First Ever Rugby Game: Where and When?
Celine Johns
2025-05-08 02:24:33
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Edinburgh is right at the heart of rugby history, with the world’s first rugby international played at Raeburn Place in 1871, between Scotland and England.
Faustino Kassulke
2025-05-08 00:28:26
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The first rugby international took place at Raeburn Place on 27 March 1871. The match came about as a result of a challenge made by the captains of the five senior Scottish clubs - West of Scotland FC, Edinburgh Academicals FC, Merchistonian FC, Glasgow Academicals FC and St Salvator FC (St Andrew’s) – to the footballers of England to play a match “twenty-a-side, Rugby rules, either in Edinburgh or Glasgow...” Raeburn Place was used as the preferred home ground for Scotland for the next 25 years.
Adriel Spinka
2025-05-07 23:46:45
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The first international game of rugby was played here in Scotland 150 years ago. On 27 March 1871 Scotland faced England at Edinburgh’s Raeburn Place. A crowd of 4,000 spectators watched the match which was played on the grounds at Raeburn Place in the Edinburgh suburb of Stockbridge.
Irma Murray
2025-05-07 22:48:13
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Rugby School in Warwickshire has always been credited with starting the game of rugby.
It is said that in 1823 a 16 year old with no regard for the rules of football, picked the ball up in his arms and ran with it.
By this time the popularity of the game was spreading, and in the same year the first ever international rugby game was played between England and Scotland.
Just 48 years after that first game at a school in Rugby, Scotland were the first side to win an international match.
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