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Rugby football
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
A rugby scrum in 1871. In Britain, by 1870, there were about 75 clubs playing variations of the Rugby school game, including Blackheath (founded in 1858 and arguably the world’s oldest surviving, non-university rugby club). There were also “rugby” clubs in Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. However, there was no generally accepted set of [...]
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The Football Association
Friday, April 15th, 2011
The first football international, Scotland versus England. Once kept by the Rugby Football Union as an early example of rugby football. During the early 1860s, there were increasing attempts in England to unify and reconcile the various public school games. In 1862, J. C. Thring, who had been one of the driving forces behind the [...]
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Ice hockey penalties
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Altercations often occur near the goal after a stoppage of play, since defensive players are extremely concerned with protecting their goaltender. All rulebooks call for penalties if an offensive player interferes with a goaltender’s ability to defend the goal. A typical game of ice hockey has two to four officials on the ice charged with [...]
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Games descended from Rugby School rules
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Rugby football Rugby League Rugby Union Rugby Sevens Touch Rugby — a variant of rugby league replacing tackles with a touch. Also call Touch Football or Touch Footy. Tag Rugby — a form of non-contact rugby league using a velcro tag to indicate a tackle. OzTag — a form of Tag Rugby played in Australia. [...]
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Players, equipment and officials in soccer
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Pavel Nedvěd Each team consists of a maximum of eleven players (excluding substitutes), one of whom must be the goalkeeper. Competition rules may state a minimum number of players required to constitute a team; this is usually seven. Goalkeepers are the only players allowed to play the ball with their hands or arms, but they [...]
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Rules and regulations in basketball
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Measurements and time limits discussed in this section often vary among tournaments and organizations; international and NBA rules are used in this section. The object of the game is to outscore one’s opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents’ basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. An attempt [...]
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Snooker fouls
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Action from The Masters Tournament in 2007 A foul is a shot or action by the striker which is against the rules of the game. When a foul is made during a shot, the player’s turn is ended and he will receive no points for the foul shot. The other player will receive penalty points. [...]
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Golf rules and other regulations
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Strandhill Golf Club in Ireland is an example of a coastal links course. The rules of golf [1] [2] are internationally standardised and are jointly governed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A), which was founded 1754 and the United States Golf Association (USGA). By agreement with the R&A, USGA jurisdiction [...]
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History and development of soccer
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Map showing the popularity of association football around the world. Countries where association football is the most popular sport are coloured green, while countries where it is not are coloured red. The various shades of green and red indicate the number of players per 1,000 inhabitants. Games revolving around the kicking of a ball have [...]
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Marquess of Queensberry rules in boxing
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Headgear is mandatory in Olympic boxing In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for Olympic championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights. The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them. There were twelve [...]
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Rules and equipment of biathlon
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Andrea Nahrgang prepares to shoot from the prone position at the 2002 Winter Olympics. The complete rules of biathlon is given in the official IBU rule book. However, the concise description given below, along with the section on competition format, should be enough for a spectator to understand what is going on at a biathlon [...]
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Foundation of the modern game in ice hockey
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
The original Stanley Cup, in the Hockey Hall of Fame vault. The development of the modern game centred on Montreal. On March 3, 1875 the first organized indoor game was played there, as recorded in the Montreal Gazette. In 1877, McGill University students, James Creighton, Henry Joseph, Richard F. Smith, W.F. Robertson, and W.L. Murray [...]
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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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Nature of the football game
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal. Football is played in accordance with a set of rules, known as the Laws of the Game. The game is played using a single round ball (the football), and two teams of eleven players each compete to get the ball into the other team’s [...]
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London Prize Ring rules (1743)
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
The beginnings of the modern right cross demonstrated in Edmund Price’s The Science of Self Defense: A Treatise on Sparring and Wrestling, 1867 Records of boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Roman Empire. The sport would later resurface in England during the early 18th century in the form of bare-knuckle prizefighting. The first [...]
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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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Soccer
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The striker (wearing the red shirt) is past the defence (in the white shirts) and is about to take a shot at the goal. The goalkeeper will attempt to stop the ball from entering the goal. Association football, soccer, or simply football, is a team sport played between two teams each consisting of 11 players and [...]