"It was not to the settler empire alone that rugby was transported. British men who had been trained in the game took it with them in their travels, persuading elite young men from other countries (many of whom were [[university)] [[students)]) of the value of this British upper- and middle-class, masculine activity. By World War I rugby was being played in France, Italy and Romania, Argentina and Uruguay, Canada and the United States, and Japan. Although taken itially to the white settler colonies, rugby also spread throughout the British spheres of influences in the south Pacific. The first recorded rugby march in Fiji took place as early as 1884 and Australian teachers took rugby to Tonga in 1900, though ruby did not appear in Western Samoa until the 1920s after New Zealand took over the administration of the former German colony."
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Timothy John, Lindsay Chandler, John Nauright; “Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce”, p. xvii
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