Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Spanish Rugby Federation, the governing body for rugby union in Spain, was founded in 1923. The first game in Madrid was in the 1920s as well, when Biarritz and Tarbes played an exhibition match in front of 12,000 spectators. [3] The score upset some of the fans, who protested by throwing cushions onto the pitch. [3]
CAU Madrid Rugby Club, previously known as CAU Metropolitano RC, is a Spanish rugby team based in Madrid. The acronym originally stood for Club Atlético Universitario - University Athletic Club in Spanish. Founded in 1961, they currently play in the 1º provincial, Spain's third flight.
Rugby in Spain may refer to: Rugby union in Spain; Rugby league in Spain This page was last edited on 1 ...
The code of football later known as rugby union can be traced to three events: the first set of written rules in 1845, the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. The code was originally known simply as "rugby football".
American football (and gridiron football more generally) also has its origins in the English variants of the game, with the first set of intercollegiate football rules based directly on the rules of the Football Association in London. However, Harvard chose to play a game based on the rules of Rugby football.
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 Royal [1] Spanish Rugby Federation (Spanish: Real Federación Española de Rugby) is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Spain.. The Spanish Rugby Federation was founded in 1923, and joined the International Rugby Football Board, later known as the International Rugby Board and now as World Rugby, in 1988.
The 1980s proved to be somewhat of a golden age for Spanish rugby; for the first time Spain played against non-FIRA competition, playing a test against both the Māori All Blacks as well as South American giants Argentina in November 1982, in Madrid. The Spanish were thrashed 66–3 to the Māori, but came close to upsetting Argentina, losing ...