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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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In rugby union, World Rugby regulates the size and shape of the ball under Law 2 (also known as Law E.R.B); an official rugby union ball is oval and made of four panels, has a length in-line of 280–300 millimetres, a circumference (end to end) of 740–770 millimetres, and a circumference (in width) of 580–620 millimetres.
In the mid twentieth-century, rugby union continued to be a purely amateur sport, unlike American football and the breakaway rugby league. Rugby league didn't make much headway in the US, for the simple reason that many rugby players who wished to go professional could go into the NFL instead, where there was better pay. The expansion of rugby ...