“In the autumn of 1911, a rugby team was founded for Doshisha University located in a place not so far from Daisan High School, urged on by Teiichi Sugimoto and others who started coaching this high school in the spring the same year. Both teams trained together under good practice conditions where practice games could be held often. This helped the proliferation of rugby in the ancient capital, Kyoto. In January 1912, Keio made a tour in the western Japan, playing against Daisan High School and Doshisha University. Their matches excited the young spectators in Kyoto so match that ‘they set rugby as their life-long goal', just as told by Ban Kayama. These matches must have left a significant influence in the future rugby world.” (Source: “The History of Daisan High School Rugby Team”)
　
“The 70-Year History of Doshisha University Rugby Football” contains the following descriptions: “When the second semester started at the end of the summer vacation in 1911, my late classmate, Morizo Matsuda, became a rugby enthusiast as he heard about the attractiveness and fascination with rugby from a Keio rugby player who was a distant relative from the same hometown. Then Matsuda enthusiastically approached me, serving as the captain of association football at that time, as well as the team's top members to officially adopt rugby union. Therefore, I had several discussions with other players and members such as my classmates, Gojushiro Wakatsuki and Takeichi Kihara, and Junji Owaki who was two years younger than me. Receiving unanimous approval from them, we invited Keio rugby players in order to have them explain the rules and methods of rugby union. We also invited Daisan High School rugby players, who started playing rugby one year earlier than Doshisha. We went to this high school so as to practice rugby together. By doing so, we acquired general knowledge of rugby.”
It has been well known that both of these rugby clubs produced a great number of rugby players and leaders in the rugby world in Japan.