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Rugby (England) Rugby (England)
Rugby town (1991 pop. 59,039), Warwickshire, central England. An important railroad junction and engineering center, Rugby is the seat of one of England's most esteemed public schools. Rugby School was founded in 1567 under the terms of the will of Laurence Sheriff, a wealthy Rugby-born London... Read more
rugby football rugby football
rugby football. William Webb Ellis is credited with inventing rugby in 1823 by picking up the ball while playing football at Rugby School and running with it. The claim is much disputed but there is little doubt that rugby developed at public schools out of a large-scale, few-rules, mauling scrum... Read more
Rugby School Rugby School
Rugby School is a boys' public school founded by Laurence Sheriff, a merchant grocer of London, in 1567. Originally built opposite the parish church, the school became unfit for use in 1748 and was rebuilt on its present site consisting of a school house, quad, chapel, and a magnificent playing... Read more
rugby rugby
rugby game that originated (1823), according to tradition, on the playing fields of Rugby, England. It is related to both soccer and American football . The game is said to have started when a Rugby School student named William Webb Ellis playing soccer picked up the ball and ran downfield with... Read more
Gaelic football Gaelic football
Gaelic football received its first set of codified rules in 1885, following the founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association in the previous year. References from the 17th century onwards describe a form of football being played in Ireland, in which carrying the ball, as well as kicking it, was... Read more
Thomas Arnold Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold 1795-1842, English educator, b. Isle of Wight, educated at Winchester school and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1815 to 1819, was ordained deacon in 1818, and was from 1827 to 1842 headmaster of Rugby school, where he brought about... Read more
public school public school
public school in the United States, a tax-supported elementary or high school open to anyone. In England the term was originally applied to grammar schools endowed for the use of the lay public; however, it has come to be used for the famous endowed preparatory schools that now charge tuition. The... Read more
fives fives
fives. The game of fives, in a rough form, certainly dates back to Tudor times, though the derivation of the name is unclear. The essential ingredients are a hard ball, gloves to protect the hands, which are used instead of rackets, and a wall or court. Its modern form derives from versions played... Read more
English English
English ETHNONYM: Engl Orientation Identification. England, unlike Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, does not constitutionally exist, and thus it has no separate rights, administration, or official statistics. The Church of England is its main distinctive institution. The English... Read more
Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), founded 1884 by Michael Cusack (1847–1906). Cusack, a teacher and one‐time enthusiast for cricket and rugby, had become disillusioned with the social exclusiveness of existing sporting bodies and the association of sport and gambling, and was also... Read more

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Lucky Scotland; Nelson Bays 25 Scotland 25.(Rugby)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) ...a try right at the death at Nelson's Trafalgar Park. The Scots...impose their game on a committed Nelson outfit, although there was...second try. The Scots were rocking at that point, not helped...last-gasp effort to earn Nelson Bays a deserved share of ...
Rugby: Lucky Scotland ; Nelson Bays 25 Scotland 25
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) ...a try right at the death at Nelson's Trafalgar Park.The Scots...impose their game on a committed Nelson outfit, although there was...second try. The Scots were rocking at that point, not helped...last-gasp effort to earn Nelson Bays a deserved share of the...
Rocking musical a feather in showgirls' sequinned caps.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (South Africa) ...Sharkettes, raise the rugger buggers at Sharks' games. The rugby link runs in Mann's family. Her two sisters are dating scrumhalf...is in a very safe place) is one of those limited editions of Nelson Mandela's hand print and prints of children. Probably a better...
The Rat - stunning, humming, rocking.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa) ...that dark drive from the delights of Dutch victory at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium was supposed to be taking me away from the...Bafana Bafana had become Ba-Ghana Ba-Ghana. Even devoted rugby fans in the Rat appeared to accept their roles as continental...
A Whole New Ball Game
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly ...isn't really about rugby at all. It's about...Morgan Freeman inhabits Nelson Mandela here as a force...Pienaar (Matt Damon, rocking a South African accent and bulked up to rugby size), and starts to...Morgan Freeman inhabits Nelson Mandela ...
England devour Springbok.(Leisure)
Newspaper article from: Post (South Africa) ...36-0 during their rugby World Cup encounter...The venue was the Lord Nelson Room at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town...fact that despite their rugby loss at Stade de France...Culture will get the party rocking until the wee hours...
SPO: Briefs AM Sunday Nov 10, 2002
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia) ...wickets against England. RUGBY AUST (DUBLIN) Ireland...slippery conditions in the rugby Test at Landsdowne Road...BROWNLIE. GOLF AUST (NELSON BAY, NSW) Queenslanders...for the tournament. RUGBY NZ (LONDON) England...opening two rounds before ...
Legs 11 apart, did Sir Bernard earn his pet name by lapping up the bunny hop?
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ...Africa where his son is on a rugby tour and he and a mate head...There is clearly a touch of Nelson Mandela in the lad even if he...tortures of watching Moseley play rugby. Dick is hobbling and would...chicks? What a babe. And still rocking after all these ...
Wheels come off as another dream of sporting glory turns to dust
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman ...England's defeat in Paris in the Rugby World Cup on Saturday, Hamilton...possibility England could win the Rugby World Cup and a British driver...into neutral. He could be seen rocking in his McLaren, virtually willing...are foremost my father, then Nelson ...
Ref awards a death penalty; THE WEEK IN 60 SECONDS, REVIEW.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) ...sterling]250,000 in Lancashire. Horatio Nelson's great-great-great-granddaughter...poll. The BBC upheld complaints against rugby commentator Brian Moore for propagating...his timetable. Police investigating a rocking car at a Malawi airport caught a Zambian...

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