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Faculty of Medicine. [10] 13. River Plate Rugby Championship. Argentina. 1899. Lomas Athletic Club. Buenos Aires Football Club.
St. George's HospitalMedical School. St. George's Hospital Medical School RFC is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world having been founded in 1863. The side is notable for its long history, its participation in the oldest competition in rugby, the United Hospitals Cup, as well as having produced a large number of international players ...
The club's first match took place in 1857 when old boys from Rugby school challenged local boys to a game under the Rugby school rules. Liverpool Football Club were then formed. The oldest open rugby club, not part of an institution, in the world. 1857, 26 December Edinburgh Academical: Rugby football Rugby union Edinburgh: Scotland: Scottish ...
Rugby football has strong claims to the world's first and oldest "football club": the Guy's Hospital Football Club, formed in London in 1843, by old boys from Rugby School. Around the English-speaking world , a number of other clubs formed to play games based on the Rugby School rules.
The Varsity Match is an annual rugby union fixture played between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. 1874. United Hospitals Challenge Cup. club trophy. United Hospitals Challenge Cup – 1874–. Rugby football. Surrey, England. Oldest rugby football competition in the world. 1875.
The established medical schools of the time were no exception and among the students within these schools was a desire to continue playing the sport of their school days. The medical schools of London had rugby clubs that were among the earliest founded, with Guy's Hospital said to have the oldest rugby club in the world having been founded in ...
Durham School (1 title) St Paul's School (1 title) Found title, The Veterrimi IV ( veterrimi four or V4) is a rugby tournament between four of the oldest rugby playing schools in the world. The event is scheduled to be held biennially or triennially (every two to three years). "Veterrimi" is Latin for "oldest".
Blackheath. The club was founded in Blackheath in 1858 and is the fourth-oldest rugby club in continuous existence in the world, after Dublin University Football Club (1854), Liverpool St Helens F.C. (1857), and Edinburgh Academical Football Club (1857). The Blackheath club also assisted in organising the world's first rugby international ...