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FOOTBALL COMPANY 1871 RUGBY SHIRT

Name: FOOTBALL COMPANY 1871 RUGBY SHIRT
SKU: BB1871_RS_FTBC
Availability: InStock

£120.00

Chest Size

Clear

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SKU: BB1871_RS_FTBC Category: British Heritage

Description

The Football Company 1871 vintage rugby shirt is made with a quality heavyweight slub cotton which gives the shirt a hard wearing yet soft and comfortable retro style finish. This British vintage ‘old school’ shirt combines heritage colour dyes with a distressed wash to produce a nicely worn-in look and feel. The Football Company 1871 rugby shirt is completed with an F.C. monogram embroidered on the left breast and the founding date. A

Football Company founded in 1871. They played on Peckham Rye Common five minutes walk from Peckham Rye Station and changed at the ‘Prince Albert’. Football Company were the first side to play the game under the new laws of Rugby Union in 1871. Playing against Harlequins on Peckham Rye Common. The newspaper match report wrote that ‘This was the first match where the play was under the Rugby Union Laws, and they worked admirably, more especially having the ball down at once, and thus preventing the long and serious mauls so long complained of in the London-Rugby game, while hacking through was entirely dispensed with, to the evident improvement of the good feeling of all the players.’ Football Company produced two notable England internationals; J.E. Bentley and Francis Luscombe, a founder member of Gipsies F.C. who would later become a vice-president if the Rugby Football Union. Football Company played in white shirts with an F.C. monogram on the left breast.

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FEATURES

Heavy-duty 100% slub cotton

380gsm

Embroidered vintage Football Company logo with their founding date

Embroidered 1871 detailing on the back of the neck

Reinforced hems

Two rubber button placket

Machine washable

Made in Portugal

DETAILS

Football Company founded in 1871.

They played on Peckham Rye Common five minutes walk from Peckham Rye Station and changed at the ‘Prince Albert’.

Football Company were the first side to play the game under the new laws of Rugby Union in 1871. Playing against Harlequins on Peckham Rye Common.

The newspaper match report wrote that ‘This was the first match where the play was under the Rugby Union Laws, and they worked admirably, more especially having the ball down at once, and thus preventing the long and serious mauls so long complained of in the London-Rugby game, while hacking through was entirely dispensed with, to the evident improvement of the good feeling of all the players.’

Football Company produced two notable England internationals; J.E. Bentley and Francis Luscombe, a founder member of Gipsies F.C. who would later become a vice-president if the Rugby Football Union.

Football Company played in white shirts with an F.C. monogram on the left breast.