SCOTTISH RUGBY HISTORY
According to the mythology of rugby the birth of this sport is to attribute from William Webb Ellis. In the 1823, to the school of rugby (England), during a sad game of football whitout result, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and began to run amazing friends and adversaries; as he're thought to have happened the first footstep in the world of rugby.
However to play of ethos of Ellis, where he kick that take the ball with hands he've stayed rule, he was begun to play century in different public schools, college and Scottish university toward the half of the XIX. Rules of play had fixed formally in the 1846 and also if there were many changes before the sport becomes that we know, those rules were useful for giving consistence ti this new activity.
The first international match is been played in the 1870 when captains of five Scottish clubs challenge the English clubs to a representative game. Such I meet quarreled over to Roeburn Place, field of cricket of Edimburgh Academy, Monday 27 March 1871; Scotland prevailed with a gol (a transform 'try') and a 'try' against an only 'try' from England (destination had called 'try' why, to that time, the principal purpose was make sting with the kick of the ball in the H, therefore if the square did destination had law of try kick).
Scotland had, therefore, the happy occasion of entertain and win the first international meeting of rugby in absolute. This Scotland-England meeting changed in an annual appointement and shortly time became one of the sporting more important events. According to one of the first historians of Scottish play, R.J. Phillips, "...elegant of the years '70 and to the beginning of the years '80 there were a big change and a depth advancement toward modern style in formalities of the play. During these years boys of Lorreto and Fettes began to develop a more complex and joined play between back postings, developing what you would be then known state like 'passing game'. From the Scottish schools 'passing game' arrived to the English universities and diffused between their clubs".
It's an historical fact that such technique of play has born in the Scottish schools and that his introduction in English reality is due to presence of many old men students in the English universities. These so much spread quickly that shortly time was begun to speak 'Oxford game'.
Scottish was also he who invented tugby seven; Neil Haig suggested of make tourneys of 'sevens' rugby for pick up deep for his club, Melrose. Therefore April 25 1883 they gambled away the first tournements of this variation to Greenyards; it won Melrose, beating the neighbors and adversaries of Gala in the final game.
After the first world war rugby continued to grow for popularity and Inverleith didn't can more contain the crowd that crowded to see big players of epoch like captain G.P.S. Macgherron, the big full-back Dan Drysdale and the wing fast Eric Liddell, that was an olympic glory in the run.
In the 1922 Scottish Football Union (SFU) bought 19 acrid of earth to Murrayfield, terrestrial of play of club of pole of Edimburgh. The bottoms for construction of stadium came picked thak you the issue of obligations. In the 1924, during the jobs of construction, SFU changed own name in Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) and, in a sunny 21 March 1925, Murrayfield came officially inaugurated with an other international match against England.
In that season Scotland had already won on France to Inverleith (25-4), on Wales to Swansea (25-14) and on Eire to Dublin (14-8); England, winning of Big Slam of the two preceding seasons, it had already won on Wales (12-6) and equalized with Eire (6-6).
The 70.000 present spectators to Murrayfield showed to an exciting match which the order of game alternated different times up to victory from Scotland for 14-11, that between other belongingses was awared as his first Big Slam.
A perfect way to celebrate the first Murrayfield match.
