![H536-280 [tobacco : UK] Hignett "International Caps and Badges" (May 1924) 8/25](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-10/17%20centenary.jpg?itok=eh5i1-aC)
This card features the Rugby Centenary, but as we will find out this week a lot of sets are of mixed sports and several combine both Rugby and Soccer within the same "Football" set.
As far as this set, sports collectors may not realise that it includes The Lawn Tennis Association, which I will almost certainly forget by the time it is Wimbledon, and even more excitingly the badge (on a hat band) and flag for the Great Britain team who were going to the Olympic Games of 1924, to be held in Paris.
The Rugby Centenary featured on this card records the date of 1823, when William Webb Ellis, of Rugby School, picked up the ball and ran with it. Now an image of the buildings of Rugby School appears on Hills "Views of Interest" fourth series card 173 - on "Sunripe" brand "Public Schools and Colleges" (1923) 35/50 - and on Wills "Public Schools" (1927) 20/25 - all of which mention the introduction of Rugby - whilst its emblem or crest appears on Cavanders "School Badges" (1928) Un/25 - where the text tells us "its great game is rugger" - Wills "Arms of Public Schools" large size 25/25 and Wills "School Arms" (1906) 16/50