms, but before long their different styles of play caused them to drift apart (it is, perhaps, symptomatic of the closeness of the two sections that the die used to emboss the monogram of the club onto the fixture cards is the same as that which was in use when the one club played under the two codes).

They played only on Wednesdays, and were nomadic, although their secretary was based at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Queen’s House produced three England International is: Sydney Ellis, Thomas William Fry and Walter William Hewitt. In 1872 the club moved to the ‘Rifle Pavilion’ (so called because at that time there were rifle ranges on Wormwood Scrubs, immediately opposite) on the corner of Wood Lane and North Pole Road. They did not go in for a fast or showy game and were never great scorers, but their defence was wonderfully strong, and it is doubtful whether any team ever had a finer lot of tacklers’.

Peckham Rye Common, home to the Gipsies and Lausanne. However, several of these teams, due to necessity, have found homes at stadia outside the boundaries of the capital. What we do have, however, is a desire to get back to some core rugby values, and to help grass roots rugby and worthwhile causes along the way. After the 2nd World War, under the successive captaincies of H.W.F. Edwin Ash, A. Rutter, E.C. J.F. I remember being told, in the late ‘60s, by a prominent member of the Richmond team, that he had been to play at Wellington and had one of the hottest matches in which he had ever taken part. Alcock, captain of the Old Harrovian Forest Football Club added: ‘The Cambridge Rules appear to be the most desirable for the Association to adopt’. The new school had plenty of playing space – and in the early 19th century a game similar to the Shrove Tuesday spectacle, with ‘…rough handling of opponents and hacking, but very little handling of the ball…’ was being played on The Close – the playing fields of Rugby School. How did it get to London – and spread to the rest of the world, too, come to that? The club used the ‘Imperial Arms’ pub at Chislehurst as their headquarters. Edward Temple Gurdon, one of the game’s greatest talents, became captain of the club in 1880 and led it to great success.

Between 1913 and 1923 Commander W.J. They were quickly promoted to the new Premiere Division – but only three years later their millionaire backer withdrew his support and the club crashed into administration. The Clapham Rovers Association Football Club closed down at the onset of World War One and never re-formed. Following this first meeting, Morley left to draft a new set of rules that were intended to include: ‘…chief provisions of the rules in force at Rugby School, with a view to possible compromise.’ In essence, this meant that carrying the ball and hacking should be allowed. We must see more men fighting for their places in the team’. The Rovers played on Clapham Common, 10 minutes walk from Clapham Road Station. The College regularly fields 22 teams on Saturday afternoons and as many boys as possible participate. Andrew Stoddart appeared for Blackheath in 114 matches between 1883 and 1896 and was a sporting hero of the times. In 1982 the medical schools of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ merged after over a hundred years of separate teaching. From that time on Rosslyn Park became the ‘London club of choice’ for old Marlburians. The early school ‘home’ matches were played in Battersea Park – the boys changing at the Rosary Lodge in the park itself, using the nearby ‘Duke of Cambridge’ for refreshments. 60 played on Big Side, the rest of the School on Little Side. Guy’s fortunes fluctuated somewhat until the 1873-74 season, when they had their best run of success to date – due, in no small measure, to the influence of Pinching and also an England captain of the near future, Lennard Stokes. The club did, however, somehow manage to survive!

