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Advancing the ball in American football
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
A quarterback searching for opportunity to throw a pass. Advancing the ball in American football resembles the six-tackle rule and the play-the-ball in rugby league football. The team that takes possession of the ball (the offense) has four attempts, called downs, to advance the ball 10 yards towards their opponent’s (the defense‘s) end zone. When [...]
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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, Wales, the Borders region [...]
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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 codified much later) in [...]
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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 possession, and [...]
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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 in [...]
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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: 蹴踘; Pinyin: [...]
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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 football (American and Canadian), [...]