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England hosted four end-of-year internationals at Twickenham against New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa (twice) in 2006. [57] England lost their first two matches of the series to New Zealand (20–41), and Argentina (18–25). [58] [59] Argentina's victory was their first over England at Twickenham. [58]
In 1871 the Rugby Football Union, the governing body for rugby union in England, was formed by 21 rugby clubs, and the first international match, which involved England, was played in Scotland. The England national team compete annually in the Six Nations Championship , and are former world champions after winning the 2003 Rugby World Cup .
In 1983, the WRFU (Women's Rugby Football Union) was formed, with 12 inaugural clubs, the body being responsible for women's rugby in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In 1984 the Wallabies completed their first grand slam , defeating all four nations of the British Isles, and announcing their emergence as a power in world rugby.
This was leading to crises in the Old World too, where in 1895, the Northern Rugby Football Union (a rugby league body) split away in England. While rugby league failed to gain much headway in North America, the financial draw of professional American football proved too strong for some American rugby players.
This timeline lists the foundation dates of the national governing bodies for rugby union—known as rugby unions or federations. The first union was the Rugby Football Union (RFU) that was founded in 1871 to govern rugby union within England. It was founded following the first ever rugby union international, played between England and Scotland ...
Although Argentina is the best-known rugby playing nation in South America, founding the Argentine Rugby Union in 1899, [129] several other countries on the continent have a long history. Rugby had been played in Brazil since the end of the 19th century, but the game was played regularly only from 1926, when São Paulo beat Santos in an inter ...
In recent years they have played on a home and away basis, with many of these meetings serving as qualification rounds for the Rugby World Cup. From 2013 to 2015 and in 2019, Canada and the United States played every June in the tournament now known as the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup , along with Japan , Fiji , Tonga , and Samoa . [ 3 ]
In 1999, his first book Rugby’s Great Split, based on his 1996 PhD thesis, won the Aberdare Prize for Sports History Book of the Year.He has also won the Aberdare Prize for Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain (2007), A Social History of English Rugby Union (2010) and The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (2016). [7]