SEVENS HISTORY: SEVENS ASCENDANT – Part IV
SEVENS HISTORY: SEVENS ASCENDANT – Part IV By Allyn freeman The Hong Kong Sevens benefitted from newly found appeal to a global television sports audience, most of whom had never witnessed sevens play. Instead of a 90-minute slog of rugby fifteens with numerous...
SEVENS HISTORY: NEW YORK 7S – Part III
SEVENS HISTORY: NEW YORK 7S – Part III By Allyn Freeman The first seven-a-side tournament in the United States occurred in New York City during Thanksgiving of 1959. The New York RFC inaugurated the event where it would become known as the NY 7s. American...
SEVENS HISTORY: PACE AND POPULARITY – Part II
SEVENS HISTORY: PACE AND POPULARITY – Part II By Allyn Freeman For many decades, the end-of-season Middlesex and Melrose rugby sevens events garnered favorable media attention in England and Scotland. The tournaments were advertised as fun and crowd pleasing...
SEVENS HISTORY: MELROSE AND MIDDLESEX – Part I
SEVENS HISTORY: MELROSE AND MIDDLESEX – Part I By Allyn Freeman (Photo: Melrose 7s Field.) Rugby Union traces its ancestry back to William Webb Ellis when he picked the ball up on the Close grounds at Rugby School in 1823. Eventually, the rowdy student versus...
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