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Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]
Rugby football has strong claims to the world's first and oldest "football club": the Guy's Hospital Football Club, formed in London in 1843, by old boys from Rugby School. Around the English-speaking world , a number of other clubs formed to play games based on the Rugby School rules.
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Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
This category is for articles about rugby football prior to the 1895 schism that split the sport into the modern games of rugby league and rugby union and for articles about sports that derive from first laws of rugby drawn up in 1871.
1974 Saint Lucia Rugby Football Union; 1975 USA Rugby (founded as United States of America Rugby Football Union) 1975 Zambia Rugby Football Union [23] 1979 Kazakhstan Rugby Union (as regional association of USSR - full national body in 1994) 1977 Brunei Rugby Football Union; 1980 Vanuatu Rugby Football Union [24] 1986 Andorran Rugby Federation
Category: History of rugby football. 2 languages. ... Rugby football controversies (2 C) R. History of rugby league (6 C, 35 P) History of rugby union (11 C, 42 P)
The main reason for the split was the wish of players to be compensated for lost wages when playing Rugby. Many working class players in the North lost wages to play. The R.F.U. opposed players being paid. They set up the Northern Rugby Football Union (later renamed the Rugby Football League). The RFU took strong action against the clubs ...