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A scrummage in a La soule game in Basse Normandie, France, 1852.. The history of rugby union follows from various football games long before the 19th century, but it was not until the middle of that century that the rules were formulated and codified.
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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 ...
Although Argentina is the best-known rugby playing nation in South America, founding the Argentine Rugby Union in 1899, [129] several other countries on the continent have a long history. Rugby had been played in Brazil since the end of the 19th century, but the game was played regularly only from 1926, when São Paulo beat Santos in an inter ...
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