Firsts; Lasts and Onlys: Rugby

Name: Firsts; Lasts and Onlys: Rugby | A Truly Wonderful Collection of Rugby Trivia
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A Truly Wonderful Collection of Rugby Trivia

Paul Donnelley(Autor*in)

Pitch Publishing Ltd

Erschienen am 15. August 2015

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
THE FIRSTS
First person to take the ball in his arms and run with it
First laws of the games
First regular manufacturers of rugby balls
First mention of rugby in Wales
First mention of rugby in Scotland
First mention of rugby in a novel
First open rugby club
First sport to derive directly from rugby
First national organisation for rugby
First international rugby match
First Scotsman to play for England
First Varsity rugby match
First recorded game of rugby on American soil
First game of American football
First brothers to play for England in same match
First international player to die
First Test captain to kill himself
First match at Lansdowne Road
First full back
First fly half
First standard three-quarter line
First rugby match under floodlights
First Calcutta Cup match
First try scored by Ireland
First meeting of the Irish Rugby Football Union
First England Test appearance by a player still at school
First England v Wales international
First outing for the Wales scarlet jersey
First Wales international victory
First Wales try scorer
First double international player at rugby and cricket
First man to captain England at rugby and cricket
First rugby sevens tournament
First international team to ask the referee to penalise its own error
First international rugby organisation
First recorded mention of Triple Crown
First international match at Cardiff Arms Park
First abandoned rugby Test
First referee's whistle
First Wales "home" match not played in Wales
First "fantasy rugby team"
First rugby tour of Australia and New Zealand
First winners of the English County Championship
First tour match by an overseas team in Britain
First performance of haka
First international by an overseas team in Britain
First England Test match against non-national opponents
First Wales international to die
First Welsh player bought by an English club
First time Wales beat England
First Test match held at Crown Flatt
First captain of the Barbarians
First time Scotland won the Triple Crown
First international played in southern hemisphere
First official try scored by a British Isles tourist
First New Zealand player sent off
First Triple Crown won by Ireland
First rugby league clubs
First rugby league champions
First winners of rugby league Challenge Cup
First player to score in a Challenge Cup Final
First try-scorer in a Challenge Cup Final
First brothers to score tries for England in same match
First Welsh rugby union player to win a British Isles (Lions) cap
First rugby union international to win the Victoria Cross
First England international to become an MP
First rugby league club to win the double
First player to score a Challenge Cup Final hat-trick
First rugby union Test series won by South Africa
First father and son to play for England
First international rugby league match
First British touring player sent off
First all-ticket Test match
First winners of rugby league county cups
First rugby union All Blacks tour of Britain
First team to beat the All Blacks on British soil
First international rugby union sides to adopt numbered shirts
First black man to play rugby union for England
First rugby league Test match
First overseas rugby league tour to Britain
First Australian rugby league club
First winners of the Sydney Premiership
First club to retain the Sydney Premiership title
First New Zealand-Australia rugby league Test match
First game of rugby league in Australia
First game of rugby league in New Zealand
First Ashes Test
First Australian rugby league tour of Britain
First English tour of Australasia
First rugby union match at Twickenham
First rugby union Five Nations match
First home nation beaten by France in rugby union Five Nations match
First father and son to represent Ireland
First Wales rugby union international killed in the First World War
First regular memorial match established for a war hero
First Northampton player to captain England
First rugby league four-figure transfer fee
First use of term British Lions (rugby league)
First time three pairs of brothers played in a rugby union international
First rugby union player sent off in an international
First rugby union match at Murrayfield
First team to beat England at Twickenham
First Middlesex Sevens competition
First rugby league Challenge Cup Final at Wembley
First rugby league player to score at Wembley
First Wembley rugby league try-scorer
First rugby league club to win the Sydney Premiership five times in succession
First time Wales beat England at Twickenham
First rugby league player to score in every match of the season
First London rugby league club
First rugby union player to score from full back in the International Championship
First rugby league player to score more than 400 points in a season
First British club side to beat the All Blacks
First televised rugby match (rugby union)
First rugby union international to die in the Second World War
First Russian to play for England
First prince to play for England
First England victory over the All Blacks
First Wales international killed in Second World War
First rugby union v rugby league match
First winner of rugby league's Lance Todd Trophy
First reigning monarch to attend a rugby league match
First player to win the Lance Todd Trophy whilst on the losing team
First occasion Wales wore white shorts in a rugby union international
First club to appear in three consecutive rugby league Challenge Cup finals
First televised rugby league match
First televised rugby league Challenge Cup Final
First black professional coach in any British sport (rugby league)
First black player to win a Great Britain rugby league cap
First drawn rugby league Challenge Cup Final
First player to win the Lance Todd Trophy twice
