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 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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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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association football and Gaelic football a prolate spheroid (elongated sphere) either with rounded ends: used in the rugby codes and Australian football or with...
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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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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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sports rugby union and rugby league have shared origins and thus many similarities. Initially, following the 1895 split in rugby football, rugby union...
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In rugby league football, the Laws of the Game are the rules governing how the sport is played. The Laws are the responsibility of the Rugby League International...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A rugby ball is an elongated ellipsoidal ball used in both codes of rugby football. Its measurements and weight are specified by World Rugby and the Rugby...
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football rules, and rugby football (1845). British public schools football also directly influenced the rules of association football. English public schools...
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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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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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Like most forms of modern football, rugby league football is played outdoors on a rectangular grass field with goals at each end that are attacked and...
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State of Origin series (redirect from State of Origin, Rugby League)
dominated by Queenslanders, the Australian Rugby League Board of Control informed the media that the Rugby Football League had decided that the Kiwis would...
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is a Welsh former rugby footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and who represented his nation in both rugby union and rugby league. A goal-kicking...
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Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. (redirect from Bradford Rugby Club)
Bradford Football Club, playing rugby football, and achieved its first major success by winning the Yorkshire Cup in 1884. A member of the Rugby Football Union...
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