Pass 450, a commemoration of Rugby School
INSIDER NEWSDESK-- In a commemoration of Rugby School's foundation a special Gilbert Rugby ball fitted with a GPS tracker is set to make its way around Italy stopping in Milan, Florence and Rome
The year 2017 marks the 450th anniversary of the foundation, in 1567, of Rugby School, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st.. The School, famed worldwide for the invention of Rugby Union Football, the tales of Tom Brown's Schooldays and its most illustrious Headmaster, Thomas Arnold, will be celebrating this anniversary throughout the year with a range of events.
The Rugbeian Society (for ex-pupils), has organised the Global Pass 450, whereby a special GPS-tracked Rugby Ball will move through 25 countries around the world over the course the year, being passed 450 times between Old Rugbeians, and others, in locations that reflect a link to a person, event or place with a connection to the school. The Global Pass started on Monday 9th January, on the very Rugby pitch at the School where the game was first invented by William Webb Ellis back in 1823, and over the next few months will visit all seven continents, even travelling to the South Pole for a pass!
Starting on its journey from Rugby in January, the ball will arrive in Italy in February where four pass ‘events’ are planned: in Rome (at Stadio Olimpico with Sergio Parisse, Captain of Italy), in Florence (2 passes, one at The English Cemetery, another in central Florence (Statue of David, Ponte Vecchio and the British Institute) and lastly in Milan (with The British School and CUS Milano Rugby club holding a mini-rugby festival for children).
Florence: 8th February 2017- 11.30am, The English Cemetery, Florence
Milan: 9th February 2017 – 10am, Centro Sportivo Leone XIII, via Rossetti 4, 20145
For all enquiries please contact Italian Co-ordinator: Peter Staveley
cell: 377 903 1606
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