RUGBY – FICTION, FILM, AND STAGE BY ALLYN FREEMAN For a sport celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2023, rugby union exhibits a shortfall of novels, films, or theatrical productions. Although there exist numerous thousands of informative non-fiction books...
USA RUGBY OLYMPICS, ANTWERP 1920 – PART I By Allyn Freeman In the years 1906 to 1917, the West Coast rugby college experiment – the substitutions of the sport for gridiron – failed to generate a national movement outside California and Nevada....
NEW ENGLAND RUGBY CHRONICLES BROWN UNIVERSITY 1960 TO 1967 By ALlyn freeman Oddly, the first time the words “Brown University” and “rugby” appeared in the same sentence occurred in the The Times of London in January of 1959. In a sports article...
U. CALIFORNIA RUGBY DYNASTY By Allyn Freeman In 1921, the nascent NCAA organization scheduled its first college championship in Track and Field. Since then, in more than one-hundred years, it has coordinated women’s and men’s athletic titles for three...
RISE OF GRIDIRON, FALL OF RUGBY (1883-1889) By Allyn Freeman An event suggesting the demise of rugby in America occurred in 1889 when Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp published in the magazine, This Week’s Sport, the first “All-American Football...
USA Rugby In Decline (1880 to 1895) By Allyn Freeman A magazine cartoon depicts two, tiny mammals peering out of foliage in the immediate aftermath of the meteor slamming into the Yucatan (Mexico) Peninsula sixty-six million years ago that eradicated the dinosaurs....
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