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notes for module 2
The Rugby World Cup
Lectures by Peter Lineham
5 August 2003
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Lecture One: The Development of Rugby in Sporting
History
Lecture Two: The Mythology and the Reality
of Rugby History in New Zealand
12 August 2003
Lecture Three: The Origins of Rugby League and the
Issue of Sponsorship
Lecture Four: The Commercialisation and Professionalisation
of Rugby
TUTORIALS
Tutorial Three (5 and 7 August)
1. Did William Ellis kick the ball?
2. Did rugby move from being an upper class English sport to a lower class New
Zealand sport?
3. Why did New Zealand become so successful in rugby internationals?
4. Do you agree with Phillips’ view that rugby was approved as a kind
of training in manliness?
Tutorial Four (12 and 14 August)
1. Explain how and why rugby became more commercialised.
2. Why has the NZRFU become co-operative in commercial sponsorship?
3. How are the profesionalisation and commercialisation of sport linked?
4. Why was New Zealand squeezed out of co-hosting the Rugby World Cup?
Assignments
Topic Two (choose one)
2.1 Why did rugby remain an amateur code long after soccer and league?
2.2 Analyse the changing social character of rugby over the past 120 years.
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Owen, Dorian, P. and Clayton R. Weatherston, ‘Professionalization of New
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Hickie, Tom, They ran with the ball: how Rugby football began in Australia,
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