rugby Quotes

“Then a moment’s pause, while both sides look up at the spinning ball. There is flies, straight between the two posts, some five feet above the cross-bar, an unquestioned goal; and a shout of real, genuine joy rings out from the School-house players-up, and faint echo of it comes over the close from the goal-keepers under the Doctor’s wall. A goal in the first hour - such a thing hasn’t been done in the School-house match these five years.”

“Then the Firsts go to Barralong, he spends his first -disastrous- week-end away from home; and his sporting activities take up so much of his time that he finds is increasingly difficult to cope with the demands of schoolwork.”

“Yes it is Rugby which is responsible for many of the troubles which beset Rowan in the next few months. He makes a dangerous enemy of Colin Clitford, a fellow team member. ”

“Rugby is the most important thing in Rowan Price’s life and where he is put into the school First Fifteen, he is overjoyed.”