IMAGE
William Webb Ellis memorial tablet, Rugby School, England
- Date
- Unknown
- Reference
- MNZ-1031-1/4-F
- Description
William Webb Ellis memorial tablet, Rugby School, Rugby, England. Memorial text reads: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game. AD 1823." This is a copy of a photograph in an unidentified publication. Date of photograph, and photographer, unidentified.
Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 2, No 27, p 4
Source of descriptive information - File print, MNZ copyright register, MNZ negative register
Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
- Format
- 1 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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