BEST YC&AC RUGBY PLAYER IN 1930s
BEST YC&AC RUGBY PLAYER IN 1930s Background: As explained in the story about Bill Salter’s reminiscences, in 1989 I decided to track down and interview the … Read more
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YC&AC 150th ANNIVERSARY OF RUGBY EVENT
Background Only a handful of “open” rugby clubs in the world can trace their history back 150 years. The Yokohama Country and Athletic Club (YC&AC) … Read more
FIRST INTERPORT RUGBY MATCH (YC&AC vs KR&AC) IN 1902
Background At the end of the 19th century the two leading international trading ports in Japan were Yokohama and Kobe and they were both home … Read more
1972 Interport Rugby in Japan
The annual rugby interport match played between Yokohama (YC&AC) and Kobe (KR&AC) started on Xmas day 1902 and was Japan’s longest running rugby fixture. Kobe hasn’t been able to field a team for more than 10 years. Here is a report on the 1972 match that was published in the club’s monthly in-house magazine and forwarded to me by John Quin, who played for the YC&AC that day.
Death threats sparked Japan’s first cricket game | The Japan Times
Article written by me for The Japan Times On June 25, 1863, a Royal Navy team drawn from officers on ships sent to protect British … Read more
1866: The untold early history of rugby in Japan | The Japan Times
1866 and all that: the untold early history of rugby in Japan Article written by JMG for The Japan Times published in March 2014 before … Read more
BILL SALTER’S REMINISCENCES
GLIMPSES OF YC&AC AND RUGBY IN JAPAN ON AND OFF THE FIELD IN 1920s & 1930s – BILL SALTER’S REMINISCENCES
THE 1874 “FOOTBALL IN YOKOHAMA” ILLUSTRATION AND THE ARTIST WHO CREATED IT
The image is most likely the oldest image of rugby in Asia and one of the very oldest in the world relating to ‘club’ football – at glance at the picture will tell you that the players were certainly not playing a game of soccer – actually being played as opposed to football/rugby played in schools and universities.
CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES – 150th ANNIVERSARY OF CLUB-BASED RUGBY IN JAPAN
Messages mostly from descendants of players and also from living ex-players involved in rugby in Yokohama history – 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1950s to 1980, 1971, 1979, and 1980s
ORIGINS OF BASEBALL IN JAPAN AND YC&AC’S BASEBALL SECTION
The evidence that the first baseball club in Japan was not the Shimbashi Athletic Clud allegedly founded by Hiroshi Hiraoka in 1878 but the Yokohama Base Ball Club and not the Shimbashi Athletic Club!