The Role Of Rugby In The 1924 Olympic Games

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Rugby players enraged to find out that there will be no Rugby in the 1924 Olympic Games. Due to the new image of the game, the inability to attract more than 3 teams and the departure of Baron Pierre De Courbetin as head of the Olympic Movement has lead to the fall of this beloved Olympic sport. (Exclusion) “French fans booed and hissed at the American team for the rest of the game after Adolphe Jauréguy was flattened by a hard tackle.” Said Leonard Mcgriff, 45, Medevac. Mcgriff continues to tell us that in his 20 years of Medical assistance for the games he has never seen fans so angry nor hostile. We were later told by our sources that in the second half of the game, French fans threw objects such as; bottles and rocks onto the field and