Word: ruggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the Eastern Rugby Union of America held in New York over the weekend a new constitution was adopted to help boost the game in America. At the same time measures were adopted for arranging future tours of English rugger teams in this country...
Yale and Harvard have been playing football, and on British soil. To be sure the game was not under the rules revised each year for the colleges of the United States. The game was English rugby, "rugger" for short, and it was the climax of football week in Bermuda. But the boys who were the crimson and the blue were students at Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven, Conn., off where the sun is warm for their Spring vacation...
Twenty Varsity rugby players have been invited to play a series of matches at Bermuda during spring vacation, James A. Potter '34, president of the Harvard Rugby Club said yesterday. The Bermuda Athletic Association which extended the invitation has promised all expenses on the island, but the rugger men wishing to go on the trip must pay their steamship fare...
...Rugby was invented the schoolboy terminology "Rugger." Other schools still say "footer" for football, which each school plays according to its own rules...