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Irish Migration Studies in Latin America Ryan, Hugh FitzGerald. ‘The Development of Rugby in the River Plate Region: Irish Influences ’ 29 The Development of Rugby in the River Plate Region: Irish Influences
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@MISC{Ryan_irishmigration,
author = {Fitzgerald Ryan and Including Roberto Canessa (left and Gustavo Zerbino},
title = {Irish Migration Studies in Latin America Ryan, Hugh FitzGerald. ‘The Development of Rugby in the River Plate Region: Irish Influences ’ 29 The Development of Rugby in the River Plate Region: Irish Influences},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
(Photographer unknown) Origins of the game Two years before the irascible Duke of Wellington [1] scored his final victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium, young Matthew Bloxam entered Rugby School. It is a cliché that Waterloo was in fact won on the playing fields of Eton, England, attesting to the vigorous and barely contained mayhem practised at the time on the sports fields of the English public schools. Sixty-four years later Bloxam wrote his recollections of the game of football as played at Rugby in his times. These games consisted of selected teams of twenty or so, to which others might attach themselves as
