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Rugby league and association football were not the only early competitors to rugby union. In the late 19th century, a number of "national" football codes emerged around the world, including Australian rules football (originating in Victoria), Gaelic football (Ireland), and the gridiron codes: American and Canadian football. [citation needed]
Rugby union in Cornwall (before 1900) is a timeline of rugby union in Cornwall in the 19th century. History. Richard Carew in his Survey of Cornwall (1602) ...
Years of the 19th century in rugby union (47 C) This page was last edited on 10 April 2020, at 16:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Category: Years of the 19th century in rugby union. ... 1900 in rugby union (4 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 14 September 2020, at 03:21 (UTC) ...
Rochdale Hornets team of 1875, one of the early rugby football clubs that then switched to rugby league. Although many forms of football had been played across the world, it was only during the second half of the 19th century that these games began to be codified.
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 sport has changed since it left behind its amateur roots 25 years ago.
1.1 19th century. 1.2 20th century. 1.3 21st century. 2 See also. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This page indexes the individual year in rugby union ...