French Rugby Football

Author : Philip Dine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781847880321

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French Rugby Football by Philip Dine Pdf

As France's oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own image. A major site for the construction of masculine, class-based regional and national identities, France's tradition of 'Champagne rugby' continues to be as subject to dramatic upheavals as the society that produced it. The game's precocious professionalism and endemic violence have not infrequently caused the French to be cast as international pariahs. Such isolation, exacerbated by internal politics, has led the French not only to encourage the extension of the sport beyond its British imperial base (into Italy and Romania, for instance), but also to engage in some uncomfortable tactical alliances, most obviously with apartheid South Africa.Taking his analysis both on and off the field, the author tackles these issues and much more: the relationship of sport and the state (including particularly the Vichy period and the period under de Gaulle); professionalization; the persistence of colonial and postcolonial structures (including the role of ethnic minorities); and gender issues - especially masculine identities. At the same time he links the evolution of the sport to the broader context of French socio-economic, political and cultural history.This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural analysis of sport or French popular culture.

Author : Frank Perrin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9782322400737

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Rugby League, Rugby of The Future by Frank Perrin Pdf

Rugby League is a game of dreams. In an endless display of dance moves, thirteen performers on each side of the field provide a brilliant spectacle of multiple passes, devastating tackles and magnificent tries. As well as many thousands of supporters in the north of England, rugby league enjoys considerable success in Australia with the NRL, and in New-Zealand, Papua New-Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Great Britain as a whole. It is also played in the US, Canada, Jamaica, Russia, France, Ukraine, Lithuania, Malta, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Estonia, Greece, Morocco, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa, Lebanon, Norway, Italy, Germany and Holland. It is a popular Rugby "par excellence". Discover the fourth dimension of rugby and the hidden ans mysterious world of rugby league beyond. And with the help of previously unpublished files recovered among 17km of archives, this book reveals how rugby league was banned in September 1940 in France, and by who....

Author : Mike Rylance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1901347257

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Forbidden Game by Mike Rylance Pdf

Author : Mike Rylance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 199933390X

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The Struggle and the Daring by Mike Rylance Pdf

Author : John Nauright,Tony Collins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317215257

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The Rugby World in the Professional Era by John Nauright,Tony Collins Pdf

Twenty years of professionalism has seen rugby union undergo dramatic transformations, from changes to everyday training cultures to the growth of the Rugby World Cup into one of the largest global sporting events. The Rugby World in the Professional Era is the first book to examine the effect that professionalism has had across a number of different aspects of the game and the wider socio-cultural significance of these changes through case studies from across the globe. Drawing on contributions from scholars from across the rugby-playing world, the book explores the role of rugby's professionalisation through a number of social-scientific lenses, including: labour migration race and indigenous populations the globalisation of the game mega-event management male sexualities media representations of rugby - from broadcasting matches to rugby in museums and on stage and screen Offering insights into under-researched areas of the sport, such as the growth of Rugby Sevens into an Olympic sport, and providing the most up-to-date recent history of the sport available, The Rugby World in the Professional Era is essential reading for anyone with an academic interest in rugby, and any student or scholar with interests in sports history, sports sociology, sport management or the economics of professional sport.

Author : Peter Bills
Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838956050

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Le Coq by Peter Bills Pdf

From French rugby's origins in Le Havre, (as an English export in the late nineteenth century) to the Catalan coast, acclaimed rugby writer Peter Bills travels the length and breadth of this vast country visiting not only the big cities but those regional heartlands of the game such as Toulouse, Bordeaux and Clermont as well as clubs in the Basque country, to reveal a country whose deep love of rugby has created a culture and playing style like no other. Featuring exclusive interviews with many of the greatest international players to have played club rugby in France, from Jonny Wilkinson to Dan Carter, as well as French legends of the sport, from Serge Blanco and Jean-Pierre Rives to Antoine Dupont, Le Coq: A History of French rugby brings to life the passion, colour, excitement, characters, anecdotes, locations and great moments of French rugby's near 150 years of existence, just as it prepares to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Former French Grand Slam captain Jacques Fouroux talked of 'Rugby; the game, the life': this b'An impassioned tour around France which is best enjoyed with a bottle of red ... or two.' The Sunday Times 'I've knownook will show you exactly what he meant.

Author : Huw Richards
Publisher : Random House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781780573281

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A Game for Hooligans by Huw Richards Pdf

Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now. A Game for Hooligans brings the game's colourful story up to date to include the 2007 World Cup. It covers all of the great matches, teams and players but also explores the social, political and economic changes that have affected the course of rugby's development. It is an international history, covering not only Britain and France but also the great rugby powers of the southern hemisphere and other successful rugby nations, including Argentina, Fiji and Japan. Contained within are the answers to many intriguing questions concerning the game, such as why 1895 is the most important date in both rugby-union and rugby-league history and how New Zealand became so good and have remained so good for so long. There is also a wealth of anecdotes, including allegations of devil-worship at a Welsh rugby club and an account of the game's contribution to the Cuban Revolution. This is a must-read for any fan of the oval ball.

