26th January 1871: the Founding of the Rugby Football Union
On this day in 1871 the Rugby Football Union was founded, when representatives from twenty-one clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant on Cockspur Street. Supposedly representatives from Wasps and Ealing were invited to attend, but both got drunk elsewhere and missed the meeting.
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