William Webb Ellis Cup.(News)

From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) | Date: November 22, 2003 | Copyright information

ENGLAND and Australia were battling out today for the William Webb Ellis Cup.

n Legend has it schoolboy William Webb Ellis picked up a football and ran with it during a game at Rugby school in 1823, thereby inventing the game.

Some sports historians claim that the true founding father of rug by was Jem Mackie, another pupil of Rugby school, who was famed for his powerful running with the ball.

n Little is known of the later life of Webb Ellis, who ...

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