Exhibition: The Rugby Football Union at 150

Where

London

What

Culture

When

17 Dec 2021 - 28 Feb 2022

UNTIL Monday 28 February

On 26th January 1871 the representatives of twenty-one football clubs met at the Pall Mall restaurant in central London to form the Rugby Football Union. 150 years later this special exhibition chronicles the colourful history of one of the world's oldest sporting institutions.

The exhibition describes how a small group of men created the union and helped arrange the world's first international football contest. It describes how Twickenham Stadium saved English Rugby and the Red Roses blazed a trail for the women's game. Finally, it describes ...

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