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By the end of the 19th century, rugby football and rugby union had spread far and wide. This spread was by no means confined to the British Empire. [citation needed] FC 1880 Frankfurt at the 1900 Olympic Games. Rugby football was an early arrival in Germany.
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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.
In the first half of the 19th century, the game began to spread, as ex-pupils of Rugby, and other public schools, introduced it into the universities. At Cambridge University, in 1839, a game was organised between Old Rugbeians and Old Etonians, and a rugby club was formed at Guy's Hospital, London in 1843.
The Rugby Football Union was formed in 1871, six years before William died. This led to the company experiencing rapid growth along with the explosion of the sport. [ 5 ] When William died his nephew James Gilbert took over the Gilbert company, which was making 2,800 balls per year, [ 6 ] and James eventually passed it on to his son. [ 1 ]