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- Title
Southern Women in the Scrums: The Emergence and Decline of Women's Rugby in the American Southeast, 1974-1980s.
- Authors
Shockley, Megan Taylor
- Abstract
The article presents the history of the emergence and decline of women's rugby from 1974 to 1980 in the southeast America. According to the author, in the year 1970 a group of pioneering women worked without varsity scholarships and little collegiate or community support to build rugby teams across the region. The effort of this group created at least fifteen teams throughout the region in 1980.
- Subjects
SOUTH America; WOMEN'S sports; RUGBY football; HISTORY of sports; RUGBY football fans; RUGBY football teams
- Publication
Journal of Sport History, 2006, Vol 33, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0094-1700
- Publication type
Article