Wikipedia:Marlow Rugby Union Football Club

Marlow Rugby Club is an English Rugby Union club. That was formed in 1947. Marlow Rugby Club play at Riverwoods Drive, which is located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It currently has 4 senior sides, ladies, Colts, full Youth (most age groups run 2 sides) and Mini Section. Marlow claims to be the birthplace of Mini Rugby in English, and runs one of the oldest Mini Tournaments, now in its 44th year.History1912 - 1946Officially the Club was formed at a meeting held at the Chequers Hotel in the High Street, Marlow on Tuesday 3 February 1947. However, a rugby match was played on 8 February 1913 on Crown Meadow against High Wycombe and (not for the first time), Marlow triumphed by 13pts to nil.One of the players who took part in this game, a Dr. G Berkeley Wills wrote to the Club in 1964 to confirm the events of that day. He wrote :- 'At the end of 1912 one or two of us who had been at schools which played Rugger thought it might be amusing to get together if possible a team to show Marlow - which was then prominent at Soccer - what 'The handling game' was like.When it came to it we could only find four or five people who had played the game before, nevertheless we persuaded others to make up a side under instruction. We hired Crown Meadow, (this was before it became Riley Recreation Ground) erected goal posts, marked out the pitch and had several intensive practices to try and instil some basic principles and to form a team.We then challenged High Wycombe to a match, the result of which I think surprised us all. The score of two goals and a try was a fair indication of the run of the play. Quite a large crowd watched the game and yelled their surprise and approved whenever a tackle was made - especially when a three quarter was downed and hurled over the touch line. This was a strange and exciting game indeed !