Pall Mall Restaurant

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The Pall Mall Restaurant was a hostelry situated at Number 1 Cockspur Street, Westminster, London, just off Pall Mall and near Trafalgar Square.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishnews.com/sport/2017/01/26/news/on-this-day---jan-26-1973---celtic-manager-brendan-rodgers-is-born-904994/ |title=On This Day - Jan 26, 1973 - Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is born |publisher=The Irish News |date= |accessdate=2017-12-09}}{{cite book |last1=Hibbert |first1=Christopher |last2=Weinreb |first2=Ben |title=The London Encyclopaedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA199 |year=2008 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5 |page=199}} The site was subsequently the offices of the White Star Line, and was then occupied by a Tex Mex restaurant, the Texas Embassy Cantina. Currently the site is unused.

The Pall Mall restaurant is chiefly notable for being the place where the Rugby Football Union was founded on 26 January 1871.{{cite book | last=Marshall | first=F. | title=Football: The Rugby Union Game | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-108-08394-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IWEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 | access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=67}}{{cite book | last=Rowley | first=C. | title=The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-4422-4619-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HmBoCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA151 | access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=151}} 32 men from 21 clubs met and set up the sport's governing committee.{{cite book |last=Norridge |first=Julian |title=Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?: How the British Invented Sport |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bS7HxWHUjYC&pg=PT254|year=2008|publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-190337-8|pages=254–}} A wall plaque commemorating the event was unveiled in 1971 by the Union's president, Sir William Ramsay.{{cite web |title=Pall Mall Restaurant |url=http://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/page2903a.htm |publisher=Plaques of London |accessdate=10 December 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Staff Reporter|title=Competition in Rugby!|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123846433/|accessdate=10 December 2017|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=31 January 1971|page=64}}