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Beating squeeze of Great Freeze

THERE was a time when it was extreme weather that used to disrupt our winter playing schedules, now it is Covid with the ongoing debate about the distribution of points for cancelled games.
Which, in a roundabout way, got me wondering how rugby coped during the Great Freeze of 1963. Snow drifts as high as your house, the telephone wires opposite crashing to ground from the sheer weight of accumulated snow and the sea frozen over down on the south coast.
Between December 23, 1962 and March 6, 1963 Britain was an arctic wasteland.
There was just one National Hunt meeting in all of Britain, at...

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