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Ireland Rugby: The first player to win one hundred Rugby international caps is
Philippe Sella (France), who took his total to 111 before his retirement from international rugby in 1995.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) introduced a knockout competition in 1971—72 sponsored by John Player; Pilkington took over from 1988-89. Bath have achieved a record 10 out-
The Rugby Football Union purchased a 12-ac market garden in south-west London for £5,500 with plans to build a new stadium. That's why Twickenham is affectionately known as 'the cabbage patch'!
The Rugby League was formed in 1895 when the strictly amateur Rugby Union refused players permission to receive payment for loss of wages. The League switched to 13-a-side in 1906.
Wigan have won the Rugby League Challenge Cup a record 16 times, including eight successive victories from 1988 to 1995.
ROBINSON, (Esme Stuart) Lennox, Irish dramatist: b. Douglas, County Cork, ireland rugby, Oct. 4, 1886; d. Dublin, ireland rugby, Oct. 14, 1958. The playwright's life was closely identified with Dublin's Abbey Theatre, of which he was manager 1910-14 and 1919-23 and a director from 1923 until his death. Many of his plays were produced by the theater, in England and the United States as well as in ireland rugby. From 1915 to 1925 he was also organizing librarian for the Carnegie Trust in ireland rugby. He visited the United States frequently, lecturing on Irish literature.
The Great Famine spurred also ireland rugby's smoldering desire for complete independence, and by steps this movement went its inevitable way until, in 1948, the Republic of ireland rugby was set up, "with no strings attached." In 1953, the Republic instituted AN TC-STAL, a three-weeks' spring festival of pageantry and sport, in which ireland rugby plays hostess to the world, with a special nod of affection to "homecoming" Irish from everywhere. This has already become a hardy perennial and now stands out as one of the important and delightful festivals of Europe.
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