POPULARITY IN RUSSIA
Game Gaining Ground (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MOSCOW, Sept. 29 Rugby Union, believed to have been first introduced to the Russians by_ some Britons in the 1930’5, is gaining popularity in the Soviet Union. An organisational bureau for setting up a national Rugby federation has been formed. Its vice-chair-man, Anatoly Sorokin, said today that teams from Rumania, Czechoslovakia. and East Germany may be invited to take part in international competitions next year. The initiative in reviving Rugby has come from students' sports clubs. The game is most popular with students of the Moscow Higher Technical School, with a 60-strong Rugby section, and the Aviation Institute, winners of the first allUnion students’ competition held in Ivanovo, in central Russia, this year. The origins of the game in the Soviet Union, where Soccer and athletics are the most popular sports, are obscure, but it is believed that Britons working there introduced it between the wars.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29324, 1 October 1960, Page 7
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