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Rugby culture

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Leeds Rhinos playing at the 2008 boxing day friendly against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats at Headingley Stadium
Because of its long adherence to amateurism, an ethic considered to have discouraged working class players, rugby union often has a reputation as a middle-class and upper-class game. Exceptions to this occur in New Zealand, [...]
Rugby history

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Rugby School
The legendary story/myth about the origin of Rugby football—whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis “took the ball in his arms [i.e. caught it] and ran,” showing “a fine disregard,” while playing Rugby School’s already distinctive version of football (not to be confused with association football, which was [...]
Rugby Rules

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Distinctive features common to both rugby games include the oval ball and the ban on passing the ball forwards, so that players can gain ground only by running with the ball or by kicking it.
Set-pieces of the union code include the scrum, where packs of opposing players push against each other for [...]
Rugby

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School in England. The two major sports are rugby league and rugby union. American football and Canadian football also originated from Rugby football.
Rugby league and rugby union
Rugby league is played both as a professional and amateur sport [...]
Ancient football games

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

A revived version of Kemari being played at the Tanzan Shrine.
Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.
It describes a practice known as cuju (Traditional Chinese: 蹴鞠; Simplified Chinese: [...]
Football

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. By far the most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which also goes by the name of soccer. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and Rugby league), North American [...]