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The tangled web of deceit Aussies and Kiwis spin over rugby union's origins

Antipodeans are wasting their time in striving to claim the history of the game in the Southern Hemisphere. It started in South Africa...

by Greg Smith on 10 May 2008

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'The search for this ''Holy Grail'' of rugby union has left me cold, especially with regard to Southern Hemisphere claims to the game'

The history of rugby union - everything you say it is, it isn't.

The game is fundamentally an English invention (yeah, yeah... get over it!). There is some dispute of its exact origins, but Rugby School is a top contender for the home of the game since circa 1823. From here, the sport travelled around the world with British colonies taking to it like ducks to water.

Today, with bitter rivalry between teams from the Southern Hemisphere - New Zealand's All Blacks, the Australian Wallabies and South Africa's Springboks - the claims to 'ownership' of the history of the game in the South are fierce.


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