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15 May 2016

Lest We Forget - Jackie Morkel (South Africa) 15/05/1916

Jan Willem Hurter Morkel was one of those South African rugby players who in one memorable season established a reputation at international level that has never faded.

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15 May 2016

Lest We Forget - Jackie Morkel (South Africa) 15/05/1916

Jan Willem Hurter Morkel was one of those South African rugby players who in one memorable season established a reputation at international level that has never faded.

08 May 2016

From the Deep Vaults...

James Corsan is currently working on a Harlequins Heritage project in connection with the forthcoming 150th anniversary of the founding of the club.

28 April 2016

The Memorial Gate, Twickenham

The Rowland Hill Memorial Gates were first unveiled in 1929 to commemorate the life of Sir George Rowland Hill, at the time rugby's most famous administrator, who had died the previous year.

23 April 2016

150 years of the Glasgow Accies...

Founded on 21st April, 1866 at a meeting held at the Glasgow Academy in Elmbank Street, the Academical Club played its first recorded football match, against West of Scotland FC, in January 1868 at Hamilton Crescent.

21 April 2016

In memory of Fin Todd (21/04/1915)

These words written by the late Frank Keating on the death of Andy Ripley could easily have been written about another tall, charismatic forward for Rosslyn Park, England and the British Isles: Alexander Findlater 'Fin' Todd.

10 April 2016

Young Americans by Stephen Cooper

Barely weeks after the first English Premiership rugby game played in New Jersey, USA by Saracens and London Irish, new evidence has emerged from a club's archives of early American rugby connections in England.

05 April 2016

Back to School - the origins of football and rugby

There were at least seven schools playing their own versions of what was known as 'football' in the early years of the 19th century.

29 March 2016

Trend or tradition?

In this article Richard Steele takes a look at the history of Scottish selections to determine whether this really is as modern a trend as everyone thinks it is...

24 March 2016

My Rugby World Cup by Tim Reynolds

In 2015 I came to Europe on a grave-photographing mission , hunting Olympic gold medalists in Finland, soldiers who died in WWI who had won the VC or distinguished themselves otherwise in Belgium/Northern France, and a potpourri of cricketers, VCs, sportsmen and NZ PMs in Britain.

17 March 2016

INTERVIEW - Raphael Ibanez

Raphael Ibanez, the former French captain, should be known as the king of hookers, since he retired as the most capped hooker in the world with 98 appearances for his country.

14 March 2016

Lest We Forget - Lou Phillips (Wales) 14/03/1916

Arguably no sport requires such a wide and varied range of skills as rugby. It isn't surprising, therefore, that many of the best exponents of the game have also been good at other sports.

01 March 2016

One of Us - William Wavell Wakefield

William Wavell Wakefield is one of the most celebrated English rugby players of all time. His total of 31 caps was an English record for over forty years and he was still being described as England's greatest ever forward in 1983 when he passed away at the age of 85.

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