On the 1st May 1940 rugby was played at the Moss Rose (home of Macclesfield Town FC) for the first time. It is interesting to note that the rugby club, whilst playing for a charitable cause, was also very much engaged in “missionary work”. So the programme Editorial expresses a desire “to make the Macclesfield Club better known to our own townspeople” and whilst the crowd was expected to be full of rugby fans the likelihood of significant numbers of others being present is catered for, again in the Editorial, by giving an outline of scoring in rugby.
