I obsess on tennis but attended my first rugger match this year.
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Does this mean that "rugger", a firm favourite of the Old Etonian Boris Johnson, is becoming a true sport of the people?
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") and combine it with the propensity for British slang to add "-er" (like "rugger" for rugby and "brekkers" for breakfast), and you finally, sort of, get "soccer.
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In college, I played rugby and wore heavy cotton shorts and a stiff jersey, while suffering only some scraped elbows and several memorable hangovers from parties with "rugger huggers" after matches.
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Like Keets, Moya is from the planet Mira. ; : :Pilot of Rugger #13, which forms Dairugger's left forearm. ; : :Pilot of Rugger #14, which forms Dairugger's right foot. ; : :Pilot of Rugger #15, which forms Dairugger's left foot.
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The crowd guffawed loudly and the Rugger Blue laughed vinously.
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The Rugger Team is an exploration, planetary survey, and defensive force. Planet Earth is in a time of prosperity. The president of the Galaxy Garrison launches a mission to explore the galaxy and build a complete map of the stars. Soon after commencing the mission, the Rugger Team and their starship, the Rugger Guard, are attacked by the Galveston Empire.
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He is killed when the planet explodes from the Frontline Command's photon missile bombardment. The Rugger Guard crew posthumously names the planet . ; : :A Galveston infantry pilot. In episode 11, he is involved in a mid-air collision during training and crash lands near the vicinity of the Rugger Guard.
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In 1945 Sugden co-wrote with Gerald Hollis (1919–2005) a coaching book, Rugger: do it this way.
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Mutsu is the youngest member of the Dairugger team. ; : :Female pilot of Rugger #5, which forms Daiugger's chest.
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The Rugger Team is made of three smaller teams of five members each: "Aki Team" (Air), "Keets Team" (Sea), and "Walter Team" (Land), after each team's leader. Each of the 15 parts is referred to as a "Rugger" and can combine into larger machines as separate teams called Kurugger (Air), Kairugger (Sea), and Rickrugger (Land), as well as together to form the super-robot Dairugger. The 15 separate Rugger units as well as the name come from the sport of rugby, since 15 players are required to form a rugby union team.Clements, Jonathan.
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After receiving primary and secondary education at Nalanda College Colombo. While at Nalanda he excelled in studies and rugger playing for the college rugger team. Later he entered Sri Lanka Law College and was enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court in 1988 and served as a Research Assistant to the late Mark Fernando and late P. Ramanathan.
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Emma promptly escapes from the Rugger Guard and returns to her fleet. Despite her injuries, she defies Teles' orders to retreat and proceeds to attack the Earth flet, only to see her fleet wiped out before she is killed in a failed kamikaze run on the Rugger Guard. ; : :Emma's adjutant. In episode 38, Sams is briefly forced to command Emma's fleet after she is injured during a scouting run on Planet 58 and captured by Aki Team.
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In episode 33, Blanc's fleet attacks the Rugger Guard on a planet within the sector, but is wiped out by the incoming Three Planets Alliance fleet. ; : :Rocher's female subordinate. In episode 38, after failing to destroy Dairugger on Planet J, Emma is ordered by Rocher to intercept the Rugger Guard on Planet 58 at all costs. Her plan to lure the Dairugger team through a narrow valley goes wrong when she is injured by a swarm of the planet's birds and captured by Aki Team.
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In 1938 he returned to Wales becoming headmaster of Cowbridge Grammar School, a role he held until his retirement in 1971. Rees also released a book, Rugger Practice and Tactics, co-authored with H. F. Macdonald.
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The Rugger Team launches a counterattack in episode 23, forcing Lafitte to withdraw from the planet. In episode 27, Lafitte's fleet attacks the Galaxy Garrison's Space Fortress, but is killed when the Space Fortress launches a fierce counterattack after destroying the fleet's Battle Machine. Lafitte is named after Jean Lafitte, a French pirate who operated in the Gulf of Mexico during the early 19th century. ; : :A Galveston captain who disagrees with Teles' handling of the conflict with the Rugger Guard. In episode 16, Barataria and Lafitte stage a mutiny against Teles, which ends in failure.
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He is killed alongside Emma during a naval battle with the Rugger Guard. ; : :A Galveston military officer stationed at the Number 21 Star System supply base. In episode 39, after the Rugger Guard attacks and captures the base, Antonov is held prisoner along with his comrades, but he offers to play a game of rugby with the Earth officers until Danton's fleet arrives to retake the base. During the battle, Antonov is torn between peace with the Earth forces and his loyalty to the empire until he sees Danton's forces indiscriminately massacring his comrades.
