 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his 1924 Sherlock Holmes tale "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", mentions that Dr Watson played rugby for Blackheath.Henri Rousseau's 1908 work "Joueurs de football" shows two pairs of rugby players competing.Other French artists to have represented the sport in their works include Albert Gleizes' "Les Joueurs de football" (1912), Robert Delaunay's "Football.