ABSTRACT
1. In the last chapter, we showed how Rugby in Lancashire and Yorkshire began, as part of its democratization, to express the values of the industrial classes and how the ‘open’ clubs which drew their membership from the bourgeoisie and proletariat grew more powerful in a playing and organizational sense. In short, the game in those two counties underwent processes of ‘bourgeoisification’ and ‘proletarianization’. This requires elaboration.
