Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools

ENTIRE books have been written about William Webb Ellis and the origins of Rugby, as we know it, and I’m going to assume you are on at least nodding terms with that story because there is so much else to chronicle when it comes to the history of rugby at the school that bequeathed its name to our great game.
What we must do however is emphasise the massive influence of Rugby School in those early formative years in the 19th century.
The first five presidents of the RFU were from Rugby, the laws of the ...