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When Dairugger and the Rugger Guard wipe out Dorn's fleet, a critically injured Zuno realizes Earth's true intent and reveals the location of Galveston's Frontline Base to Aki before she dies. ; : :Leader of a technologically advanced humanoid tribe on Planet J in episode 37. Darl's tribe captures the Kurugger and interrogates Aki, learning that the Dairugger team is not a hostile threat like the Galveston Empire. The Aki Team discovers that the tribe previously lived on a planet with a red moon that the Rugger Guard recently explored.
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Very good powers of leadership - > exerts an excellent influence - is tactful & easy to deal with. Cheerful, > energetic & frank personality. Physically fit - plays & is interested in all > games. He has been a Rugger player of a high order & understands the game.
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Tony Collins. Football, rugby or rugger?, BBC sound recording with written transcript, and a comment in prose by Jonnie Robinson, Curator, English accents and dialects, British Library Sound Archive. In its heartlands, rugby league is referred to as either "football" or just "league".
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During the First World War, he sought out edelweiss-rare rugger matches. Between the wars, he rock-climbed, skated, and played golf. He played cricket for Cambridge University and for St Thomas's Hospital, where his fast right arm led the team to two successive victories in the inter-hospital Cup Final.
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Dairugger, the super robot, must defend the Rugger Guard and its fleet as they attempt to continue their mission. When Galveston repeatedly refuses to accept peaceful coexistence, their mission turns to finding the Galveston homeworld, liberating its people from their despotic Emperor, and helping them find a new planet before their world collapses.
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Hollis played rugby union at a senior level. As a student at Christ Church, Oxford, he was captain of the Oxford University RFC in the late 1930s. During World War II, he played for Sale, the Barbarians, and captained the Combined Services team. Later, he co-wrote with Mark Sugden a coaching manual titled Rugger: Do it this way.
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The term "soccer" was formed by analogy to "rugger", a nickname for rugby football. One of the early differences between the two codes, beyond playing style, was that of amateurism and professionalism. While rugby union football remained resolutely amateur until the 1990s (resulting in the split with rugby league), association football became professional very early on.
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The term has a similar meaning to "toff" and "rugger bugger" and is seen as the male equivalent of "Sloane Ranger". It is usually applied to a snobbish, arrogant aristocratic male with a privileged public school and university (Oxford or Cambridge) background, or simply a well-spoken, well- educated, wealthy, pompous male who stands out among lower classes.
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Marius is named after Simon Marius, the German astronomer who discovered the four major moons of Jupiter before Galileo Galilei. ; : :A Galveston commander who traps the Rugger Guard into a trap on a planet with inadequate oxygen in episode 26. His plan backfires when the affected Walter Team members regain consciousness and Dairugger is formed to fight his fleet's Battle Machine.
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Among his many books were The Log of a Sportsman (1923), From a Window at Lords (1937), Who's Won the Toss? (1940) and Rugger: The Man’s Game (1944), reminiscing on the past fifty years of the game. Edward died on 20 September 1947 in Paddington, London. His obituary in The Times newspaper wrote of his achievements as a writer and player, both of cricket and Rugby football.
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Rinaldo Joseph "Rugger" Ardizoia (November 20, 1919 – July 19, 2015) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 5"11", 180 lb. right-hander was one of only seven Italian natives to ever play in the big leagues. He appeared in one game for the New York Yankees in 1947 and, at the time of his death, was the oldest living former member of the team.
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Gant, stylized as GANT, is an American Swedish clothing brand, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The company was founded in 1949 by Bernard Gantmacher and was originally based in New Haven, Connecticut. Gant operates in 70 markets and its products are available at over 4 000 retailers and Gant-stores all over the world. "House of Gant" has three different collections: GANT, GANT Diamond G and GANT Rugger.
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Prior to their divorce, he was romantically linked by some members of the press with Diana, Princess of Wales, the then-wife of Prince Charles.Warren.J "What happened to Diana's men"Daily Express, 2007-11-23. Retrieved on 2008-12-02CBS Worldwide "Diana's secret love" CBS News, 2004-04-21. Retrieved on 2008-12-02Time.com "Sweep it under the rugger" Time Magazine, 1996-03-25.
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For example, in the Encyclopedia Canadiana, the entry Rugby Football begins "the Canadian development of rugby union or "English rugger" introduced into Canada in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.", but admits later that "the Canadian game is a radical departure from rugby union". Canadian football is in fact a descendant of the rugby code."Rugby Union and Rugby League" in Encyclopedia Canadiana, p113.
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The end result being that they and a bunch of friends trooped of to a secluded beach for a game of rugger, 15-a-side with more players available if the need arose. Col Trevor who acted as referee marveled at the skills of the girls and described how they improvised with kit, by wearing bathing hats to lessen the chance of being "tackled" by the hair.
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In the 1960s, Gant made the Yale co-op shirt exclusively for the store on the Yale University campus. In 1968, the Gant brothers sold the company to Consolidated Foods but remained with the company. In 1971, the company launched its first sportswear line and in 1974 launched its Rugger brand. In 1979, Gant became a subsidiary of apparel manufacturer The Palm Beach Company and ceased operations in New Haven.
