CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: 'THE CONTAGION WILL SPREAD' CHAPTER 2 FROM FOOTBALL TO RUGBY: 'NEITHER DRIBBLING FISH NOR HANDLING FOWL' CHAPTER 3 THE GAME IS ESTABLISHED:'THE RUNNING BUSINESS' CHAPTER 4 THE CLUBS: 'IN CARDIFF AND DISTRICT SURELY THEIR NAME IS LEGION' CHAPTER 5 ORGANISATION AND PARTICIPATION:'ADMINISTERED BY THE FEW, PLAYED BY THE MANY' CHAPTER 6 RUGBY'S WIDER IMPACT:'FOOTBALL OR LIFE IN CARDIFF' CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSIONS: 'THE NOBLE GAME IS NOT TOTALLY UNKNOWN HERE' APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY
A native of Cardiff, Gwyn Prescott has been involved in rugby for most of his life as a player, administrator and historian. Educated at Cardiff High School, when he captained the Welsh Secondary Schools team in the 1960s, and Cambridge University, Gwyn was awarded an MPhil, on the history of rugby, at the University of Glamorgan. Gwyn recently completed a three-year period as Research Assistant for the International Rugby Board.
"By the 1890s rugby football was contributing to an expressive local, civic, even national consciousness: Cardiffians, who have that endearing habit of equating Cardiff with Wales, were talking of rugby as 'the national game' as early as 1879...Gwyn Prescott's study shows how rugby became a key component of the new urban culture that developed along with it...He traces, from an exploration of a wide array of hitherto unused primary resources, the emergence and organisation of a robust infrastructure of socially inclusive teams and clubs in inner, dockside and suburban Cardiff...the late, great Bleddyn Williams of Cardiff and Wales, a relative of the author's...would have enjoyed reading Gwyn Prescott's book. So will you." Professor Gareth Williams, University of Glamorgan "a solid and original piece of research that contributed to and evaluated knowledge in the history of sport and Wales" Martin Johnes, Swansea University
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