William Cail
William Cail | |
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| Born | William Henry Cail 28 February 1849 |
| Died | 25 November 1925 (aged 76) |
William Henry Cail (28 February 1849 in Gateshead – 25 November 1925 in Newcastle upon Tyne) was an English rugby pioneer.
William Cail introduced rugby in Cannstatt in 1865.[1][2] That was the beginning of a community of players which founded later the predecessor clubs of VfB Stuttgart.[3]
William Cail established the
British and Irish Lions during the 1910 British Lions tour to South Africa.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Descendants of Raiph Ingledue: Seventh Generation (4th Great Grandchildren)". ingledew.family.name. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ^ Heineken, Philipp (1930). Erinnerungen an den Cannstatter Fussball-Club [Memories of the Cannstatter Fussball-Club] (in German). Heidelberg: Verlag Hermann Meister. p. 10.
- ^ Heineken, Philipp (1930). Erinnerungen an den Cannstatter Fussball-Club [Memories of the Cannstatter Fussball-Club] (in German). Heidelberg: Verlag Hermann Meister. p. 18.
- ^ "Cail, William". 20thcenturylondon.org.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
External links
- Profile at cricketarchive.com
- Blackledge, Paul (2001). "Rationalist Capitalist Concerns: William Cail and the Great Rugby Split of 1895". The International Journal of the History of Sport. 18 (2). London: 35–53. .