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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.
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.
The rules of Rugby were first codified at Rugby School by William Delafield Arnold, W. W. Shirley and Frederick Hutchins in 1845. In 1848, representatives of the major public schools agreed a code of rules. [1] On 26 January 1871, a meeting was held in London that led to the founding of the Rugby Football Union.
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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.
1871 Scotland versus England rugby union match; 1971 Scotland versus England rugby union match; History of the South Africa national rugby union team; Southern Hemisphere XV; 1906–1917 Stanford rugby teams