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

Category: Rugby league terminology

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

Category: Rugby league terminology

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 league: 13

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

* The Rugby Forum, an online forum dedicated to Rugby union and Rugby league.

* 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

The Dartmouth Men's Rugby Team, founded in 1951, has also been ranked among the best collegiate teams in that sport over many years.

Ireland's domestic Rugby League competition has been running since 1997.

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

And also away from the world of Football there are a number of established fanzines, for example Rugby League has such notable publications as Who The Hell Was St. George Anyway?

In Rugby Union the ball may be retained by the forwards and played for a time via the foot in a scrummage ( which Rugby League has as well ) or ruck, or by the hands in a maul, necessitating additional restrictions on play and player positioning during those intervals.

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.

Reed also has several intercollegiate athletic clubs, most notably the Rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, and Soccer teams.

Another sporting team that has adopted the cockerel as its emblem is the National Rugby League team, the Sydney Roosters, in Australia.

* The local rugby union team is Haagsche Rugby Club ( a. k. a. HRC ) and has been in the Guinness Book of Records for becoming Dutch ( in adult and youth ) champions so often.

The RDS has its grounds here, and the Lansdowne Road headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union ( IRFU ) is on the boundary between Ballsbridge and Irishtown.

The school's new Arnold Foundation has been established to enable it to offer similar support to children from outside the Rugby area.

Rugby School has both day and boarding-pupils, the latter in the majority.

In common with most English public schools, Rugby has its own argot, a few words of which are listed below.

The growth of the series has seen motorsport equal Rugby League as Australia's third most watched sport.

Limassol also has an independent civilian Rugby Union team, the Limassol Crusaders, who play at the AEK Achileas Stadium and participate in the Joint Services Rugby League. There is a professional handball team, APEN Agiou Athanasiou.

There are also an association football team, Zug 94, which was formed in 1994 and a Rugby Team, Rugby Club Zug, which has a junior team, The Saints Rugby School.

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.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

), prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School.

Rugby at Central has been quite successful against these and other larger schools.

Languedoc-Roussillon has been a major centre of Rugby league in France since the sport was introduced to the country in the 1930s.

The county government was first organized on April 6, 1889 ; Rugby has always been the county seat.

Blackheath Cricket Club has been part of the sporting fabric of the area, joining forces with Blackheath Rugby Club in 1883 to purchase and develop the Rectory Field as a home ground in Charlton.

Dumfries Saints Rugby Club is one of Scotland's oldest rugby clubs having been admitted to the Scottish Rugby Union in 1876 – 77 as " Dumfries Rangers ".

It has been given a five-star rating by the Rugby League European Federation.

Fifteen former All Blacks have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame ; Sir Fred Allen, Don Clarke, Sean Fitzpatrick, Grant Fox, Dave Gallaher, Michael Jones, Ian Kirkpatrick, Sir John Kirwan, Sir Brian Lochore, Jonah Lomu, Sir Colin Meads, Graham Mourie, George Nepia and Wilson Whineray.

Rugby League is played in all Australian states and territories, but has a much reduced participation in the southern and western states, though there has been a team based in Victoria, the Melbourne Storm, since 1998.

A replacement bassist was immediately appointed: Will Carruthers, a friend of the band who had recently been playing in another Rugby group, ' The Cogs of Tyme '.

The Chelmsford Rugby Football Club was established in 1920 and for the last 40 years have been playing rugby at Coronation Park, Timpsons Lane, Chelmsford.

His grave in " le cimetière du vieux château " at Menton in Alpes Maritimes was rediscovered by Ross McWhirter in 1958 and has since been renovated by the French Rugby Federation.

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.

Subscriptions had been obtained from Lancashire investors and with the imminent completion of the London and Birmingham Railway, they insisted that the line should continue to join it at Rugby, Warwickshire.