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A completely different 'Cook's Tour' - a light-hearted journey, through the life and times of Thomas Cook's 'house' rugby club during the first half of the 20th century. It includes players' memories, many unpublished photographs as well as background history about the business and social events of the most famous travel company in the world. It also explains rugby's evolution from its 19th century beginnings, which might allow the reader to gain insight into why boys and even old boys play the game. Being the drinking man's sport it includes many anecdotes about the game's camaraderie, as well as the apres match events, including many Dutch tours. You will visit an amazing range of opponent organizations and businesses whose players in their day jobs ran international banks, operated railways, built buses, studied medicine, sold insurance and supplied teashops, in an amateur era over forty years ago. Along the way you will pick up some trivia like what the Jesuits did with a ferula, and the cost of a pint and packet of cigarettes in old money. Perhaps learn why 'real' men have oval balls and a few alternative verses to popular tunes. It includes many celebrity quotes and traditional fixture analysis.

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