While the IRB deserves credit for creating a World Sevens Series to spread the game of rugby around the globe, it is a 19 ^th century Scottish butcher and his apprentice who were the real architects of what modern day fans now know as Sevens Rugby.

In 1883, a rugby committee met in the small Scottish town of Melrose to consider organising an athletics meeting or sports day to raise funds at the end of the rugby season. It was at this meeting that the local butchers apprentice and Melrose 20-a-side quarterback, Ned Haig, suggested having a rugby tournament as part of the sports day.

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