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In 1982, the original DX Dairugger XV toys were released by Popy Pleasure under the toy release number of GB-72, as part of the Chogokin label, and constructed of high-quality die-cast materials, with transforming gimmicks, which could separate only into the three larger combined vehicles. GB-73, a cheaper, ST (standard) version would follow, only Rugger #5 could separate from the robot. A larger version of Dairugger XV was also released, which did not contain die-cast materials, as the metal content was too heavy for the design and for the friction motors installed in many of the vehicles. The smallest non-transforming ST Dairugger and the fully transforming plastic Dairugger XV would be resold in the U.S. as part of the Voltron series by Matchbox in 1984, entirely under the Voltron name. However, the Matchbox version omitted the Dairugger Sword, Rugger units #6, #9, and #10's chrome antenna parts, and the sticker sheets of the Popy version.
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He won college colours at rugger and won the Dornhorst Memorial Prize and the Shakespeare prize. He went on to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1935 where he became a communist, President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the student magazine Granta. He gained a BA Tripos in History, Sociology and English Literature and joined the Gray's Inn to study law leaving without taking his bar examinations. Later he gained a MA from Cambridge.
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His successor was Ned Anderson, an alumnus and former rugger for the Bears. In September 2010, the university announced that rugby would be one of five varsity sports cut as a cost-cutting measure, though the team would have continued to represent the university as a "varsity club sport." A large group of rugby supporters organized and disputed the relegation."Cal to Cut Five Intercollegiate Teams". The Daily Californian. 2010-09-28.
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While the Galveston Empire starts the war with the Rugger Guard, Teles believes that both factions should explore the galaxy together. In episode 22, he is relieved of his duty Commander Luciano and sent back to planet Galveston to become Garrison Commander. Upon his return to the planet, Teles is reassigned as Frontline Exploration Base Commander. Shortly after the destruction of Frontline Command, he is given new orders to attack and destroy the Earth fleet.
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Ise does not take Sim as a prisoner of war, but welcomes him as a guest of the ship. Izumo initially shows hostility towards Sim, but they shortly become friends. Once the Rugger Guard crew repairs Sim's ship, he bids them farewell and heads back to the Galveston fleet, only to be shot down and killed by Lafitte. In episode 52, Sim's younger brother is one of the three soldiers who assassinates Teles.
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The following year, and possibly as a result of some disagreement among the members as to whose school was better at "rugger", the Schools 7s was born. The event was first held in 1939 and has been held every year since, becoming one of the oldest continuous tournaments for schools and the oldest ongoing schoolboy rugby tournament in England. The first tournament was won by St George's School, Harpenden, which was a fee- paying independent school at that time.
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R.N., is listed in Wikipedia as an Australian cricketer playing in England in the early 20th century. He was, in fact, an all-round sportsman and won four caps playing rugger for Scotland. He came to England at about 11 to go to Dartmouth College, with a view to a career in the Royal Navy. He was sponsored by the then Governor General of Australia, Lord Jersey, and spent some time at his home, Osterley Park.
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The LD10 Blizzard was launched in 1980 and is based on the Daihatsu Taft (also known as the Scat), and was replaced in 1984 with the LD20, based on the Daihatsu Rugger. The Blizzard was only intended for the Japanese domestic market. The Blizzard LD10 equipped with the naturally aspirated 2.2 (2188 cc) L diesel engine. The engines were originally coupled to a Toyota 4-speed manual transmission, while 1983+ models came with a 5-speed.
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He defies Teles' orders and proceeds to advance towards the Earth fleet before Nolan arrives and stops him in time for peace talks. In episode 43, when the negotiation falls through and Teles has his fleets leave the planet, Rocher has Jackson return and attack the Earth fleet protecting the planet. Jackson's fleet is wiped out by the Earth forces. ; : :A Galveston commander who attacks the Rugger Guard during a planetary exploration in episodes 1-3.
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He orders his fleet to leave the planet upon the presence of the Dairugger team. Despite his fleet's efforts to destroy their research information, the Dairugger team acquires vital exploration data from the abandoned base. ; : :A Galveston commander sent by Teles to the Number 3 Planet to open peace talks with the Earth fleet in episodes 42-43. He arrives and stops Jackson from attacking the Rugger Guard before discussing with Ise on a meeting between Asimov and Teles.
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In 1815 the first written rules were drawn up and 1863 the Football Association was formed in Britain. At this time the two codes of Rugby and Association football were defined. In 1870 an 11 player team was agreed upon and regulations were further refined in the 1870s and 1880s. The word "soccer" was coined from the abbreviation "assoc" (as opposed to the derivation of the term "rugger" from rugby) in the 1880s, though it was not in general use at that time.
