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Ireland Wales: 11–6 Ireland: 1 December 1906 St. Helen's Wales South Africa: 0–11 1906–07 tour of Europe South Africa: 12 January 1907 St. Helen's Wales England: 22–0 1907 Home Nations Championship Wales: 2 February 1907 Inverleith Scotland Wales: 6–3 Scotland: 9 March 1907 Cardiff Arms Park/National Stadium Wales Ireland: 29–0 Wales
The first Welsh team to play an international rugby match, February 1881. The 1880–81 Home Nations rugby union matches were a series of international rugby union friendlies held between the England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales national rugby union teams. This season is most notable for the introduction of Wales as an international rugby union ...
A total of 135 matches have been played, with Wales winning 70 matches, Ireland winning 58 matches and seven matches drawn. [1] [2] The two sides have met three times at the Rugby World Cup, with Wales winning two and Ireland winning one of those encounters. [3] Wales won 13–6 in their pool encounter at the inaugural World Cup in 1987. [3]
Rugby seems to have reached Wales in 1850, when the Reverend Professor Rowland Williams brought the game with him from Cambridge to St. David's College, Lampeter, [4] which fielded the first Welsh rugby team that same year. Arthur "Monkey" Gould was the first Welsh superstar of rugby union
The first 'Golden Era' of Welsh rugby is so called due to the success achieved by the national team during the early 20th century. Wales had already won the Triple Crown in 1893, but between 1900 and 1914 the team would win the trophy on six occasions, and with France joining the tournament (unofficially in 1908 and 1909) three Grand Slams.
Rugby union is a popular sport in the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland), including England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The game was arguably invented in 1823 by William Webb Ellis, and in 1871 the English Rugby Football Union was the first national rugby football union to be founded.
First Ireland rugby team: played England on 19 February 1875 and lost by 2 goals and a try to nil. Dublin University was the first organised rugby football club in Ireland, having been founded in 1854. The club was organised by students who had learnt the game while at English public schools.
Rugby union is a popular team sport on the island of Ireland, organised on an all-Ireland basis, including players and teams from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Its governing body, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), was founded in 1875, [ 2 ] making it the third oldest rugby union in the world after the RFU (England) and ...