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134023349

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A Social History of English Rugby Union by Tony Collins Pdf

From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.

Author : Timothy J.L. Chandler,John Nauright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135227296

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Making the Rugby World by Timothy J.L. Chandler,John Nauright Pdf

This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the British Empire (France, Italy, Japan and the USA). The role of women in rugby is examined and the subsequent development of women's rugby as one of the fastest growing sports for women in Europe, North America and Australasia in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section analyses the impact of commercialisation, professionalisation and media on rugby and the impact on the historic rugby culture linked to an ethos of amateurism.

Author : John Daniell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407027166

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Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary by John Daniell Pdf

John Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game. In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional, John emigrated to France where he played for a decade in top competitions. His team ricocheted between fear and ecstasy, as they battled to save the club from relegation and their careers from the scrap heap. Now he lifts the lid on the dark world of the journeyman player, where losing a home game is considered a crime, coaches and club owners will do anything to win, and agents ruthlessly manipulate players. His compelling confessions are both shocking and funny, taking you behind the scenes, onto the field and into the very heart of the scrum.

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408843727

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The Oval World by Tony Collins Pdf

Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the world cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud or a controversy. The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first century,now played in well over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an obscure English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to France, Argentina, Japan and the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last world cup final. And how American football – and other games such as Australian, Canadian and Gaelic football – emerged from rugby and highlight just how much the modern gridiron game owes to its English cousin. Featuring the great moments in the game's history and its great names – such as Jonah Lomu, David Duckham, Serge Blanco, Billy Boston and David Campese alongside Rupert Brooke, King George V, Boris Karloff, Charles de Gaulle and Nelson Mandela – The Oval World investigates just what it is about rugby that enables it to survive and thrive in countries with very different traditions and cultures. This is the the definitive world history of a truly global rugby.

Author : Gavin Willacy
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Football players
ISBN : 1785314025

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No Helmets Required by Gavin Willacy Pdf

The remarkable story of 20 young American football players, convinced to compete internationally in rugby--a game they'd never heard of In 1950s Los Angeles, entrepreneur Mike Dimitro convinced a group of young American athletes to fly around the world playing rugby league, a game that was entirely new to them. Miraculously, the American All Stars competed with the best Australia, New Zealand, and France had to offer, and shocked the locals with some stunning victories. This story tells not only of the media circus and celebrity adventures, but also the All Stars' fights and flings, tragic illnesses, and farcical court cases. Dimitro's mission to establish a rugby league in the United States failed in spectacular fashion--though one All Star went on to win the Super Bowl, one became a Hollywood stuntman, and another an Olympic champion. The emergence of their remarkable story coincides with the United States's first ever qualification for the Rugby League World Cup, in 2013.

Author : Bruce Davies,Julien Baker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000369953

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The Dynamics of Modern Rugby by Bruce Davies,Julien Baker Pdf

The modern game of rugby football has become gladiatorial, whereby muscular athletic players are involved in a form of collision chess with sophisticated defences smothering the offensive skills that were at one time a more dominant feature of the game. The contributors to this book consider the physical, mental and nutritional demands of the game in its present form and how best to acquire these attributes in the most effective and efficient manner. The inevitable injuries that are associated with collision are considered in terms of prevention and the most effective forms of treatment. New concepts to improve exercise capacity, game preparation and recovery are discussed in conjunction with the modern coaching theories of the game. The possible changes to the rules are discussed by two outstanding International referees, and the future vision for World Rugby is outlined by the President of World Rugby. The Dynamics of Modern Rugby is both a unique and contemporary addition to the rugby literature and, as such, is essential reading for any student, researcher, coach, sports scientist, physiotherapist, nutritionist or clinician with an interest in rugby.

Author : Henri Garcia
Publisher : London League Publications
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Rugby League football
ISBN : 1903659345

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Champagne Rugby by Henri Garcia Pdf

The 1950s was the golden age of French rugby league. After being banned by the collaborative Vichy regime during the Second World War, the sport quickly rebuilt and in 1951 a French team toured Australia. This text presents the story of the famous tours of '51, '55 and '60 and also gives a French viewpoint on the game's origin.

Author : Bertrand Hourcade,Christian Jeanpierre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2856083552

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Dictionary of rugby by Bertrand Hourcade,Christian Jeanpierre Pdf