Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire...
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Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in...
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rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football...
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The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for rugby league in England. Founded in 1895 as the Northern Rugby Football Union following 22 clubs...
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Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred...
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The history of rugby union follows from various football games long before the 19th century, but it was not until the middle of that century that the...
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used in association football and Gaelic football A prolate spheroid (elongated sphere), used in the rugby codes and Australian football A lemon, used in...
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Rugby football positions may refer to: Rugby league positions Rugby union positions This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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West Division (CFL) (redirect from Western Canada Rugby Football Union)
organized football club in Western Canada was the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club which was founded in 1879. At the time the sport was generally called rugby or...
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World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised...
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Test match (redirect from Test match (rugby football))
Test match (indoor cricket) Test match (rugby union) Test match (rugby league) Test match (association football) Test match (netball) Test Match (board...
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sports rugby union and rugby league share origins and thus have many similarities. Initially, following an 1895 split in rugby football, rugby union and...
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List of international rugby football teams may refer to: List of international rugby union teams List of International Rugby League members This disambiguation...
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The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) (Irish: Cumann Rugbaí na hÉireann) is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland...
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Canadian Rugby Football Union, a body established in 1884 that now governs amateur Canadian football as Football Canada; and the now-defunct Rugby Union...
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Amateur sports (redirect from Amateur football)
whilst at the same time the Rugby Football Union (RFU) was allowing other players to be paid.[citation needed] Rugby football, despite its origins in the...
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the national governing body for rugby union in England. It was founded in 1871, and was the sport's international governing...
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Home Nations (section Rugby union)
by a council representing the island of Ireland, such as the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the term can refer to the nations of the constituent countries...
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Winger (sports) (redirect from Winger (rugby union))
In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, winger is a position. It refers to positions...
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in football comes from the earlier sport of rugby, where the word was used in the 19th century. Unlike other codes, tackles in association football have...
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bishops, poets, scientists, writers and soldiers. Rugby School is the birthplace of rugby football. Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the...
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themselves, or continue to refer to themselves, as simply a "football club", or as a "rugby football club". "Club" has always meant an independent entity and...
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the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, the Boland Rugby Union, the Border Rugby Football Union, the Eastern Province Rugby Union, the Free State Rugby Union, the Golden...
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students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as rugby football. The game...
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Canadian Rugby Union may refer to: Football Canada, the governing body of amateur Canadian football in Canada, previously known as the Canadian Rugby Union...
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Look up Rugby or rugby in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rugby may refer to: Rugby football in many forms: Rugby union: 15 players per side American...
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The England men's national rugby union team represents the Rugby Football Union in men's international rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations...
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of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union...
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2027 Men's Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the eleventh edition of the Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams...
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1910 in sports (section Rugby league)
The Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union adopts CRU rules Interprovincial Rugby Football Union - Hamilton Tigers Ontario Rugby Football Union - Toronto Athletic...
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