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Cambridge placed emphasis on its rugby and cricket teams, but by this time Drake had lost interest in sport, preferring to stay in his college room smoking cannabis and playing music. According to fellow student Brian Wells, "they were the rugger buggers and we were the cool people smoking dope".Dann (2006), p. 25 In September 1967, Drake met Robert Kirby, a music student who went on to write many of the string and woodwind arrangements for Drake's first two albums.
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The LD20 Blizzard is based on the Daihatsu Rugger and is equipped with the 2.4-litre (2446 cc) 2L diesel engine producing 83 PS, and from 1985 it was fitted with the 96 PS 2L-T turbodiesel. The Blizzard has part-time four-wheel-drive with a 5-speed manual transmission with a 2-speed transfer case. The LD20 underwent a minor facelift in 1987 and can be identified by the change from round to rectangular headlamps and larger bumpers.
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Sonny Flint departed in 1987 and the band split in 1988. Omega Tribe reformed briefly to play guest spot at Vi Subversa's 60th Birthday Bash at London's Astoria 2 in June 1995. A short incognito tour under the name of Charlie showed promise, but the band's members had other interests and the project was short-lived. A compilation CD, Make Tea Not War, was released in 2000 on Rugger Bugger Records and a cut-down vinyl LP version was also pressed.
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Comparison of association football (football/soccer) and rugby union (rugby/rugger) is possible because of the games' similarities and shared origins. Rugby union has a number of set pieces, such as line-outs, scrums and rucks that do not have direct equivalents in association football. Association football aims at a more open kind of play, and there is not the same differentiation between forwards and backs. Another major difference is that rugby union, unlike association football, has no goal keeper.
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Within three seasons the Club achieved membership of the WRULlantwit's election to membership of the Welsh Rugby Union after three full seasons since the formation of the club has caused a surprise in Welsh rugger circles, writes Frank James. The Observer, Leader & Free Press - Saturday 7 October 1950. In 1951 the Llantrisant and Llantwit Fardre Rural District Council made a field available at Cae Fardre, Church Village. It was officially opened on 1 September 1951 with Pontypridd RFC providing the opposition.
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Whilst at Edinburgh University William Forsyth was a noted athlete and rugby footballer. He was on the Edinburgh union’s rugby committee in 1871EDWARD RAVENSCROFT, THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY CALENDAR 1871-72, p66, 1871 and in 1871 was selected to represent Scotland in the first international match against England. This was played on 27 March 1871 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh and won by Scotland. He was one of two representatives from Edinburgh University.W. W. Wakefield, Rugger - The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football, (READ BOOKS, 2008) , Rugbyfootballhistory.
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His photography has been seen on covers and features of newspapers and international magazines, such as Vogue UK, Men's Vogue, Italian Glamour, Italian GQ, French, Block, Violet Grey, WWD Beauty, Interview, Nylon, and Wonderland. His advertising clients include Diesel, Victoria's Secret, Gant Rugger, Dorchester Hotels, 7 For All Mankind, Aldo, Jean Louis David, Wella, Bloomingdale's, Regis, Kenneth Cole, L'Oréal, Garnier, Sonia Rykiel, and H&M.; His photography also features the cover of British indie rock band the Arctic Monkeys's third album, Humbug.NME, Arctic Monkeys unveil 'Humbug' artwork.
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Rather than surrender to Teles, Barataria shoots himself in the head while Lafitte and the surviving mutineers are arrested. Barataria is named after Barataria Bay, a bay in Louisiana known for being Jean Lafitte's base during the early 19th century. ; : :A Galveston captain loyal to Teles. In episode 18, Marius leads his fleet in a joint planetary expedition with the Rugger Guard, but he is forced by Lafitte to break the alliance and destroy the planet's forestry to make room for a Galveston base.
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When his fleet is wiped out, he attempts a Kamikaze run on the Rugger Guard, but his flagship is destroyed by Dairugger. ; : :A Galveston commander who holds the male population of the planet Eldora captive in his underground base in episode 28. When Dairugger appears on the planet, the Eldorans stage an uprising and kill Sheela. ; : :A Galveston commander who leads the Earth invasion fleet. In episode 30, he successfully penetrates Earth's defenses and bombards Galaxy Garrison's capital city, despite his fleet sustaining heavy losses.
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Grayburn then married his third wife Muriel Mary Mellor, daughter of C. B. Mellor of Chester. Muriel Mary Grayburn was also sent to the Stanley Internment Camp when her husband was sent to the Stanley Prison and survived through the Japanese occupation. Grayburn was enthusiastic in sports and played golf, tennis, racing and rugby. He was a centre three-quarter rugger for Shanghai and the Interport match against Tientsin in 1907 and figured in inter-club matches in Hong Kong in 1912 and 1913.
