The Classic Guide to Rugby

D. R. Gent

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445645001
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

A sport popular in over 100 countries around the world, rugby is said to have originated when William Webb Ellis 'with fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time at Rugby school, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game'. While the popular story of the schoolboy William Webb Ellis going rogue is an amusing anecdote, it is unlikely that the development of the game was sourced from one youngster's actions. Written in 1922, The Classic Guide to Rugby looks at the shape of the game after the First World War. A firmly established and popular sport at the time of writing, D. R. Gent, an ex-England international, tackles differing types of play, the qualities of a good captain, the temperament required to be a patient and fair referee, the spirit of the game and rugby's position in future society.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• Preface
• 1 - Forward Play (Part One)
• 2 - Forward Play (Part Two)
• 3 - Half-Back Play (Part One)
• 4 - Half-Back Play (Part Two)
• 5 - Half-Back Play (Part Three)
• 6 - Threequarter Play (Part One)
• 7 - Threequarter Play (Part Two)
• 8 - Full-Back Play (Part One)
• 9 - Full-Back Play (Part Two)
• 10 - The Team as a Whole (Part One)
• 11 - The Team as a Whole (Part Two)
• 12 - Captaincy
• 13 - Training and Outfit
• 14 - Refereeing
• 15 - The Spirit of the Game
• 16 - Looking Ahead
• Appendices