Vintage Old Boys Rugby Polo Shirt 1871 - Navy

The inspiration behind the Vintage Old Boys Rugby Polo Shirt 1871.

The development of Rugby Football in the early years was due to �Old Boys� forming football clubs once they�d left school and gone in to industry.

This is evident with the formation of the game in 1871 with the majority of the founder clubs being made up from�Old Rugbeians�or�Old Marlburians.�The clubs came together in 1871 and the first job of the new organisation was to form a committee. This consisted of three former students of�Rugby School, all from the legal profession. These were�founding president was Algernon Rutter, along with two fellow Old Rugbeians, Edward Carleton Holmes and Leonard James Maton, who set to work on drafting the�rules, 59 in all, a process that took five months.�They were completed in June 1871.