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This is the most popular term for two key reasons. Firstly, this is the biggest sporting season insofar as the boys play rugby (or "rugger") every week and is the term during which trials for Matabeleland Duikers U13 rugby take place. Rugby is a very popular sport at REPS, with over half the boys taking part to form the First, Second and Colts teams. The First team plays at a competitive level, often defeating local schools such as Whitestone School and Petra Junior School and faring well in the coveted Falcon College Junior Rugby Festival.
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Secom Rugguts is a Japanese rugby union team founded in 1985 by SECOM. Its name is a portmanteau of "Rugger" and "Guts". The club was in the Top League for the first season of the league but was demoted at the end of the season. As the top team of the Top East league and by then coming second after Fukuoka Sanix Bombs in the three-way Top League Challenge Series, Secom got back into the Top League for the 2005-6 season but was relegated again in 2006-7.
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Beckett won innumerable cups and medals for boxing, bayonet fighting, sabres and foils at the Naval Colleges, and later in the fleet and at the Royal Naval and Military Tournament. Prince Edward and Beckett both joined the battleship HMS Hindustan as midshipmen in August 1911, and served together for a period of three months, until Edward was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford, for further studies. After two years as a midshipman Beckett was promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant and he was also playing fullback in the Navy rugger team.
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The first recorded use of the word to refer to the ball was in 1486, and the first use as a verb in 1599. The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and is credited to late nineteenth century English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown. Ekblom mentions that while he was up at Oxford, Charles Wreford-Brown was asked at breakfast if he was playing rugger "No" he replied "I'm playing soccer" (Granville, 1969, p. 29). But Ekblom opinions that like the William Webb Ellis rugby story it is most likely apocryphal.
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He was the captain of the Oxford side that toured France in 1929. Of his captaincy, it was noted by The American Oxonian, that he was criticised by those who lamented that not more English public school boys were on the side and that Gubb was "more attracted to a man who can play rugger than one who had played at Rugby or Uppingham".The American Oxonian, Volumes 51-52 By Association of American Rhodes Scholars page 4 He went on to captain both Blackheath F.C. and Middlesex RFC.
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Sale moved into Heywood Road in 1905 and would remain there until 2003. Sale were unbeaten in 26 matches, winning 24 and drawing two in 1911. Although Pat Davies is counted as Sale's first international, having been picked to play for England in 1927, it was G.A.M. Isherwood who was Sale's first representative in an international Test match,W. W. Wakefield, H. P. Marshall, Rugger – The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football, 1928, page 361 when he played in all three tests of the 1910 British tour to South Africa at scrum-half.
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Women's rugby began in the early 1980s—encouragement and coaching provided by Bowdoin rugger David Weir. In the mid-1980s, a local Maine resident named Brad Osborn informally helped coach the club. In 1985, a (well deserved) suspension rocked the team and Andy Palmer ‘88 and other players recruited Rick Scala to start coaching and providing supervision per the request of then Bowdoin Athletic Director Sid Watson—Scala's first season was the fall of 1986. Bowdoin Ruggers have been selected to represent the New England Rugby Union, the Northeast Rugby Union as well as the All-American Rugby Team.
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He was also a secretary to the committee working to standardise military stores. His posting was completed in September 1953, and as a result he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1954 New Year Honours, the counter-signing officer also commented: "Quite apart from his work here, this officer deserves recognition for his services to Army cricket and rugger [Rugby Union] over a long period."Recommendations for Honours and Awards (Army)—Image details—Simpson, Frank William—Officer of the Order of the British Empire, DocumentsOnline, The National Archives. Retrieved on 2008-12-08.
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Wat Tyler were an English punk/novelty band of the late 1980s and 1990s, fronted by Sean Forbes alongside Simon Tucker and Smithy. The band were known for their eclectic style, political commentary, surreal humour, and inside jokes, and produced a number of EPs and albums on different labels, including their own Rugger Bugger imprint and Lookout! Records. Wat Tyler evolved from early 1980s anarcho-punk band 4 Minute Warning, and were performing gigs by 1986. Debut EP Contemporary Farming Issues was released in 1989 and included "Hops and Barley", later covered by and a live favourite for Leatherface.
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While trying to retrieve the rugby ball, he is killed by Danton's Battle Attacker during its fight with Dairugger. ; : :A Galveston captain who is ordered by Teles to set course for the unexplored sector near the Number 21 Star System supply base, but decides to take Rocher's orders to recapture the base from the Earth fleet. During the assault, Danton is killed by Dairugger while his fleet is wiped out by the Rugger Guard. ; : :A Galveston commander whose exploration fleet discovers a habitable planet in the form of the Number 3 Planet of the Number 37 Star System in episode 41.
