Rugger

There were also "Rugger" teams in the Division, and later a Brigade Hockey team was formed.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

In the world of "Rugger" the Battalion's career was one triumphal march, but the end accomplished cannot be summed up in figures, adverse or the reverse.

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

In the middle, haughty, self-conscious, with sleepy-looking but watchful eyes, sat the captain of the House, Lovelace major, in many ways the finest athlete Fernhurst ever produced, who had already got his County cap and played "Rugger" for Richmond.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

The Marlehouse folk played "Rugger" as a rule, but this match was regarded in the light of a curiosity; people would come in from miles round, and hordes of mechanics would flock over from Garchester, the county town.

The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

He does not lubricate the interview, but goes straight to business -- enquires, examines, pronounces, prescribes -- and then, if any time is left for light discourse, discusses the rival merits of "Rugger" and "Soccer," speculates on the result of the Hospital Cup Tie, or observes that the

Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886

Even last weekend, she went beserk when she found that the Aber Rugger Club’s annual do was players and officials only and she’d gone and spent £500 on some dressy thing which hit the wallet pretty badly, I can tell you.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

Evidently picking up glimmers of information from snatches of grown-up talk, Joan and Mimi seemed troubled by the family conflict over Rugger.

Musical Lives 2007

For several years, Tia kept company with a fellow living in the boardinghouse, Rugger, a bit of a roustabout with a child's sense of abandon that delighted the Baez girls.

Musical Lives 2007

Got KFC, as you do, and sat around being cold and stuff (tm) then wandered back to my place and started to watch the Rugger on Sky. but it was only Aussie and SA so was kinda dull .... so went to bed.

phelicity Diary Entry phelicity 2000

It was clear to me that I was dealing with a lunatic, so I thought it well before I went any further in the matter to call upon my friend Malone, whom I had known since the old days when we both played Rugger for Richmond.

When the World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968