#ONTHISDAY - 2ND FEBRUARY 2013 - ENG Vs SCO
England came into the 2013 Six Nations as Raeburn Shield holders having defeated New Zealand late in 2012.
Their first defence of the year came against a Scotland team who had not won at Twickenham in many years.
Owen Farrell starred with an excellent day driving England around the park and a faultless kicking display. Scotland did however make them work for it by scoring the first try through Stuart Hogg and keeping it close with a halftime score of 19 - 11 to England.
England eased away in the second half taking a comfortable 38 - 18 win.
#ONTHISDAY 1ST FEBRUARY 1902 - WaL Vs SCO
Rhys Gabe scored two tries in this match to see The Welsh Rugby Union take the Raeburn Shield off of Scottish Rugby in the 1902 edition of the Home Nations Championship.
A great year for the Welsh as they won the Home Nations Championship and the Triple Crown in this year.
By contrast it was a tough year for Scotland who went from the Triple Crown in 1901 to losing all of their matches in 1902.
The Raeburn Shield remains unrecognised by @worldrugby and therefore it is an unnofficial Shield which traces winners from the first international match in 1871 until today. If like us you believe it should be official please share this post and like our page. (Or have a word with @worldrugby !) Huge thanks in advance!
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Past News Articles on The Raeburn Shield
Here is a selection of news articles from the past that reference the Raeburn Shield.
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An article in "The Roar" giving a hat tip to the Raeburn Shield ahead of their 2017 Northern tour can be seen here
Elliot Smith has written a great piece over at the New Zealand Herald imagining what the last couple of weeks would have been like if the shield actually existed.
They have been talking about the Raeburn Shield in Spain too!. If you can read Spanish give it a look here.
We had to use google translate but it looked like a good write-up.
It was great to hear Fred, Ed and Harbl from the "Line Break" podcast having a good quality chat about the Raeburn Shield on their entertaining podcast.
"Fun on the Shore" writes for EatSleepRugby about our Mythical Shield
It's a well written piece and we think you should have a read.
Conor O'Leary over at Balls.ie has realised Ireland’s Win Over South Africa Was Even More Important Than We Realised
Why not go on over and have a look.
Huw Baines over at ESPNScrum wrote a nice Alternate History piece about the Raeburn Shield.
It's a good read, you should give it a look.
Here goes a link to a rugby forum that has always been supportive of the Raeburn Shield
#ONTHISDAY - 25TH JANUARY 1896 - WAL Vs SCO
Wales won the Raeburn Shield off of Scotland in a two try win at Cardiff Arms Park.
With awful conditions and a wet heavy field Wales ran in two tries to Cliff Bowen and Arthur Gould in what was described by Cardiff Rugby Museum as "Brilliant running and passing"
Gould was an interesting figure of the time and retired in some controversy the following year having been awarded a house from testimonials held for him.
The other home unions claimed this made Gould a professional and resulted in cancelled matches with the whole affair eventually settled by Goulds retirement.
The house in question "Thornberry" now has a blue plaque commemorating Arthur Gould.
What is the Raeburn Shield?
International Rugby is at it’s peak when all nations can compete for the same prize and would be improved by something to fill the 4 year interim between our beloved RWC
The Raeburn Shield is a Challenge Trophy to be put up by the current holder, or defender, in every match it plays home or away (in the same manner as a world boxing title). The winner would either remain or become the holder.
It stretches back in this manner from the very first game of International Rugby Union in 1871 between Scotland and England played at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh (Hence the name).
Scotland became the first holders and this mythical shield has changed hands many times since then.
The aim is to get this recognised by World Rugby and add another interesting slant to international rugby where all nations could claim the ultimate prize without requiring any additional fixtures in the global calendar.
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#OnThisDay- 20th January 1973
A famous draw between New Zealand and Ireland means that as the All Blacks came into the match as Raeburn Shield holders they got to keep it.
