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Rugby World Cup Golden Moments |
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Rugby World
Cup Golden Moments
There have been a huge number of memorable moments
in the 20-year history of the Rugby World Cup. Think
of the last minute drop-goals to beat Australia by
Rob Andrew (in 1995), and Johnny Wilkinson...
Format: DVD
Duration: 90 min.
Zone: 2 |
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Rugby World Cup 2007 Official Travel Guide |
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Author: Donna Dailey; Hope Caton; Mike Gerrard
Rugby World Cup 2007 Official Travel Guide
The only authorized guide for the 2007 Rugby
World Cup, this full-color reference to the world's
third largest sporting event is packed with stadium
maps and information on sports bars, big screen
rugby...
Format: Softcover |
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The History of the Rugby World Cup |
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Author: Gerald Davies
The History of the Rugby World Cup
Featuring interviews with players past and
present, including Sean Fitzpatrick, Jonathan
Davies, Philippe Sella, Will Carling, Keith Wood and
Martin Johnson, this guide offers a detailed
analysis of the...
Format: Paperback |
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Rugby! What Rugby? |
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Author: Roger Entwistle
Rugby! What Rugby? Rugby World Cup 2007
Category: Humour
Format: Softcover
Pages: 72
Illustrations: 8 |
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The Official ITV Sport Rugby World Cup 2007 Guide |
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Author: Chris Hawkes
The Official ITV Sport Rugby World Cup 2007 Guide
"The Rugby World Cup 2007 Guide" gives the
reader all they need to know about the sixth contest
for the Webb Ellis Trophy. The book features a guide
to all 20 competing teams, with information on their...
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category: Rugby World Cup
RUGBY
WORLD CUP ORIGINS |
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HOW IT STARTED |
In June 1983 Australia
proposed a World Cup and put itself as host, and the
following year New Zealand put forward it's case. In a major
breakthrough, The International Rugby Board instigated a
World Cup feasibility study, with Australia and New Zealand
forming a joint working committee and the study began in
December 1984.
At a meeting in Paris on 20-21 March 1985, the International
Rugby Board held a vote on the concept. It was no secret
that England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales were opposed to the
idea, with Australia, New Zealand & France in favour. South
Africa's crucial vote went in favour of the event, then when
England and Wales changed their mind and voted in favour the
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THE WILLIAM WEBB
ELLIS TROPHY |
 It
all started in 1987, a few months before the kick-off of the
first Rugby World Cup. When the late World Cup Chairman John
Kendall-Carpenter went to Garrards and saw the handsome yet,
at the time, impersonal piece of silverware, he immediately
knew that he had found what he was looking for: a trophy to
fit both the occasion and the traditions of the Game.
"I felt that a Victorian, not a Georgian trophy would be
appropriate, made of silver - a masculine metal - rather
than gold. The craftsmanship of the period and the beauty of
the piece would have to project the past into the present.
At Garrards, I was told by Richard Jarvis, one of their
directors, that they had re-acquired, that very day, a piece
of silverware, a copy of a Victorian cup which was made in
their own workshop in 1906. When they brought the cup from
the vaults, I immediately knew I had found what I was
looking for. It was heavy, it was compact, it was handsome"
he recalled.
The trophy made an equally powerful impression on the IRFB
Rugby World Cup Organising Sub-Committee, of Ronnie Dawson
of Ireland, Keith Rowlands of Wales, Bob Stuart of New
Zealand, Bill Turnbull of Australia, the two RWC Executive
Directors Dick Littlejohn of New Zealand and Sir Nicholas
Shehadie of Australia, who approved it unanimously.
"It struck us all as a very beautiful piece of silverware.
We felt that it was very appropriate for Rugby Football and
its rich tradition. A very inspired choice, and I have to
confess that it was one of the very few unanimous decisions
of that committee" Keith Rowlands IRFB Secretary and RWC
Director said.
 The Webb Ellis Trophy, made in 1906 by Garrards is a copy of
a cup created by a famous Victorian silversmith Paul de
Lamerie in 1740. The original is now in the collection of
one of the Goldsmiths Company in London. De Lamerie, one of
the leading silversmiths of the 18th century fled religious
persecutions of his native France to seek shelter in
England. The Huguenot craftsman set up shop in Soho, about
200 yards from the current headquarters of Garrards in
Regent Street, around 1730. De Lamerie produced an immense
range of cups and trophies, which are now in private
collections all over the world. The Cup, made of sterling
silver, gilded in gold, is 15 inches tall. A satyr head
adorns one of the two cast scroll handles while the other is
decorated with a nymph head, with bearded mask, lion mask
and vine terminals.
The Cup commenced its march towards immortality on 22 May on
the day of the game New Zealand v Italy in the 1987 World
Cup and acquired star status when New Zealandcaptain David
Kirk hoisted it above his head at Eden Park on 20 June 1987.
Since then, the 108 ounces of pure sterling silver have
travelled the world over. It has been touched by Royalty and
by Aborigine bushmen, by New Zealand sailors and by French
farmers. It was lifted with pride and joy by the Wallaby
captain Nick-Farr Jones on 2 November 1991 to become in the
subsequent years the focus of a formidable revival of Rugby
Union in Australia. After two years in the Antipodes, it
returned to the UK to be given a face lift by Garrards in
1994.
Nicknamed "Bill" by the irreverent Australians, it has now
become the Holy Grail of Rugby Football. Nineteen years ago
a nameless piece of silverware in the Garrards trophy room,
the William Webb Ellis trophy has become the ultimate symbol
of supremacy in Rugby Union.
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