Rugby is full of mysteries on and off the pitch It is played with an odd-shaped ball. There are two versions. The rules seem to change regularly. Fans of the two games still argue about things that happened over a century ago including who invented it. Award-winning sports history professor Tony Collins cracks many such enigmas.
Tony Collins is emeritus professor of history, whose books include The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby and How Football Began. He has won the Lord Aberdare Prize for sports history book of the year four times, and appeared on many BBC television and radio programmes.
Title: Who Framed William Webb Ellis: (...and other puzzles in rugby history)
Author: Collins, Tony
ISBN: 9781739247607
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Publisher: Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-12
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.2701 kg