Did you know there used to be an American range of cars and trucks called 'Rugby'?
They were launched by Durant Motors Company of New York and produced between 1924-1933. They were popular in British Commonwealth countries such as NZ, Aus, SA.
#rugbyhistory #cars
RFU to Award Retrospective Caps to Players Who Represented England in Historic Fixtures. www.englandrugby.com/follow/news-... #sportshistory #rugby #rugbyhistory
An image from the 1968 France v Czechoslovakia rugby match held in Prague.
This was a full cap match for @francerugby.bsky.social (fresh off a Grand Slam) and they won 19-6.
Photo: Archive of Eduard Krutzner (Czech captain).
#rugbyhistory continues....🧵
Some really interesting #rugbyhistory here for you 👇🏻
Want to learn a little #rugbyhistory of PREM Rugby and rugby's resistance to leagues?
This is @leicestertigers.bsky.social captain Dusty Hare lifting the Courage League National Division 1 title, the first edition of today's PREM.
This was the 1987-88 season... 🧵
Awkward Rugby Tournament Promotional Pictures: #1 in a series of millions. #rugbyhistory
The launch of the Powergen Cup in Cardiff 2005.
(Photo by David Davies)
In Feb 1998, Wales, led by Rob Howley, beat Italy 23-20 at Stradey Park, Llanelli.
It was the 1st Wales match at the ground since 1893. Two years later Italy would become part of the 6N.
#WALvITA #rugbyhistory
An image of two female rugby players after a rugby match in 1956 for the Belles of St Mary's, a Sydney rugby league side.
May 1956: two players check out the damage after playing for
The Belles of St Mary's, the first women's rugby league team of the St Mary's Rugby League Club in Sydney, Australia. #rugbyhistory #womensrugby
Photo by Dennis Rowe.
In 2006, a year after their Grand Slam, Ireland dismantled Wales 31-5 in Dublin.
Gavin Henson was booed by the home crowd (his 2005 book had accused Brian O'Driscoll of gouging).
Oddly, several Irish journalists claimed the boos were from Welsh fans. #IREvWAL #rugbyhistory
Here's the match preview for #IREvWAL in 1990.
youtu.be/qm1VLyr_wfs?...
#rugbyhistory
In Dublin in 1990, Ireland and Wales were both rooted in the second division of world rugby and both sides were fighting to avoid a whitewash (Wales's first).
Ireland won a poor game 14-8. #IREvWAL
It was Wales's 5th straight loss, which was then a record. #rugbyhistory
Images from Ireland v Wales fifty years ago in 1976 at Lansdowne Road.
Wales, led by Mervyn Davies, won 34-9 (a huge score for the time at Test level) to win the Triple Crown. The Grand Slam would follow. #IREvWAL #rugbyhistory
One of my favourite rugby images.
Incorrectly labelled by Getty, so any insight into which team it may be, much appreciated. Published late 1920s it seems. #rugbyhistory
An image from the Library of Congress.
The only details are it's a group portrait of a Hong Kong rugby team from 1890.
One of the best rugby kits I've ever seen though. Have tried a translation app to read the text, but failed.
Anyone able to help? #rugbyhistory
Some St David's Day #rugbyhistory.
Wales 1st played on St David's day in 1890, drawing 3-3 with Ireland in Dublin. Charlie Thomas scored a try for Wales 5 mins from the end.
Nine players were arrested afterwards (8 were Irish) for 'exuberance of spirits'.
Shameful #rugbyvalues
#IREvWAL 1/2
Wales and Lions star Vivian Jenkins coaching at Dover College in 1933. #rugbyhistory
Thoughts on this attack @samlstandsup.bsky.social?
To follow up on the below #rugbyhistory post, here are some images from Scotland's 13-9* win that day on the way to their last Grand Slam.
*Didn't even need to look up the result. Scores stick in your head from your youth, somehow. #sixnations
A little bit of a different #rugbyhistory for today.
This is me at my first #WALvSCO match. I had gone with my cousin (only two years older than me) and the drunk guy next to me insisted I go on the track for a picture.
You can see the Welsh players having their half-time break. #6N
Some #rugbyhistory.
The entry for Sale Ireland's Chris Saverimutto in the 1996/97 edition of Rugby Unions Who's Who by Alex Spink.
Some #rugbyhistory from 1992 when France won 12-9 in Cardiff, with the key try coming from Philippe Saint-André.
#WALvFRA #6nations
Some #rugbyhistory ahead of #IREvITA in Dublin.
Images here are from Italy's 37-29 win at Lansdowne Road (pre 6N).
Remarkably, it was the 2nd win in a three match winning sequence for the Italians.
#sixnations
Team training sessions ahead of the 2000 #WALvFRA match in Cardiff.
It was the first time the two sides would meet in the new #sixnations format after the final 5 Nations in 1999.
France won 36-3. #rugbyhistory
The iconic #ENGvWAL 1990 Twickenham image as England cantered to a (then) shocking 34-6 victory over a rugby nation in crisis.
Wales's Andrew Allen sticks two fingers up to Brian Moore. Not the resistance that was needed that day.
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#WALvENG
Ahead of the opening #sixnations match, here are some shots from the 1988 #FRAvIRE clash in Paris. The home side won 25-6
Best ball and French kit of all time.
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Sam and Cian Prendergast are part a proud list of brothers to play together for Ireland - The Irish Times (✍️@IrishTimesRugby) #IrishRugby #BrothersInSport #RugbyHistory
For a moment I felt like Jim Slevin!
Probably the first Wiganer since Jim to hold this trophy aloft in the guise of the West Lancs Cup!
Oh to be in 1890!
#RugbyHistory #SocialHistory
Well known parasite and freeloader and friend of Jeffrey Epstein with members of the England rugby team in 2001. The photoshoot was part of an NSPCC campaign.
Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten-Windsor with members of the England Rugby squad as part of the NSPCC Full Stop campaign (February 2001).
#rugbyhistory #sixnations
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The world's leading rugby historian gave the late November sporting lunchtime lecture. Listen to Dr Tony Collins talk on the career of Roy Francis, an innovator and leader of post war Rugby League. The remarkable story of a black man from Wales who revolutionised coaching. #RugbyHistory
