Author(s): Hutchins, Graham

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RUGBY SHORTS - THE WORLD'S BEST RUGBY TRIVIA is an entertaining and often humorous collection of trivia, oddities, remarkable events and quotations that are truly global and historically wide-ranging. Its 'off-the-shelf' life will be guaranteed by its status as back-pocket ready reckoner, beach holiday companion and jet flight boredom killer. It will also function as a useful resource toll for the ever popular rugby quiz, and settler of clubroom and pub arguments. RUGBY SHORTS contains what you always wanted to know about rugby, but didn't have the time to ask. It also features what you never wanted to know when you did have the time. - A player was taken out by a boomerang during a match at Tamworth, NSW - The total weight of the 30 All Blacks who toured the British Isles and France in 1967 was 2 tons, 12 cwts, 50 lbs. - Don Clarke once kicked an 84-yard penalty goal at Te Kuiti. - At an after-match function in Argentina, a pig on a spit exploded. (Preceeding text take from abstract) Paperback