In 1966, preservationists formed Historic Rugby, a non-profit group dedicated to restoring and maintaining the community's surviving historic structures, which include the Christ Church Episcopal, the Thomas Hughes Library, the Rugby School, Kingstone Lisle, Uffington House, and Newbury House.

The city provides dedicated sports facilities for motor racing, Rugby League ( part of Group 10 ), Rugby Union, AFL, Athletics, Cricket, Netball, Tennis, Football and Touch Football.

Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium ( 近鉄花園ラグビー場, Kintetsu Hanazono Ragubī-jō ) in Higashiosaka is the oldest dedicated rugby union stadium in Japan.

The park contains the Soldiers ' Memorial on top of the hill was dedicated in 1922 and an RSL memorial is located near the Memorial gates on Sylvan Road, and also contains the Western Districts Rugby Football Club and a Basketball centre.

Aberdare Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team formed in 1890 which still play in Aberdare today at the Ynys Stadium.

Rugby union player Jone Tawake also had a finger removed.

He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas.

Bundaberg Rum is a major sponsor of the Australian Wallabies rugby union team and also sponsors the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series.

** Canterbury Rugby Football Union, the governing body for rugby union in the central Canterbury region

:* Central Coast Rays, a rugby union club playing in the Australian Rugby Championship

Rugby union team Leinster Rugby play their home games in the RDS Arena & the Aviva Stadium.

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The Scotland national rugby union team plays at Murrayfield Stadium, which is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and is also used as a venue for other events, including music concerts.

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The main types of football that are played are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, Rugby league, and Rugby union.

* Rugby union: 15

* GPS Rugby, an Australian rugby union club

Originally built for the Central Coast Bears team in the NRL rugby league competition ( to this day, the seats are arranged to say ' Go Bears '), since 2005 it is now the home of the Central Coast Mariners A-League association football team and was the home venue of the Central Coast Rays rugby union Australian Rugby Championship team

Hanover is also one of the Rugby union capitals in Germany.

The national rugby league team are nicknamed the wolfhounds, and the Irish Rugby Football Union, which governs rugby union, changed the name of the country's A ( second-level ) national team in that code to the Ireland Wolfhounds in 2010.

* 1984 – Nanyak Dala, Canadian Rugby union player

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century.

In 1845, the first football laws were written by Rugby School pupils ; other significant events in the early development of rugby include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the split between rugby union and rugby league in 1895.

Rugby union is played in over 100 countries across six continents and as of November 2010 118 unions were members of the IRB.

They play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division Two East league.

* Cumberland ( rugby league team ), a team in the inaugural New South Wales Rugby League competition

:* Central Coast Division of Country Rugby League, an association operating junior rugby league

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Edinburgh Eagles are a rugby league team who play in the Rugby League Conference Scotland Division.

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* Des Hasler – Former Rugby league player, NSW & Australian representative player, 1987 & 1996 Manly Sea Eagles premiership player, 2008 & 2011 Manly Sea Eagles premiership coach

Upon hearing of this, Crowe called Carr and invited him to Australia to address his Rugby league team the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an offer Carr took Crowe up on the following summer.

* 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895 – 96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

* September 7 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895 – 96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

* November 6 – The Halifax Rugby league Club is founded.

Benetton Rugby has since become a major force in Italian rugby, with 11 league titles and supplying many players to the national team.

* Crusaders Rugby League, a Welsh rugby league club ( formerly the " Celtic Crusaders ").

* Harlequins Rugby League, an English rugby league club once known as " London Crusaders "

* Annandale ( rugby league team ), a former team in the New South Wales Rugby League competition