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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] Forms of football in which the ball was carried ...
Part of the Summer Olympic programme in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924. Rugby sevens included since 2016. Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more 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.
Organization. Church of England. 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 ...
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Medway Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union club based in Rochester, Kent. The first XV team currently plays in Regional 2 South East. When league rugby began in 1987, Medway were placed in Kent 1 and the club has won a league and cup double twice, in 2008-09 and 2016–17. The club reached tier 5 for the first time in 2022/23 but only ...
Invictus. (film) Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, making it the third collaboration between Eastwood and Freeman after Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). The story is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game ...
englandrugby.com. The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the national governing body for rugby union in England. It was founded in 1871, and was the sport's international governing body prior to the formation of what is now known as World Rugby (WR) in 1886. It promotes and runs the sport, organises international matches for the England national ...
USA Men's Rugby Division I, Div. II, Div. III, Div. IV; USA Women's Rugby Division II Dallas Rugby Football Club is an American rugby team based in Dallas . The flagship team plays in the Red River Conference of the USA Rugby Division I , with additional teams playing in USA Rugby Division II and USA Rugby Division III .