First black rugby league British Lion
First rugby league player to score more than 35 tries on a Lions tour
First British player to score four tries in one game against New Zealand
First rugby world cup (rugby league)
First British journalists to report a rugby union Lions tour
First player to play for British Lions and against them
First rugby union International Championship to end the season after it started
First rugby league club to install under soil heating
First pair of rugby league players to share the Lance Todd Trophy
First winners of rugby league BBC2 Floodlit Trophy
First rugby league fixtures on Sunday
First rugby union replacement
First international rugby union replacement
First rugby union replacement for Ireland
First rugby union replacement for England
First Roman Catholic priest to play international rugby league
First England rugby union coach
First sponsored rugby league World Cup
First Welsh rugby union player to captain British Lions
First winners of rugby league Player's No 6 Trophy
First British rugby union national knockout competition
First black player to captain a British national team in any sport (rugby league)
First rugby league player to feature on This is Your Life
First rugby league player to receive a Challenge Cup winner's medal and a Sydney Grand Final winner's medal
First streaker at a rugby football match (rugby union)
First rugby league player to captain three different clubs to Challenge Cup victory at Wembley
First England Test player sent off
First streaker at a rugby league Challenge Cup Final
First Irish player sent off in a Test
First Welsh player sent off in a Test
First Grand Slam by the All Blacks
First team to be Second Division champions twice
First rugby league State of Origin winner
First black rugby union Springbok
First Test appearance by Rob Andrew
First rugby league Challenge Cup Final to raise £1million receipts
First red card shown at rugby union World Cup Final
First rugby union World Cup Final
First national sporting hall of fame in the UK (rugby league)
First occasion Swing Low Sweet Chariot was sung at an England game
First England Test match on a Sunday
First player capped for Ireland after representing another country
First occasion Flower Of Scotland was played as Scotland's rugby anthem
First England rugby union player to win 50 caps
First England "blood bin" replacement
First rugby league Super League
First major sporting event to take place in Africa
First time rugby union World Cup held in one country
First foreign rugby union coach appointed by Ireland
First rugby union v rugby league match under rugby league rules
First player to score a rugby league try for a rugby union team
First rugby league player to score a hat-trick at Wembley
First rugby league club to play at Twickenham
First rugby league club to win the rugby union Middlesex Sevens
First Super League champions
First season of summer rugby league
First England tactical replacement
First time England had a sponsor's name on shirt
First yellow card (sin bin) shown at international rugby union
First Super League Grand Final winners
First time England did not wear white shirts
First Irish player sent to the sin bin
First rugby union player to score 1,000 international points
First rugby union club to retain the Heineken Cup
First yellow card shown at rugby union World Cup Final
First club to win the rugby league Challenge Cup and Super League Grand Final in the same season
First rugby league Challenge Cup Final played in Wales
First man to play in the rugby union and cricket World Cup finals tournaments in the same year
First Triple Crown winners
First rugby league club sponsored by a film
First rugby league player to compete with an opponent's tooth in his head
First rugby league Challenge Cup Final at the new Wembley stadium
First Challenge Cup Final to feature a foreign team
First rugby league player to score a try at the new Wembley Stadium
First rugby team to put their Twitter names on their shirts
First rugby sevens match at North Pole
THE LASTS
Last 20-a-side rugby matches
Last player to captain England at both cricket and rugby
Last time goals counted for more than tries
Last rugby league line-out
Last international rugby union side to adopt numbered shirts
Last 15-a-side rugby league match
Last rugby league match to feature rucks and mauls
Last rugby league club to lose every fixture in a season
Last rugby union international to win the Victoria Cross
Last time rugby union was played at the Olympic Games
Last rugby league club to win All Four Cups
Last of rugby league's "loose" loose forward
Last time Richard Burton played rugby union
Last time an entire side left the field during a rugby union international
Last time five brothers played on the same first-class rugby union team
Last reigning British monarch to attend a rugby league Challenge Cup Final
Last time Britain won the rugby league Ashes
Last England Test match against non-national opponents
Last British rugby league captain to lift the World Cup
Last Test match of Barry John
Last of rugby league four-tackle rule in Britain
Last Test match of Gareth Edwards
Last "great folk memory"
Last winners of rugby league BBC2 Floodlit Trophy
Last commentary by Eddie Waring
Last rugby league Challenge Cup Final replay
Last Subbuteo table rugby team
Last time Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers met in the Yorkshire Cup Final
Last England debutant captain
Last Challenge Cup Final attended by a royal
Last Test appearance by Tony Ward
Last rugby league Sydney Grand Final at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Last miner to play for Wales (rugby union)
Last abandoned rugby Test (rugby union)
Last winners of rugby league county cups
Last rugby union World Cup in amateur era
Last Five Nations match
Last rugby league Challenge Cup Final at the Empire Stadium, Wembley
Last rugby union Test match at Athletic Park
Last rugby match to attract more than 100,000 spectators (rugby union)
Last match at Lansdowne Road
Last pair of players to share the Lance Todd Trophy
