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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 league and association football were not the only early competitors to rugby union. In the late 19th century, a number of "national" football codes emerged around the world, including Australian rules football (originating in Victoria), Gaelic football (Ireland), and the gridiron codes: American and Canadian football. [citation needed]
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.
The game of rugby union developed out of the game of football that was played at Rugby School from the mid-18th century. 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.
Rugby fives, nominally developed at Rugby School in Rugby is the most common variant of the sport, [28] played in both singles and doubles. The variant is derived from Wessex fives, and was brought to Rugby in the 19th century by Thomas Arnold , the then headmaster of Rugby School, who had learnt the game playing at Warminster School .
Years of the 19th century in rugby union (47 C) This page was last edited on 10 April 2020, at 16:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
19th century in rugby union (8 C) 20th century in rugby union (11 C) 21st century in rugby union (5 C) This page was last edited on 2 September 2022, at 15:18 (UTC). ...
1.1 19th century. 1.2 20th century. 1.3 21st century. 2 See also. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This page indexes the individual year in rugby union ...