History of Rugby, Delivery We will update you once your order is ready to be shipped. Harlequins shirt worn by E.S. In 1875 they moved on to Putney, and a couple of years later they moved once more – this time to Wormwood Scrubs, shortly before the club finally disbanded in 1883. It stands in an attractive 400 acre woodland estate in Crowthorne, Berkshire (although the school is not a metropolitan establishment, I have included it here because most of their early games were played against the ‘first class’ London sides). This was a popular move amongst the boys and by the 1850s St. Paul’s had already formed a football society which played under Rugby School laws. The club was very strong throughout the ‘30s – and in 1932 they achieved the first of their two Middlesex 7s wins when they beat old rivals Harlequins 18-10 in the final tie at Twickenham. Brewer and J.N. The game of football probably started with the Romans and a game called ‘harpastum’ – which translates as ‘to seize’. King’s centenary year brought renewed hope, and two years later, under their new president Dr. Michael Brudenell, the hospital had their best season for 25 years – 25 won out of 35 played. Rawlinson and Robert Seymour Whalley. Formerly The Queen of England pub where the Ravens changed. Further information is lacking until 1887-88 when out of the blue, the club had a record season, being unbeaten throughout. Central to the meeting was the proposition: ‘That it is advisable that a Football Association should be formed for the purpose of settling a code of rules for regulation of the game of football’. Law, or the LAW CLUB as they were known, were founded in 1870. According to the ‘Guy’s Hospital Gazette’ in 1872 ‘…St. Richmond Football Club had also been invited, but declined to attend – their secretary, Edwin Ash, saying that they would be happy to play under whatever rules were offered. Already there had been a piecemeal move away from the handling and hacking aspect of the Rugby School game by such clubs as Sheffield, Uppingham School and Cambridge, who between 1848 and 1862 had each individually drafted their own ideas of universal and definitive rules. Returns & Exchanges This famous old club has won the Rugby Football Union Club Knockout Competition twice, the European Shield in 2001, and the Parker Pen Challenge Cup in 2004. Come and play for Central London's Rugby Club! We don’t have a Clubhouse, giving us the flexibility to pop up anywhere, whether in Central London or elsewhere. Shirts that require logo embroidery or number patches may take 1-2 weeks to process and so delivery may be slower than normal. These were later changed to all white. These have included Loftus Road, followed by High Wycombe and now Coventry. PE29 6GF In his book ‘Fifty Years of Rosslyn Park’ C.C. During the summer of 1868 Francis Luscombe, James Alfred Body and William J. Parker, all keen former Tonbridge School Rugby Football players, arranged a card of matches with a few friends against some of the fledgeling rugby clubs existing in London at that time. Shortly after their demise it was written that the players were ‘ a physically powerful lot; probably as strong a set of scrummagers as where ever got together. It was the hardest and best match I ever played and Ned Davenport always said the 1872 Wellington College team was, he thought, the best School team that probably ever played – and I think he was right…’. We quickly tumbled to the enormous advantage to be gained thereby and began to do it.

The club marked its centenary in 1958 with several special matches, including one against Richmond FC – the oldest inter-club fixture in the world. Terms & Conditions. Black&Blue1871 is an online business and we remain open. Another wonderful all-rounder of the day was the renowned Charles Burgess Fry. In rugby sevens, Twickenham Stadium annually hosts the London Sevens, the final event of the annual World Rugby Sevens Series for men's national teams. In 1865 it was decreed that not more than 75 should play on Big Side and this was reduced the next season to 60. In 1874 the club moved to New Cross Gate, then, in 1875, to Dulwich, five minutes walk from North Dulwich Station, and they change at the ‘Greyhound’ pub. What’s behind it? Clapham Rovers were present at the founding of the RFU in 1871, and one of their star players, the remarkable Reginald Halsey Birkett (scorer of the first -ever England try in an international against Scotland in 1871), was elected as one of the first RU committee men. Stoop had a vision of half-back play which was to evolve into the scrum-half / fly-half pairings that we still see today. In a report of a match played on 8th December, 1866 against C.C.C. Founded in 1868 it was one of the earliest of the old boys Rugby clubs to be established. When Harlequins moved to the Chiswick Park Cricket Club ground in 1883, they at last found stability and a proper home of their own. H.J. The St. Thomas’ Hospital Rugby Club grew very rapidly, and by 1870 it had 60 members who paid an entrance fee of 1/- and an annual subscription of 2/-. Holmes, the captain that season, copied the colours of a detachment of the Belgium Army he had admired on parade in London. Miller later wrote: ‘The disbanding of the famous Marlborough Nomads was a source of sincere regret to all others of football. Pillman became the club captain, and in the 1919/20 season Blackheath won 23 of their 25 matches, scoring 517 points with only 113 against. Another premiership team with London roots, London Irish, currently play outside Greater London, playing at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, within the London commuter belt, owned by the football club Reading F.C.. The ground also hosted the Rugby World Cup finals in 1991, in which Australia defeated England, and 2015, with New Zealand defeating Australia. St. Thomas’ first won the Hospitals Cup in 1878 and went on to win it on a further 15 occasions; the most successful run being six consecutive wins between 1892 and 1897.

It was during the five seasons (1878-83) spent at Devonshire Park in Chiswick that the Harlequins were greatly reinforced by an influx of experienced players from two fellow ‘founder member’ clubs of the RFU that had been disbanded – the Battersea-based Flamingoes Football Club (1865-77) and the Belsize Park Football Club (1870-1880). Throughout the 1870s they were one of London’s top clubs, certainly on a par with Blackheath FC. Despite the hospital’s ‘effortless play’ and ‘unflagging energy’, the loss of their half-back, plus the serious injury of another player, proved decisive in an honourable 14-3 defeat.

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