Last Test played by Pacific Islanders
THE ONLYS
Only football club to be a founder member of both the Football Association and the Rugby Football Union
Only rugby international initiated by a loss at soccer
Only player to captain England in each of his Test matches
Only player to represent Scotland at rugby and football
Only international cancelled due to a dropped ball
Only one-armed rugby player to score thirteen conversions out of thirteen
Only player to wear a monocle during matches
Only man to play for two nations in the Home Nations Championships
Only time a side conceded no points in the Home Nations Championships
Only England player to score three tries and finish on losing side
Only Challenge Cup Final in which a drop-goal scored 4 points
Only man to captain and coach British Lions on same tour
Only Scottish international killed in the Boer war
Only rugby football Test match in which both captains and the referee were Scottish internationals
Only 12-a-side rugby league Test match
Only international team Ireland have played and never beaten
Only policeman to force a change in the laws
Only man who played Test rugby after refereeing a Test match
Only major sport with 13 players a side
Only first class rugby league club to lose every fixture in the club's history
Only Scotsman to win three Triple Crowns
Only Welshman to play in winning Welsh rugby union and league teams against New Zealand
Only Welsh rugby union international killed by a poisoned arrow
Only "Family Championship of the UK"
Only international to die before his 20th birthday
Only Test match played in four quarters
Only 10-man team to win the rugby league Ashes
Only rugby international killed by a rhinoceros
Only first-class rugby league player to win the Victoria Cross
Only England rugby union international to win the Victoria Cross
Only international rugby league player to go out to play bare-chested
Only rugby union international to win an Olympic Gold medal
Only nation to retain an Olympic rugby union title
Only rugby union player to win gold medals for two different countries
Only national newspaper to fail to report on a Test match because its correspondent was at a hopscotch match
Only England hooker to hitch a ride to an international in a coal lorry
Only joint try awarded in international rugby union history
Only person to play rugby union for Wales and cricket for England
Only rugby league club to have eight incarnations
Only time the All Blacks were beaten by schoolboys
Only man to play cricket and rugby Tests for New Zealand
Only man to play and officiate cricket and rugby Tests
Only rugby league goal kicked from a distance of more than 75 yards
Only British forward to appear in five Ashes-winning squads
Only Rugby League Championship declared void
Only Roman Catholic priest to have played international rugby
Only time three consecutive Challenge Cup finals have been attended by royalty
Only country to field two rugby union teams in full internationals on the same day
Only award-winning playwright and novelist to have signed as a semi-professional rugby league player to pay his art school fees
Only film about rugby league nominated for an Oscar
Only British rugby football match to attract more than 100,000 spectators
Only winners of rugby league ITV Floodlit Competition
Only time Wales played a rugby union Test match with trial jerseys
Only rugby league player to play a Test match with a broken arm
Only occasion National Anthem not played at a Twickenham Test
Only winners of rugby league Bottom Fourteen Competition
Only cup final appearance by Doncaster
Only club to win BBC2 Floodlit Trophy three times in succession
Only rugby league club to win eleven Sydney Premierships in a row
Only British Prime Minister to lose an eye playing rugby
Only referee to officiate at two royal Challenge Cup finals
Only rugby union player to captain Wales before reaching age of 21
Only rugby league player to have a dual carriageway and a play named after him
Only five-way tie in the rugby union Five Nations tournament
Only England rugby tour cancelled because of a kidnap threat
Only winners of rugby league Captain Morgan Trophy
Only winners of rugby league Club Championship
Only rugby union international killed by lightning during a first class match
Only Blue Peter presenter to share a bath with future Great Britain rugby league coach Malcolm Reilly
Only rugby union team to beat the All Blacks on the "Grand Slam" tour
Only single match to have both a play and a book written about it
Only rugby league player to make six representative trips down under
Only first class British rugby league team to win all its games in a season
Only player to represent three countries
Only rugby league club named after a lager
Only rugby league Challenge Cup Final result predicted in a West End play
Only club to win the rugby league Challenge Cup eight times in succession
Only club to win the Rugby League Championship seven times in succession
Only club to do the double six times in succession
Only international rugby union try scored in less than 10 seconds
Only time England did not wear white shorts
Only brothers to play against each other in a rugby union World Cup match
Only Six Nations side to beat Scotland on first meeting
Only son of an England Test cricketer and first-class footballer to play first-class cricket, rugby union, rugby league
Only referee to officiate at two rugby union World Cup finals
Only rugby player to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award
Only rugby union fan to cut off his testicles to celebrate a win
Only rugby league club part owned by Russell Crowe
Only rugby league team relegated from Super League without finishing bottom
Only player to win the rugby league Lance Todd Trophy three times
Only international rugby captain convicted of murder (rugby union)
Only Test won by Pacific Islanders
Only occasion clubs from one town have held the FA Cup and rugby league Challenge Cup simultaneously
Only player to be sent off in the Varsity match
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