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It is revealed that the tribe fled the planet and limited their use of technology after rendering the planet uninhabitable from years of nuclear testing. After Dairugger defeats a Battle Attacker launched by Emma's fleet, Darl forms an alliance with the Rugger Guard and pledges to support the fleet in their war against the Galveston Empire. ; : :A boy that Walter Team encounters on Planet 71 in episode 40. When Denon falls off a waterfall while carrying a fawn, Izu and Nagato save them from drowning before they run away, leading Walter Team to the planet's inhabitants.
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The poet and writer Dylan Thomas lived locally on Milkwood Road and used to drink at The Half Moon. Writer A.F. Churchward-Tinsley, writing in a Welsh magazine in 1959, first drew the connection between Dylan Thomas and the Half Moon. He interviewed Dylan's friend, sculptor and London Welsh rugby player, Evan Samuel, who recounts how, "Dylan used to come to watch the London Welsh games, and when, after the match, the teams would gather, as rugger clubs do, for a few pints at the old Half Moon Hotel at Herne Hill, Dylan would be there adding lustre to the gathering. He was a great conversationalist".
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I have large framed photos of him as captain with his team playing rugger in Varsity Matches and for the Army v Navy Match, at cricket at Lords. Latterly, when his health failed, he took up croquet and there is a sketch of him from a croquet magazine after he won an All-England tournament. I also have his 2 caps (with the 4 dates) which are photographed on the 100 He died of cancer in his home in Wimbledon and his wife was then offered a Grace and Favour property at Hampton Court Palace but she preferred to move to a small hotel room in west London.
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Spiegl was born near the Hungarian border in the village of Zurndorf, Burgenland, Austria, where his father was a businessman manufacturing among other things carbonated water. Spiegl attended the Gymnasium in Eisenstadt but, as the family were Jewish, they were persecuted by the Nazis in the wake of the Anschluss of 1938. All their property having been confiscated, Fritz's parents succeeded in leaving the country in 1939, eventually escaping to Bolivia while sending Fritz and his older sister Hanny (born 1923) to Northamptonshire, England. On arrival in Britain, Spiegl was sent to Magdalen College School, Brackley, where he learned little beyond "rugger, plane-spotting and a bit of Latin".
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The word derives from "association" – as in the Football Association – in contrast to "rugger", or rugby football. It is English in origin, and caught on in the United States to distinguish the game from the locally better known American football; it also became predominant in other countries where another sport is known as football, such as Australia with Australian rules football. The term was in use in Britain throughout the early 20th century and became especially prominent in the decades after World War II, but by the 1980s British fans had begun avoiding the term, largely because it was seen as an Americanism.Friedman, Uri (13 June 2014).
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Teams from as far afield as Moldova (RC UTM being the eventual winners), Slovenia and Germany participated. The success, especially due to the traditional and not so traditional entertainment available after the rugger - the event was held in conjunction with the local fair - encourages the Matadors to repeat the event next year on the second weekend of September, open to all interested teams and clubs. The season 2008/09 marks a big step in the development of the club. Together with another club based in Carinthia, the Carinthian Bulldogs, founded early in 2008, the Matadors have been invited by the Austrian Rugby Union to participate - as Team Carinthia - in the forthcoming Second National Division.
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He played in the annual Bradby Shield Encounter. He was the winner of the Senior Batting Prize in 1948, a Rugger Coloursman in 1948 and 1949, Trinity Athletics Lion in 1949, and winner of the first Duncan White Challenge Cup for Athletics in 1948. In recognition of his all-round performance in academic and extra curricular spheres, he was awarded the prestigious Ryde Gold medal for the best all round student of 1950. He was also the Senior Prefect of Trinity College. In 1950 Kadirgamar went on to study law at the University of Ceylon in Colombo and the year after in Peradeniya, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Honors) degree in 1953.
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Tiverton Rugby Football Club was the opposing team in the first recorded rugger match played by the boys of Blundell's School in 1868. According to the club's website, the game was played under the school's own rules: with twenty players in each team, no flags, a referee and two umpires and it was known as the "carrying game". The team adopted the standard rugby rules in 1870, following which it played not only against the school but against teams from nearby towns such as Crediton, Exeter and Wellington. During the 1880s the club was considered to be one of the top clubs in the South West, and won the inaugural Devon Rugby Football Union annual competition in 1888.
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In turn, Walters called his old mate Joolz Dean (Pat and Joolz had played in an early incarnation of The Wildhearts and before that in London glam punk act Soho Roses) and the line-up was complete. After touring up and down the United Kingdom with the likes of Leatherface, NOFX and Wat Tyler, the band set about recording demos. This coincided with a tour of the Basque region in Spain, where copies of the demos sold well. On their return Sean of Wat Tyler, the man behind Rugger Bugger Records, put up the modest money to record a Guns 'N' Wankers album, which was recorded and produced by Andy J. Davies in Hitchin, Herts.
