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Rugby football (28 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Football codes" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Rugby league; Rugby union; S. Samoa ...
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.
For instance, Dally Messenger's defection from rugby union to rugby league was considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the latter over other codes in Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Globalisation is increasing the opportunities for players to transfer to different countries and to different professional sports, including the forms of football.
The first Clash of Codes game in England for over a decade will be played on 17 November at Headingley Rugby Stadium featuring legends from the England national rugby league team against legends from the England national rugby union team. The game will be 13-a-side and operate with unlimited tackles in the attacking team's own half but six ...
Comparison of Gaelic football and Australian rules football (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Comparison of football codes" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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]
A dual-code rugby international is a rugby footballer who has played at the senior international level in both codes of rugby, 13-a-side rugby league and 15-a-side rugby union. Rugby league started as a breakaway version of rugby in Northern England in 1895 and in New Zealand and Australia in 1908, and consequently a number of early top-class ...
This category features footballers of all codes, including American football, association football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union. These players switched from one code to another.