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The day Emily became the ‘suffragette’ of Rugby Union

THE centenary celebrations of the Women’s Suffragette movement have been much in evidence this week which set me thinking –who were the early pioneers and heroines of women’s rugby?
I was aware of a famous series of eight football games played between Scotland and England women’s teams on a tour around Scotland and northern England in May and June 1881 but only recently has it come to light that the final two games were almost certainly played under Rugby Union laws.
Six matches into the series and the ladies pitched up at the Cattle Market Inn Athletic Grounds at St...

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