Original sentence: (See History of rugby union.In 1871 21 English clubs met at a London hostelry to form the Rugby Football Union (RFU), which would draw up rules for the game first played at Rugby school in 1823.There would have been 22, but the Wasps' representative never reached that inaugural meeting
Edited sentence: " On 26 January 1871 a meeting attended by representatives from 21 clubs was held in London at the Pall Mall Restaurant., King's College Hospital, St Paul's, Queen’s House, Lausanne, Addison, Mohicans, and Belsize Park.== The forming of the first Rugby Union==.According to one version, a Wasps' representative was sent to attend the meeting, but owing to a misunderstanding, was sent to the wrong venue at the wrong time on the wrong day; another version is that he went to a venue of the same name where, after consuming a number of drinks, he realised his mistake but was too drunk to make his way to the correct venue.Algernon Rutter was elected as the first president of the RFU and Edwin Ash was elected as treasurer.As a result of this meeting the Rugby Football Union (RFU) was founded.Maton) drew up the first laws of the game which were approved in June 1871.On 4 December 1870, Edwin Ash of Richmond and Benjamin Burns of Blackheath published a letter in The Times suggesting that "those who play the rugby-type game should meet to form a code of practice as various clubs play to rules which differ from others, which makes the game difficult to play.The 21 clubs present at the meeting were: Blackheath (represented by Burns and Frederick Stokes the latter becoming the first captain of England), Richmond, Ravenscourt Park, West Kent, Marlborough Nomads, Wimbledon Hornets, Gipsies, Civil Service, The Law Club, Wellington College, Guy’s Hospital, Flamingoes, Clapham Rovers, Harlequin F.The one notable omission was the Wasps.Three lawyers who were Rugby School alumni (Rutter, Holmes and L