Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football
Collins, Tony
Mangan, J.A. (University Of Strathclyde)
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Hardback
304 pages
Illustrations, Bibliography, Index
Published: 1998
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
ISBN / EAN: 0714648671
This volume looks at rugby in late Victorian and Edwardian England and examines how class conflict tore rugby apart and led to the creation of rugby league, when a game for public schoolboys was transformed into a sport which became entirely identified w
