"By 1932, however, rugby had regained favour as a better game than other football codes for the development of military preparedness. In that year a university rugby competition began and a new national federation was formed. The return of Fascist favour helped rugby grow to 106 official clubs affiliated to the national union and nearly 7,000 non-affiliated clubs by the outbreak of World War II in 1939. After the war rugby's previous links to Fascism limited its growth and rugby suffered in comparison with other sports, including those introduced by American troops stationed in the country during the latter part of the war and after. Rugby retained its foothold in the universities, however, and expanded to smaller towns in the north and the east during the 1950s."
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Timothy John, Lindsay Chandler, John Nauright; “Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce”, p.xx.
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