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Although Pat Davies is counted as Sale's first international, having been picked to play for England in 1927, it was G.A.M. Isherwood who was Sale's first representative in an international Test match,W. W. Wakefield, H. P. Marshall, Rugger – The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football, 1928, page 361 when he played in all three tests of the 1910 British tour to South Africa at scrum-half.Despite playing for the British team, Isherwood was never selected for England. The club has consistently provided international players and, during the 1930s, had one of its most dominant periods, fielding players of the calibre of Hal Sever (England), Claude Davey and Wilf Wooller (Wales) and Ken Fyfe (Scotland).
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If it had struck any other part of his body, he would have survived. Tarr was buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground that night, not far from where he was killed. Captain John Milne, in Footprints of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment, described Tarr as > "...the most attractive personality in the battalion, young, good-looking, > full of charm, with an eye that always had a twinkle in it, a born leader, > yet the kindest person possible, a Rugger international, the idol of the > machine-gun section, which he commanded before he became adjutant. Everybody > was heartbroken, for everybody would miss him they would not look upon his > like again...." Tarr was one of 27 England rugby players killed in the First World War.
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Officially the Club was formed at a meeting held at the Chequers Hotel in the High Street, Marlow on Tuesday 3 February 1947. However, a rugby match was played on 8 February 1913 on Crown Meadow against High Wycombe RFC and (not for the first time), Marlow triumphed by 13pts to nil. One of the players who took part in this game, a Dr. G Berkeley Wills wrote to the Club in 1964 to confirm the events of that day. He wrote :- 'At the end of 1912 one or two of us who had been at schools which played Rugger thought it might be amusing to get together if possible a team to show Marlow - which was then prominent at Soccer - what 'The handling game' was like.
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The Ottawa Wolves RFC was founded in 2008 by Carl Pilon and Jay Smidt, both Hero award recipients, with the mission to promote and encourage participation in rugby among those who have traditionally been under-represented in the game, with an emphasis on gay men. The club played its first game in October 2008 at the inaugural Dirty Rugger Tournament, where they tied the Muddy York 5-5. The following year, the Ottawa Wolves joined both the Ontario Rugby Union and the International Gay Rugby Association and Board (IGR), and played their first season as the only team in the EORU Men's Division II developmental league. In a 7-game season against teams in Men's Division I, the Ottawa Wolves finished with 513 points against, and 0 points for.
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There was opposition to the site by many residents of Germiston who complained that it was too far out of town! Colours were selected in 1917 but there was difficulty in obtaining them because of the Great War, and for the same reason, when they were obtainable, they were not of a very good quality. Mr R.J. Johnson became headmaster in 1919, a position he occupied until 1924, when he was succeeded by Mr F.N. Gammidge. At the beginning of the 1925 season the school game was changed from soccer to “rugger” and during the same year the cadet detachment had the honour of providing a guard of honour to H.R.H the Prince of Wales, (to later become King Edward VIII) on the occasion of his visit to Germiston.
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Smallwood made his Leicester debut on 2 October 1920 at Welford Road against Headingley in a 33-3 win for the home side, this match was also the official opening of the Crumbie Stand. Smallwood was never a regular in the team playing only 12 games in that season and never featuring in more than 14 games in any individual season. Smallwood was prolific though scoring 47 tries in only 64 games including a record 7 tries in a single match, against Manchester R.F.C. on 30 December 1922. In the book Rugger by Wavell Wakefield, a contemporary Tigers teammate, Smallwood was described as "one of the most enterprising, as well as one of the most cleverest, post-War backs" and credited with starting the tactic of wingers throwing into the lineout rather than scrum halves.
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Beard's non-fiction works often combine aspects of travel writing and memoir. His first work of non-fiction, Muddied Oafs, The Last Days of Rugger (2003), traces the changes to the game of rugby union in the wake of professionalisation. Beard looks at his own many years of playing the sport, from his school days to amateur British and Swiss clubs and on a professional team in France from 1992 to 1994, where he played in the position of fly-half. He debates how much longer he can continue to play as he accumulates injuries and slows down, yet dreads the thought of giving up the sport that he wants to believe has made him a better man It was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
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It is believed that United Services Portsmouth RFC was founded in 1882, there being records of the club from that dateW. W. Wakefield, H. P. Marshall, Rugger - The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football, pages 364-365, With the exception of the 1884-5 season and the War Years, the club has unbroken records of fixtures. At the beginning of the twentieth century the club found it hard to gain support from service players, because it was considered necessary to turn out for civilian clubs to get first-class games. However, in 1902 the United Services Recreation Ground began to give financial support to the club to stimulate interest and by the time a Royal Navy Rugby Union was formed in 1906 the club was performing strongly with an excellent reputation and equally strong fixture list.
