Rugby and Enfields

**RobD** · 11-02-2019 12:40 PM

I really enjoyed watching today's match in a bar in a little Free State town in the Afrikaner heartland. Oops to keep this on topic: is there a connection between Lee Enfields and Rugby?

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**MSW2** · 11-03-2019 04:00 AM

No idea on about Lee Enfields and Rugby. Used to play when I was young, but now for me a Rugby stadium or field is just wasted space that could have been better used as a shooting range

Apparently we won but I do not even know what the final score was. I was out back shooting away some no 7 shot while the game was on.

**30Three** · 11-03-2019 09:48 AM

Probably most of the 680 Old Rugbeians ( ex Rugby School pupils) who died in the First World war would have been carrying a Lee Enfield.
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**muffett.2008** · 11-04-2019 04:16 AM

Brings Rupert Brookes straight to mind.

**Paul S.** · 11-04-2019 06:24 PM

Um, it's a safe bet that every Enfield equipped battalion had a Rugby, cricket and football side.

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