Tradition YCAC vs Shandong Day 1 – Game 3
Streamed live on Mar 25, 2015
GFI HKFC Tens 2015
Day 1 – Game 3
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Streamed live on Mar 25, 2015
GFI HKFC Tens 2015
Day 1 – Game 3
#HK10s
The post Tradition YCAC vs Shandong Day 1 – Game 3 appeared first on Tokyo Japan Rugby Club.
I first became really interested in the early history of rugby in Japan when I offered to write a Japan rugby history-related article for the Japan-side commemorative program to be distributed during the Oxbridge Japan rugby tour of 2009. To research the contents I made my first ever visit to the Yokohama Archives of History…
Over-40’s rugby originated in Japan in the aftermath of the second world war. Its beginnings can be traced back to one evening in October 1947, two years after the end of the war, when Tokyo was still utterly devastated having been reduced to heaps of rubble. Life was a struggle characterized by confusion and disorder.
Playing SquadYoshi Amano, Bill Baker, Masahiko Ikeda, Fumitaka Katakura “The Cherry”, Junji Kikkawa, Michael King, Kats Matsuo, Yoshio Nike, “Caviar Ken“ Noguchi, Masa Nozaki, Hiroyuki Nozawa, Nao Obata, Daisuke Okada, Ryosuke Okawara, Scott Sizemore, Simon Tross Youle (captain), Shunichi Tsushima, Masafumi Uchiyama, Yasufumi Uchiyama The post YCAC Over 35s Tournament – Saturday 21st March appeared…
Report by: Joe FisherResults: Hokkaido Barbarians = Lost 29 – 0 | Sharks = Lost 41 – 21 | Tamariva = Lost (Default) | Komaba WMM = Lost 36 – 22 | Kitagami Blaze Rugger = Won 40 – 27 | Taisei Reds = Won 18 – 17 | RKU Dragons = Lost 76 –…
Canada’s Twilighters played in Japan within weeks of disaster, becoming the first foreign sports team to play in japan after the tohoku earthquake
Keio was the first Japanese team to play overseas and at the time they arrived in Shanghai they still had never lost a rugby match to a Japanese team in Japan. Keio played two matches on the tour – December 26 1925 against Shanghai on and the other against Hong Kong on December 30. Newspaper…