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Birkenhead Park was formed in 1871, the same year as the Rugby Football Union, from the amalgamation of two smaller clubs, Claughton and Birkenhead Wanderers during the 1871/72 season.W. W. Wakefield, Rugger - The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football pp322 After an initial period where the club failed to find any form, the season of 1877/78 saw the team losing only two matches from 19. The club was central to the formation of the Cheshire County Union, and in 1887 Birkenhead Park was chosen as the venue for the Home Nations clash between Wales and Ireland; the first time a Home Nations Championship game had ever been played on neutral soil. The club has a rich history and have hosted the New Zealand All Blacks team on four occasions most recently in 1978 and in 1984 they hosted the North of England's match against Romania.
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Isherwood went on to play for Cheshire and played regularly for that county side in the 1909 season.Sporting Honours : Old Alleynians from the 1910 yearbook Page 245/395 Isherwood also played for Sale and was part of the 50th anniversary team that swept to an unprecedented season record of P 26, W 24, D 2.A Brief History of Sale FC. Although P.H. Davies is counted as Sale's first international (having been picked to play for England in 1927), it was Isherwood who was Sale's first representative in an international Test match,W. W. Wakefield, H. P. Marshall, Rugger - The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football, 1928, page 361 when he played in all three tests of the 1910 British tour to South Africa at scrum-half. Isherwood was selected for this first official tour (in that it was sanctioned and selected by the four Home Nations official governing bodies) and took part in twenty out of the twenty four matches played, including all three ‘Tests'.
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Rugby is the main sport played at Blundell's in the Autumn and Spring terms. The earliest mention of "football" in the Blundellian was in 1861 and the first recorded "rugger" match played by boys at Blundell's was in 1868 against Tiverton Rugby Club, making the school one of the oldest anywhere formally to play the game. The Blundell's crest still hangs in the main room at Twickenham in recognition of this.www.blundells.org - Rugby The first OB to gain International Honours was R. S. Kindersley for England in 1884 and on 1 January 1908 Thomas Kelly captained England to a 19-0 victory over France. The strongest years for Blundell's were the two decades after World War 2, when Clem Thomas gained 26 caps for Wales in 1949–59 (in 1958–59 as captain), Richard Sharp won 14 caps for England 1960-67 (Captain 1963 and 1967) and David Shepherd won five caps for Australia in 1964–66.
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The game also came to be called "soccer" as a shortening of "Association" around the same time as Rugby football, colloquially referred to as "rugger", was developing as the main ball carrying version of English football, and "soccer" remains a common descriptor in countries with other prominent football codes today. These first FA laws contained elements that are no longer part of association football, but which are still recognisable in other games (e.g. Rugby Union and Australian rules football): for instance, if a player first touched the ball behind the opponents' goal line, his side was entitled to a "free kick" at goal, from that point and fifteen yards [approximately 14 metres] in front of the goal line; and a player could make a catch and claim a "mark", which entitled him to a free kick from or behind that point (see Laws 7 and 8 respectively). The laws of the game agreed on by the FA members stipulated a maximum length and breadth for the pitch, the procedure for kicking off, and definition of terms, including goal, throw in, offside.
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Together with their sister, Miss E. F. Valentine, the brothers were reputed to have been responsible for some of the first organised rugby at Portora. W. J. Valentine, as Second Master, also acted as Headmaster during the last difficult years of the Steele Mastership Emily Valentine's brothers were responsible for the formation of the school's first rugby team in c1884. Emily practised with the team and in c1887 she played for the school, scoring a try. The first documented evidence of an attempt to form a purely women's team is from 1891 when a tour of New Zealand by a team of female rugby players was cancelled due to a public outcry. There are also early reports of women's rugby union being played in France (1903) and England (1913)Col Philip Trevor in his book Rugby Football dated 1923 opens with the chapter "The Game’s Popularity – Rugger For Girls". His daughters who were in various stages of "flapperdom" (a 1920s term for the modern and unconventional woman) in 1913 called him to a conference.
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Doggart returned to King’s, sharing rooms with his brother Graham Doggart, and enjoying a rebirth of university life: > 1919 was a most exciting time to be in Cambridge. Undergraduates of mixed > ages poured in. A few had gone up in 1913, joining the Forces at the > outbreak of the War… John Maynard Keynes resigned from the Treasury, > violently disapproving of Lloyd George's policies at the Versailles Peace > Conference, and got back to King’s for the May term of 1919… The Fox-trot, > the One-step and the Waltz dominated the dancing world, and the girls of > Girton and Newnham, duly chaperoned in those conventional times, were > ardently courted… There were the Pitt Club, the Hawks, the Footlights and a > host of friends at King’s and in other colleges, and games of rugger. I did > very little solid work, and of course I fell in love. (ibid, 2002) It was in Keynes’ rooms at King's where friend and writer Peter Lucas introduced Jimmy to a secret society known as the Apostles.
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