on the story:

Bloxam's first account differed from his second one four years later. In his first letter, in 1876, Bloxam claimed that Webb Ellis committed the act in 1824, a time by which Webb Ellis had left Rugby. In his second letter, in 1880, Bloxam put the year as 1823.

1895 investigation

The claim that Webb Ellis invented the game did not surface until four years after his death, and doubts have been raised about the story since 1895 when the Old Rugbeian Society first

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