They Ran with the Ball: How Rugby Football Began in Australia

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Longman Cheshire, 1993 - Sports & Recreation - 243 pages
Analysis of the origins of rugby in Australia from informal games in Sydney in 1829 to the role of the Southern Rugby Football Union (later, the New South Wales Rugby Football Union) from 1874 onwards. Contains 31 appendices, references, a general index and a club index. The author is a lawyer and sports historian.

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