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| Blog Name: | rugby-pioneers.com |
| Url: | http://rugby-pioneers.blogs.com/rugby/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | rugby, history, memorabilia |
| Description: | "rugby-pioneers" is about rugby memorabilia and rugby history. Actually, I am quite fascinated by the early days of Football Rugby, i.e. between 1870 and 1930s. I am searching for prints, postcards, chromo, books... any kind of pictures that can tell something about rugby history and early ruggers or rugby pioneers... I will post on a regular basis pics from my own collection. |
| Popularity: | 44 Followers |
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Farewell South Africa...
From a European perspective, 2009 rugby season will end tomorrow with the third and final test match between British & Irish Lions vs SA Springboks in Jo'burg... then waiting for 2009-2010 big circus domestic championship (Top14 in France) to start again mid August... And also waiting for South Africa to play in Paris next November (ok, that's way ahead...)... Time to say "goodbye" !So, here is another tribute to South African rugby, displaying a colourful series of cigarette cards issued in 1933 by United Tobacco. There are 65 cards in
From a European perspective, 2009 rugby season will end tomorrow with the third and final test match between British & Irish Lions vs SA Springboks in Jo'burg... then waiting for 2009-2010 big circus domestic championship (Top14 in France) to start again mid August... And also waiting for South Africa to play in Paris next November (ok, that's way ahead...)... Time to say "goodbye" !So, here is another tribute to South African rugby, displaying a colourful series of cigarette cards issued in 1933 by United Tobacco. There are 65 cards in
Lion taming...
Here is one of my favorite comic postcards, published in New Zealand in 1905 after that historical 9-3 win over British Lions in Wellington...Caption reads : New Zealand footballers at home kicking the 'Lion' over his own goal !... not to forget an Australian wallaby ready to hit him back...There's a lot in this cartoon... the distress of British Lions after their last minute defeat yesterday in South Africa, the supremacy of Southern Hemisp
Here is one of my favorite comic postcards, published in New Zealand in 1905 after that historical 9-3 win over British Lions in Wellington...Caption reads : New Zealand footballers at home kicking the 'Lion' over his own goal !... not to forget an Australian wallaby ready to hit him back...There's a lot in this cartoon... the distress of British Lions after their last minute defeat yesterday in South Africa, the supremacy of Southern Hemisp
The pleasure of Catalan wine...
Hummm... shared some fine wine at lunch time with two sports afficionados... Red wine from the French side of lovely Catalonia, country of French 2009 Champion USA Perpignan... and country of this "Trilles" - a blend of red wine, quinine and tonic water -... a popular "aperitif" drink in these 20s and 30s... from a time when advertisers were very keen to associate rugby and alcoho
Hummm... shared some fine wine at lunch time with two sports afficionados... Red wine from the French side of lovely Catalonia, country of French 2009 Champion USA Perpignan... and country of this "Trilles" - a blend of red wine, quinine and tonic water -... a popular "aperitif" drink in these 20s and 30s... from a time when advertisers were very keen to associate rugby and alcoho
"Of course we won the game"
Since I started this website in 2005, I've been paying regular tributes to David Gallaher, captain of the 1905-06 "Original" All Blacks who died of wounds in Belgium in 1917 during WW1... As you know, there's now a trophy named after Dave Gallaher which is contested between New Zealand and France to reward the team winning a series of test matches. This year, the Gallaher Trophy flies back to France for the first time... by the na
Since I started this website in 2005, I've been paying regular tributes to David Gallaher, captain of the 1905-06 "Original" All Blacks who died of wounds in Belgium in 1917 during WW1... As you know, there's now a trophy named after Dave Gallaher which is contested between New Zealand and France to reward the team winning a series of test matches. This year, the Gallaher Trophy flies back to France for the first time... by the na
Private Joke...
Cartoonist Fougasse knew it already... posing for a team rugby picture could require years of intense practice... and so do these 1920s ruggers (published in Punch Magazine)...Captions read (larger picture here) :- On the Command "Prepare to be photographied"- Tenge the legs in order to provide an exaggerated impression of their muscular development- Raise the soulders to increase the apparent width of the chest- And fold the arms so that the muscles of each are forced
Cartoonist Fougasse knew it already... posing for a team rugby picture could require years of intense practice... and so do these 1920s ruggers (published in Punch Magazine)...Captions read (larger picture here) :- On the Command "Prepare to be photographied"- Tenge the legs in order to provide an exaggerated impression of their muscular development- Raise the soulders to increase the apparent width of the chest- And fold the arms so that the muscles of each are forced
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