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Rugby Union

19thC
Montague SHERMAN : Atlhetics and Football
(1887 Longmans Green Badminton Library)
(Ed) Rev Francis MARSHALL : Football - The Rugby Union Game (1892 Cassell)

1901-1925
C J B MARRIOTT : The Rugby Union Game
(1903 Routledge)
D GALLAHER & W J STEAD : The Complete Rugby Footballer
(1906 Methuen)
The Book of Football
(1906 Amalgamated Press)
F Nevill PIGGOTT : The Springboks - History of the Tour 1906-7
(1907 Cricket Press)
R A BARR : With the British Team to Maoriland
(1908 Otago daily Times)
E Gwyn NICHOLLS : The Modern Rugby Game and How to Play It
(1908 Health & Strength Ltd)
E H D SEWELL : The Rugby Football Internationals Roll of Honour
(1919 Jack)
D R GENT : Rugby Football
(1922 British Sports Library - Vol 1)
R J PHILLIPS : The Story of Scottish Rugby
(1925 Foulis)

1926-1950
Rowe HARDING : Rugby Reminiscences & Opinions
(1929 Pilot Press)
G T ALLEY : With the British Rugby Team in New Zealand
(1930 Simpson & Williams)
Ivor D DIFFORD : The History of South African Rugby Football 1875-1932
(1933 Speciality Press)
Arthur C SWAN : History of New Zealand Rugby Football - Vol 1 1870-1945
(1948 Reed)

1951-1970
Terry McLEAN : Bob Stuart's All Blacks
(1954 Reed)
O L OWEN : The History of the Rugby Football Union
(1955 Playfair)
Bleddyn WILLIAMS : Rugger - My Life
(1956 Stanley Paul)
J B G THOMAS : The Lions on Trek
(1956 Stanley Paul)
Arthur C SWAN : History of New Zealand Rugby Football - Vol 2 1946-1957
(1958 Reed)
J B G THOMAS : Lions Courageous
(1960 Stanley Paul)
Denis LALANNE : The Great Fight of the French Fifteen
(1960 Reed)
Alex POTTER & Georges DUTHEN : The Rise of French Rugby
(1961 Bailey & Swinfen)
J B G THOMAS : Lions Among the Springboks
(1963 Stanley Paul)
Terry McLEAN : Willie Away
(1964 Herbert Jenkins)
J B G THOMAS : Lions at Bay
(1966 Pelham Books)
Terry McLEAN : All Black Magic
(1968 Reed)
J B G THOMAS : On Trek Again
(1968 Pelham)
U A TITLEY & R McWHIRTER : Centenary History of the Rugby Football Union
(1970 RFU)
John BILLOT : History of Welsh International Rugby
(1970 Ron Jones)

1971 - 1990
J B G THOMAS : The Roaring Lions
(1971 Pelham)
Terry McLEAN : They Missed the Bus
(1973 Reed)
Sean DIFFLEY : The Men in Green
(1973 Pelham)
J B G THOMAS : The Greatest Lions
(1974 Pelham)
Edmund VAN ESBECK : One Hundred Years of Irish Rugby
(1974 Gill & Macmillan)
Terry McLEAN : All Blacks Come Back
(1975 Pelham)
J B G THOMAS : Trial of Strength
(1977 Pelham)
Terry McLEAN : Mourie's All Blacks
(1979 Hodder & Stoughton)
John REASON & Gareth WILLIAMS : Fields of Praise
(1980 Wales UP)
Sandy THORBURN : The History of Scottish Rugby
(1980 Johnston & Bacon)
J B G THOMAS : WoundedLions
(1981 Pelham)
R H CHESTER & N A C McMILLAN : Centenary - 100 Years of All Black Rugby
(1984 Blandford)
Jack POLLARD : Australian Rugby Union - The Game and the Players
(1984 ABC)
D J WILLIAMS : 1950 - The Year of the Lions
(1988 PP)
Lappe LAUBSCHER & Gideon NIEMANN : The Carolin Papers
(1990 Rugbyana £100)

After 1991
Warwick ROGER : Old Heroes
(1991 Hodder & Stoughton)
Gareth WILLIAMS : 1905 and All That
(1991 Gomer)
(Ed) Ian ROBERTSON : The Official Book of the Rugby World Cup (1991 Stanley Paul)
Greg RYAN : Forerunners of the All Blacks
(1993 Canterbury UP)
The Story of the Rugby World Cup
(1995 Royston Lamond)

READING
John M JENKINS : A Rugby Compendium - An Authoritative Guide to the Literature
of Rugby Football
(1998 The British Library £30)