📚 Rugby

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The football that split: tries and conversions, the scrum, and the amateur-to-professional argument.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rugby football in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Rugby for dummies	Matthew Brown	2004	14
Athletics and Football	Montague Shearman	1887	9
Successful Sports	David Marshall	1994	9
Total rugby	Jim Greenwood	1978	8
Think Rugby	Jim Greenwood	1986	8
Rugby Union for Dummies	Nick Cain	2011	8
Rugby	Derek Robinson	1969	7
Rugby Union (Know the Game)	Rugby Football Union.	1986	6
101 Youth Rugby Drills	Chris Sheryn	2009	6
Rugby Union and Professionalisation	Mike Rayner	2017	6
Rugby Union for Dummies	Greg Growden	2003	5
Legacy	James Kerr	2013	5
Making the Rugby World	Timothy J. L. Chandler	2013	5
Rugby : the Game of My Life	Rob Andrew	2017	5
Young Rugby Player	Kevin Till	2022	5
Rugger - do it this way	Mark Sugden	1946	4
Tackle rugger this way	Gerwyn Williams	1957	4
Rugby	Ed Morrison	1969	4
Jonathan	Jonathan Davies	1989	4
Take the Ball & Run	Godfrey Smith	1991	4
Heart and sole	David Sole	1992	4
Rugby's strangest matches	John Griffiths	2000	4
Johnny Larkin Diaries	Adrian Proszenko	2009	4
Coaching Rugby Sevens	Marcus Blackburn	2013	4
World rugby records	Chris Hawkes	2013	4
Lions Diary	Warren Gatland	2013	4
Touch Rugby	David Woolley	2014	4
Rugby's Strangest Matches	John Griffiths	2015	4
The Oval World	Tony Collins	2015	4
Open Side	Sam Warburton	2019	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 04 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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