... RUGBY FOOTBALL. THE fourth war time season was scarcely born when I risked the prophecy in these columns that the Royal Naval Depôt, Devonport, team, was-- or would prove to be-- the best side in the country this season. To date, it has played ana won ...

... RUGBY FOOTBALL. AT Newcastle on Saturday, by a goal and two tries to nil, the South gained its third successive victory over the North. With each of the men engaged playing for his cap, the game was of rather an individual and scrambling order. The ...

... FOOTBALL. RUGBY. Wale, s v. Ihngland. NEVER have England's representatives suffered a more disastrous defeat than they did last Saturday against Wales. The match, the first of the season's Internationals, was played before nearly 20,000 spectators at ...

... RUGBY FOOTBALL. SCOTLAND fulfilled expectations by winning their second match of the season on Saturday, but it cannot be said that they played so well as against Wales. They went up like a rocket and came down like a stick. In the first fifteen minutes ...

... RUGBY FOOTBALL. AFTER the Welsh fifteen's brilliant display at Swansea it was not surprising to find that only one change will be made for the match against Scotland. Evan James is incapacitated through injuries, and his place at half will be taken ...

... FOOTBALL. RUGBY. THE defeat of Blackheath by a combined fifteen from Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, though disappointing enough for the club's supporters, was not altogether a surprise, for Black heath was not at full strength. Amongst the absentees ...

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... Dusseldorf to Rugby A FTER Rugby's match with Rep- ton in July last year. L. G. H. Hingley. the Rugby cricket captain, left to join the R.A.F. Last week he returned to Rugby- to play for the M.C.C. against the School on the occasion of the Tom Brown ...

... hammering. Cheltenham, who had previously been well beaten, the score not representing the difference between the teams, by Rugby at Rugby, outplayed Marlborough by such a crusher as 5 goals and 5 tries to a dropped goal and 2 tries, 40 10. Ten tries to two ...

... RUGBY FOOTBALL. Broadly speaking, the West country is the only English district in which Rugby football has not shown signs of deterioration during the past season and the International Committee will doubtless pay more attention next season to the form ...

... 1 RUGBY FOOTBALL. INASMUCH as the Australian Headquarters team left the field at half-time at Queen's Club I am not sure that I am entitled to include their game with the Royal Naval Depot, Crystal Palace, under the above heading. Such things are not ...

... FOOTBALL. RUGBY. ALTHOUGH cup competitions provide the most exciting matches in football as played under Association laws, they have undoubted drawbacks, and are not in much favour amongst followers of the Rugby game. Neither the Kent nor the Middlesex ...