* Austin Healey ( born 1973 ), English rugby union player

Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Category: Argentine rugby union teams

* Adrian Lungu ( born 1960 ), Romanian rugby union footballer

* Adrian Stoop ( 1883 – 1957 ), English rugby union player

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

Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.

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

The British and Irish Lions ( formerly known as the British Isles and the British Lions ) is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Combined rugby union sides from the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland toured in the Southern Hemisphere from 1888 onwards.

Three years after the first tour, the Western Province union invited rugby bodies in Britain to tour South Africa.

Aviron Bayonnais is the city's rugby union club, founded in 1904 and French champions three times, in 1913, 1934 and 1943.

* Imanol Harinordoquy ( born 1980 ), French international rugby union player ( born in Bayonne, but grew up in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port )

* Manitoba Buffalo, a Canadian rugby union team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba

* Vientiane Buffalos RUFC, a semi-pro rugby union football club from Vientiane, Lao P. D. R., consisting mostly of expatriate players

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

The rules that they agreed upon were essentially those of rugby union at the time with the exception that points be awarded for scoring a try, not just the conversion afterwards ( extra point ).

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

View from the Stamford Bridge ( stadium )# West_Stand | West Stand of Stamford Bridge ( stadium ) | Stamford Bridge during a UEFA Champions League | Champions League game, 2008 In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

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

:* Central Coast Waves, a rugby union team playing in the Shute Shield

* 1977 – Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union footballer

* 1972 – Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby union player

* 1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer ( d. 2001 )

* 1985 – Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer

A large athlete at and, Bingham also played for the gay-inclusive rugby union team San Francisco Fog RFC.

* San Isidro Club, an Argentine rugby union club

The first Rugby Union international at the San Siro took place when Italy played New Zealand national rugby union team in the 2009 end of year rugby tests.

The largest rugby scrum consisted of 738 participants and was achieved by the Team Ronan Rugby Challenge ( USA ) at the Cathedral Catholic School in San Diego, California, USA on 9 June 2012.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

The San Marino team represents the nation at rugby, and the " Rugby Club San Marino " also plays in the Italian leagues.

The Little Q is a sports field, used primarily for rugby located adjacent to Qualcomm Stadium, the Little Q is home to San Diego's Super League rugby team OMBAC and the College Premier Division San Diego State University Aztec rugby team.

Ronan John Ross O ' Gara ( born 7 March 1977 in San Diego, California ) is an Irish rugby union player, playing at fly-half for both Munster and Ireland.

Formal rugby union was played, largely by British immigrants, as early as 1872, when there were rugby clubs flourishing in the San Francisco Bay Area, composed mainly of British expatriates.

On December 2, 1882, the first Californian representative rugby team to play an outside opponent, took on a group of rugby-playing ex-Britons, who called themselves the Phoenix Rugby Club of San Francisco.

San Isidro is the national capital of Rugby and home to two of the most important rugby clubs in the country-SIC ( San Isidro Club ) and CASI ( Club Atlético San Isidro ).

* Club de Rugby San Roque, a rugby club that was founded in 1971 in Valencia, Spain

Following in the tradition of International Gay Rugby and Board teams like Kings Cross Steelers in England in 1995 and the San Francisco Fog RFC and the Washington Renegades in 2000, recent part-time New York City business owner and resident, Mark Bingham, discussed with local rugby player Scott Glaessgen how to form a New York team.

Rugby was not played at the club until 1907, although it would later become the most representative sport of the club, winning 34 local titles to date, which makes Club Atlético San Isidro the most successful rugby team of Argentina.

Within rugby community, San Isidro is mostly known for its acronym " CASI " instead of full name.

The Harvard students took to the rugby rules and adopted them as their own, travelling to Montreal to play a further game of rugby in the Fall of the same year winning by three tries to nil.

This play is part of the game's rugby heritage, and was largely made obsolete when the ball with pointed ends was adopted.

The university's colours of gold and black were officially adopted in 1887, after the rugby team led the debate about the college colours for the football jerseys.

However, in recent years, the Wolfhound has been adopted as a symbol by both rugby codes, which are organised on an All-Ireland basis.

Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji, Georgia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales.

It was adopted as a nickname or mascot by a number of South African sports teams, most famously by the national rugby union team.

Boyce was also a big rugby union fan, and through him it then began to be adopted by Welsh rugby union crowds at international matches.

The chant has also been adopted by the fans of newly promoted English rugby union premiership side, the Exeter Chiefs.

Yale loses 4 – 0, but finds that it prefers Harvard's adopted rugby style game.

Newport RFC were formed in 1874 under the financial backing of the Phillips brewing family, and the playing talents of former pupils of Monmouth School, a public school which had adopted rugby union in 1873.

In addition, the four Welsh regional sides in rugby union's Pro 12 have unilaterally adopted a salary cap effective with the 2012 – 13 season.

Although the Springbok was adopted briefly by the first coloured national rugby team in 1939 and by their first black counterparts in 1950, it became exclusively associated with segregated sporting codes afterwards.

The modern rugby union scrummage and ruck, the rugby league play-the-ball ( also referred to as a " ruck "), and the American football snap and scrimmage ( later adopted by Canadian football ) were all derivatives of the early scrummage, and responsive in different ways to problems encountered in the way the rules regarding it were written and administered.

It was originally more closely related to rugby until the Burnside rules were adopted.

Lelo has been adopted as the Georgian word for " try " ( the highest-valued score in rugby ).

The school adopted the rugby code of football in 1923, at which time it was played on soccer pitches ; the first games against other schools were played during the 1925 – 26 season, and rugby was played by all students by 1927.

The Headingley name was adopted in 1878 and Cardigan Fields was used for both rugby and cricket.

The term association football has never been widely used, although in Britain some clubs in rugby football strongholds adopted the suffix Association Football Club ( A. F. C.

On May 14, 1874, the England Rugby Union rules were adopted to play rugby in Argentina.

Wales had in effect begun to mimic the systems adopted by England and Scotland, that rugby should be nurtured from youth, through adolescence to adulthood.

Until 1995 the team was simply titled Barrow RLFC, but they adopted the nickname Barrow Braves to coincide with rugby league ’ s switch to a summer season.