Condition: 7/10 Good. Small faint marks scattered around the jersey

Size: Adult’s Large

Chest Measurement: 43-45 Inches / 109-114 CM

Manufacturer: Kukri

Colour: White, light blue trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 2011

Player: #4

Patches: N/A

Official Kukri Basel ‘Over Under 30’s’ rugby football shirt from the 2011 season. Complete with #4 on the back of the shirt in official lettering.

Condition of this vintage football jersey is 7/10 – Good. Small faint marks scattered around the jersey (see photos).

In 1974, a side from Basel toured France and were on the end of record breaking defeats. They lost 127-0 to Grenoble, 104-3 to Thonon and 116-0 to Annecy. The captain of the Basel team, Pierre Langlois said, "We conceded 73 tries, I think. We even had a penalty try given against us when we were losing by 100 points."

Swiss rugby continued in a haphazard manner during the 1970s and 80s, for example, when Switzerland was due to play Bellinzona RFC in Italy, two of their players were delayed by a landslide. In order to make up numbers, a journalist and their coach driver were added to the squad. They did so well in the game that they were invited to subsequent training sessions.

The Swiss Federation undertook an intensive development program in the 1980s, under Evelyne Oberson, and managed to gain a number of new native players. Ms Oberson, working often alone in Lausanne as a volunteer, was in every way a key element to Swiss rugby as, through her high level of personal organisation and admin skills, for the most part managed the (then) small Federation almost single-handedly. She was essential to Swiss rugby holding together from the 80s until its current format.

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