Marlborough’s frontiersmen helped take the game global

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

RUGBY School often take most of the plaudits for spreading the game, and in many ways that’s fair enough, but Marlborough College were not far behind.
Thus far the school has produced 38 internationals, most in the first three or four decades of organised Test rugby as we know it. Their Old Boys – the Londonbased Marlborough Nomads – were one of the original 21 clubs to form the RFU in 1871 which gives them bragging rights over Rugby and Marlborough alumni and they have been instrumental in...

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