... Rawing Club a length. Football Challenge.—The Gipsies Football Club are willing to play any club about Manchester two matches; Rugby Rules, filteen or twenty men a-side, any date except October 9 November January or March 4. Communications to be addressed ...

... will Ite lack of interesting eom]>etions. The International match Ite- wcen England and Scotland, according to the rules the Rugby Union, will have to decided in London, and that according to the Association game in Glasgow. Dublin in all probability will ...

... participate in that noble ami scientific ...

... THE RUGBY UNION GAME. Relative to the above, the following letter appears in Ihe Field:— Sir, —Yon published letter of mine at the end of last season on the subject of scoring at football, and, now that the season is close upon us, 1 again venture to ...

... demerits of Rugby and Association football; but may say that think it very hard that Manchester athletes should compelled either to take outdoor exercise during the winter months, or else to run the risk of seriously injuring themselves with Rugby football ...

... MANCHESTER v. RUGBY SCHOOL. This match was played at Rugby on Saturday last, the 16th iust. The Rugby School rules were played, including hacking; but, notwithstanding this disadvantage, Manchester had much the best of it, scoring two punts out and two ...

... on Saturday last, and resulted in favour of the Grasshoppers, who scored three rouges: Stanley, nil. [October 23,1875. THE RUGBY UNION. THE PROPOSED ALTERATIONS. Wednesday evening the annual October meeting of the English Union was held at the Westminster ...

... regretted that ‘rouge’ and other inexplicable terms still crop up in the accounts Rugby football published in the sporting papers. The term ‘rouge’ has no existence either at Rugby or in the Union Code; why will clubs belonging to the Union persist in using ...

... ] THE PIIOPROSED RUGBY AMENDMEXTS. To the Editor of the Athletic News. Sir, —When 1 saw in your paper of the 16th inst. a paragraph stating that an amendment to the rules regards scoring would proposed the annual meeting of the Rugby Football Union, 1 ...

... have been, but they were nevertheless far too powerful for their opponents, whom they vani|uished by live goals to nothing. Rugby School and Oxford met the ground of the former, Oxford being only represented by fifteen men, though it had been arranged to ...

... the eleven he greatly distinguished himself as bowler taking five wickets in each innings in the annual match Marlborough v. Rugby. Leaving the scenes of his early triumphs for Trinity College, Cambridge, we find him competing in the college 100 yards, which ...

... will sui>crsede those of the Rugby I nion to any considerable extent in this district, for, although the objections raised by Mr. Norris and his friends are doubtless to some extent well founded, the popularity ol the Rugby game indicates decided preference ...