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Rugby football (28 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Football codes" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Rugby league; Rugby union; S. Samoa ...
The first Clash of Codes game in England for over a decade will be played on 17 November at Headingley Rugby Stadium featuring legends from the England national rugby league team against legends from the England national rugby union team. The game will be 13-a-side and operate with unlimited tackles in the attacking team's own half but six ...
Top American football level Top rugby union level Top representation level American football debut Rugby union debut Richard Tardits: France, USA: National Football League (New England) Top 14 : USA (15s) 1990: 1994 Dan Lyle: USA: NCAA Division I FCS (Virginia Military Institute) English Premiership (Bath/Leicester) USA (15s) 1988: 1996 Dave ...
The cross-code challenge met with lukewarm support from both the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Football League. The dates for the games were set for May 1996, which was the end of the domestic rugby union season, but was only a few weeks into the rugby league season (rugby league having made the switch to being a summer game that year).
A dual-code rugby international is a rugby footballer who has played at the senior international level in both codes of rugby, 13-a-side rugby league and 15-a-side rugby union. Rugby league started as a breakaway version of rugby in Northern England in 1895 and in New Zealand and Australia in 1908, and consequently a number of early top-class ...
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]
This category features footballers of all codes, including American football, association football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union. These players switched from one code to another.
After the schism the separate codes were named "rugby union" for the RFU code and "rugby league" for the NU code. [8] In 1906, All Black George William Smith joined with Albert Henry Baskerville to form a team of professional rugby players. George Smith cabled a friend in Sydney and three professional matches were arranged between a New South ...