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Rugby (England)

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 it instead of kicking it. Other English schools and universities adopted the style in the mid-19th cent. In 1871 the English Rugby Union was formed to standardize the game. Rugby was introduced (1875) into the United States, but faded as football developed. In 1895 an argument in England over... Read more
Rugby
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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
The Oxford Companion to British History ...breakaway union, which became the Rugby Football League in 1922. The...would attract spectators. Rugby league also gave rise to a...of amateur clubs. The first rugby union international match...1871 between Scotland and England, and the Calcutta Cup was...competitions in the 1980s. Rugby ... Read more

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