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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.
Rugby sevens has been played at the Commonwealth Games since the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur. [173] The most gold medal holders are New Zealand who have won the competition on four successive occasions until South Africa beat them in 2014. [174] Rugby union has also been an Asian Games event since the 1998 games in Bangkok, Thailand. In the 1998 ...
William Webb Ellis (24 November 1806 – 24 February 1872) was an English Anglican clergyman who, by tradition, has been credited as the inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the "rugby" style of play.
Friendship bracelets – a variety of diagonally-tied patterns Tying a friendship bracelet. There are different types of friendship bracelets, for example "normal bracelets" or "alpha bracelets", that are tied in different ways. Normal bracelets are tied diagonally while alpha bracelets are tied horizontally.
Detail of Cavandoli macramé. Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.. The primary knots of macramé are the square (or reef knot) and forms of "hitching": various combinations of half hitches.
The 1964 Five Nations Championship was the thirty-fifth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship.Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventieth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. 10 matches were played between 4 January and 11 April.
France's National Rugby Centre located in Marcoussis. The National Rugby Centre (in French, Centre National du Rugby or CNR) was opened by then French president Jacques Chirac in November 2002. [11] The facility cost GP£46 million (approx. €68 million, c.2007), and is located in the village of Marcoussis, south of Paris. [11] [12]
The scrum cap is a form of headgear used by rugby players to protect the ears in the scrum, which can otherwise suffer injuries leading to the condition commonly known as cauliflower ears. Although originally designed for forwards they are now worn by players of all positions, even those who do not play in the scrum.