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October 1872, members of the cricket club decided that in order to keep fit over the winter they should begin playing football. Both association and rugby union football were experimented with but the rugby format triumphed as it was considered "manlier and more congenial to the Border nature than
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around the 1860s:- by formulating The Green Book in 1858; the
Blairgowrie and Rattray Laws of 1865 and the Kilmarnock Rules of 1869. and these were adopted by almost all of Scotland's early rugby union clubs, including Hawick and Wilton. The club's captain at the time, Robert Michie, got copies of
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The sole focus of rugby union meant that Hawick RFC gradually attracted the better rugby players. Although Hawick and Wilton RFC remained a strong club and won both the Hawick and Wilton Sevens and the Hawick Sevens in 1889, the members of the Hawick and Wilton club decided to disband the club in
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Langholm RFC however then played the
English variant of rugby union which had crossed the border from Carlisle. In the match between Hawick & Wilton and Langholm a dispute broke out regarding what would constitute a goal:- Langholm contending that a goal was scored by the ball going
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began as a splinter club from Hawick and Wilton RFC in 1885. Rugby was gaining prominence and instead of being essentially a cricket club with a rugby club arm; the offshoot club focused purely on rugby union. Hawick RFC moved to the nearby
Volunteer Park and played in green colours.
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and the Hawick and Wilton Sevens were two distinct tournaments; the Hawick and Wilton Sevens founded first in 1885, the Hawick Sevens founded in 1886. By a quirk of fate in the period that both tournaments co-existed they shared similar winners.
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The rugby club began its own Sevens tournament in 1885. It ran to 1889; the club itself folded in Spring 1890 after that season's fixtures and no Sevens tournament was run in 1890. The
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Scottish rugby clubs standardised most of today's rules of
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308:"Rugby History | Sports Heritage Scotland"
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578:Hawick Harlequins RFC
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388:"Selkirk C.C. Sevens"
83:Hawick and Wilton RFC
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356:"Hawick and Wilton"
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286:. Birlinn.
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261:2019-07-20
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26:Full name
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