A very arbitrary selection of 25 fine rugby prints 1870-1930 from www.rugby-pioneers.com

2. Rugby college : the Big-Side

3. « Moeurs Anglaises », French newspaper, 1868

4. Football at Rugby – Harper’s weekly - 1870

5. “ Famous English Football Players”, Boy’s Own Paper, 1881

6. Stade Français vs Rosslyn Park 1892 First international rugby match in continental Europe

7. Stade Français playing at Stade de Courbevoie, 1897

8. Rugby League Trade cards c1900

9. Pascal Laporte, Captain of Bordeaux, 1901

10. « The Moa and the Lion » 1904 New Zealand b British Lions 9-3 (1904) (Wellington, NZ)

11. Wales 1905

12. The « All Blacks » 1905

13. Rugby in the French Army, 1904 Equipe de Football du 78eme - En Touche

14. “ Football Colours of some of our Public Schools”

15. Rugby print by Mich, c1910

16. Aviron Bayonnais 1914 French Champion 1913 (H.O.Roe, F.Forgues…)

17. Perpignan vs Tarbes for « Brennus Shield » 1914 final of French championship in « La Vie Au Grand Air »

18. England b. France, April 1921 in "Le Petit Journal Illustré"

19. “ Captains Courageous” by MEL in Illustrated Sports & Dramatic News, Feb. 1928

20. Rugby at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, by Roowy

21. Ireland b. France at Stade de Colombes, 1925

22. Rugby print by André Galland Advertising for Kina Lillet c1930

23. France b. Ireland in Dublin, 1930 Coach Jules Cadenat makes a wine break at half-time… (true story…)

24. Rugby in Italy, fascist propaganda, c1930

25. « Twickenham from Airplane » by Fougasse, 1931