* Argentine Rugby Union

Abercarn is home to Abercarn Rugby Club which is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union.

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

Some saw the 1891 team — the first sanctioned by the Rugby Football Union — as the English national team, though others referred to it as " the British Isles ".

It came two years before an inter-club rugby game under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union would be played in England ; though it must be remembered that rugby had been codified 24 years before this in 1845 and played by many schools, universities and clubs even before the laws were first put on paper.

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

This was the venue for home games of both the Irish Rugby Union Team and the Republic of Ireland national football team.

A joint venture between the Irish Rugby Football Union, the FAI and the Government, saw it replaced by a new state-of-the-art 50, 000 seat Aviva Stadium, which opened in May 2010.

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.

The New Zealand team started every match with the Haka, and Welsh Rugby Union administrator Tom Williams, suggested that Wales player Teddy Morgan lead the crowd in the singing of the anthem as a response.

; Harwich & Dovercourt Sailing Club ; Harwich, Dovercourt & Parkeston Swimming Club ; Harwich & Dovercourt Rugby Union Football Club ; Harwich & Dovercourt Cricket Club ; and Harwich Runners who with support from Harwich Swimming Club host the annual Harwich Triathlons.

* Harwich & Dovercourt Rugby Union Football Club

Sport has also been a way that Harry has helped charities and other organisations, such as training as a Rugby Development Officer for the Rugby Football Union in 2004 and then coaching students in schools to encourage them to learn the sport.

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.

The improvements were partly funded by the Welsh Rugby Union ( WRU ).

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There is a tradition within the Lincoln Rugby Union team where it is thought that they are Knights of Minerva, with each match being fought and won in her honour.

* Northern Union ( NU ), early name of the Rugby Football League

Other important events include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871.

The New Zealand 1905 touring team performed a haka before each match, leading Welsh Rugby Union administrator Tom Williams to suggest that Wales player Teddy Morgan lead the crowd in singing the Welsh National Anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, as a response.

In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, one of Scotland's biggest stadiums, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations.

By the 1840s, 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.

William Webb Ellis is often credited with the invention of running with the ball in hand in 1823 at Rugby School when he allegedly caught the ball while playing football and ran towards the opposition goal.

The origin of rugby football is reputed to be an incident during a game of English school football at Rugby School in 1823 when William Webb-Ellis is said to have picked up the ball and run with it.

The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, the Rugby School pupil who – according to a popular myth – invented rugby football by picking up the ball during a game.

There were no standard rules for football during Webb Ellis's time at Rugby ( 1816 – 1825 ) and most varieties involved carrying the ball.

Rugby Fives is played between two players ( singles ) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles ), the aim being to hit the ball above a ' bar ' across the front wall in such a way that the opposition cannot return it before a second bounce.

The sole source of the story of Webb Ellis picking up the ball originates with one Matthew Bloxam, a local antiquarian and former pupil of Rugby.

Among those giving evidence, Thomas Harris and his brother John, who had left Rugby in 1828 and 1832 respectively ( i. e. after the alleged Webb Ellis incident ) recalled that handling of the ball was strictly forbidden.

He is quoted as saying " In my first year, 1834, running with the ball to get a try by touching down within goal was not absolutely forbidden, but a jury of Rugby boys of that day would almost certainly have found a verdict of ' justifiable homicide ' if a boy had been killed in running in.

* Written version of Rugby School football rules which allow the ball to be carried and passed by hand.

In Eton Fives the ball is softer and lighter than in Rugby or Winchester fives, and the gloves are fairly thin.

When the first uniform rules for American football were enacted by the newly-formed Intercollegiate Football Association just following the 1876 Rugby season, a touchdown counted for 1 / 4 of a kicked goal ( except in the case of a tie ) plus it allowed the offense the chance to kick for goal by placekick or dropkick from a spot along a line perpendicular to the goal line and passing through the point where the ball was touched down, or through a process known as a " punt-out ", where the attacking team would kick the ball from the point where it was touched down to a teammate.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris decorated with a giant rugby ball for the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

Bloxam is the sole source of the story that William Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a game of football at Rugby School thus originating the game of Rugby football.

In October 1876, in an effort to refute the assertion that carrying the ball had been an ancient tradition, he wrote to The Meteor, the Rugby School magazine, that he had learnt from an unnamed source that the change from a kicking game to a handling game had ".. originated with a town boy or foundationer of the name of Ellis, William Webb Ellis ".

In some games, such as association football or hockey, the object is to pass the ball between the posts below the crossbar, while in others, such as those based on Rugby, the ball must pass over the crossbar instead.

Rugby union and league differ slightly in defining ' grounding the ball ' and the ' in-goal ' area.

The town's Rugby Union football team was formed in 1881 by men who came to the area to build the railway and dig the docks, and continued until 1908 when the Hartlepool Union's round ball game was in vogue.

Nuclei may also have extreme shapes ( similar to that of Rugby balls ) or extreme neutron-to-proton ratios.

They may cover a range of sport at an international level, like the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, like the Rugby Football League.

It is also fair to say that cross country running may have begun at Rugby School.

Rugby may refer to:

Depending on the venue and scheduling of the quadrennial Rugby World Cup Sevens, one of the tournaments may be folded into the World Cup.

The document says literally: " Council agreed that these Leisure Rugby Laws are issued as a guide for developmental purposes and Unions are not bound to apply the Laws " and " IRB Leisure Rugby Laws have been designed so that Unions may develop non-Contact Rugby.

This may also occur if there is a significant difference in class between the two teams, for example, when Scotland beat Spain ( who were playing in their only Rugby World Cup ) 48 – 0 in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, or when Australia beat Namibia 142 – 0 in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Victor Matfield believes the victory will give the Springboks a psychological advantage over the French as they may meet in the knock out stages of the Rugby World Cup 2011.

: Rugby may be more clever,

In 2010 Haden was given the honorary position of Rugby World Cup Ambassador, but resigned this post after making controversial statements about a racial quota he alleged the Canterbury Crusaders to be operating, calling Polynesians " darkies ", and then suggesting women raped by sports stars may be partly to blame.

Soon to launch with Overseas rights in Spanish, Mandarin & French rights to the Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield & League Cup and also may cover Premiership Rugby.

The schedule may be adjusted somewhat in World Cup years ; this was especially true in the 2007 – 08 season, which ran up against the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France.

Rugby football positions may refer to:

Rugby League Charity Shield may refer to:

The Canadian Rugby Union may refer to:

In 2005, in the midst of the tug-of-war for the AFL television rights, PBL announced that National Rugby League games will take precedence on the station over AFL games, a sign that Nine may have be about to give up the race for the rights to a proposed Seven-Ten consortium, which they did, but not without putting in a $ 780 million dollar bid for the rights.

He was known for his strong tackling, described by an 1892 publication, Football, the Rugby Union Game, as " exceedingly severe ", while Gilbert Jessop joked that an opponent may prefer to be hit by a motor-car than tackled by Woods in a close match.

At the conclusion of a successful season for Eastwood there was speculation that cricket may be put aside for Rugby, but he opted to play cricket.

Rugby league may have fewer than 5, 000 registered players but details are sketchy.