I remember an officer telling us that when he was a prisoner at Magdeburg in the early days of the war, the English prisoners had started playing rugger in the exercise yard with a piece of bread that had dropped in the mud.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
I'll tell my brother, the Bective rugger fullback, on you, heartless flirt.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
He is very young and very impetuous, and regards the whole thing as a glorious game to be played as keenly as he plays rugger.
"With Haig on the Somme"
D. H. Parry