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.

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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

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

In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it is traditional for the Premier League, Scottish Premier League and Irish Premier League respectively, as well as the lower divisions and rugby leagues, to hold a full programme of football and Rugby League matches on Boxing Day.

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

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.

Edinburgh is also home to RBS Premier One rugby teams Heriot's Rugby Club, Boroughmuir RFC, the Edinburgh Academicals and Currie RFC.

Hawick is known for its yearly Common Riding, for its rugby team Hawick Rugby Football Club and for its knitwear industry.

The town is the home of Hawick Rugby Football Club and a senior football team, Hawick Royal Albert, who currently play in the East of Scotland Football League.

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

* 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

The newest implementation of MUMPS, released in April 2002, is an MSM derivative called M21 from the Real Software Company of Rugby, UK.

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.

North Dakota is situated near the middle of North America with a stone marker in Rugby, North Dakota marking the " Geographic Center of the North American Continent ".

This hero of his book is Thomas Arnold, and on his second visit in 1886, Coubertin reflected on Arnold's influence in the chapel at Rugby School.

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

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.

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

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.

Despite the anecdotal nature of the sport's origin, the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.

The ceremony was held at the home that he and his wife Frances shared with his parents on 4300 Rugby Road, where he did most of his writing.

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

Rugby increased in size and audience, as the Rugby World Cup became the third most watched sporting event in the world with the 2007 Rugby World Cup organized in France.

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

It is most commonly believed to be derived from Wessex Fives, a game played by Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby, who had played Wessex Fives when a boy at Lord Weymouth's Grammer, now Warminster School.

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.

The most popular sport on Aitutaki is Rugby union and netball, followed closely by volleyball.

The current Super Rugby playoff involves six teams — the winners of each of three conferences ( Australia, New Zealand and South Africa conferences ), plus the three non-winners with the most competition points without regard to conference affiliation.

Rugby union is the " national " sport in Languedoc, unlike most other parts of France where football is more popular.

However, Blackheath is perhaps most famous for founding the Blackheath Rugby Club in 1858, which is the oldest documented rugby club in England and located on Charlton Road.

Limerick is widely regarded to be the Irish spiritual home of Rugby union which is very popular in the county, but is mostly focused around Limerick city, which boasts many of Ireland's most celebrated All-Ireland League teams ; Garryowen, Shannon, Old Crescent, Young Munster are among the most prominent.

While football is definitely the most popular, rugby union and rugby league takes dominance in the southwest, especially around the city of Toulouse ( see: Rugby union in France and Rugby league in France ).

Betfair now has information-sharing agreements with most racing bodies in Australia and most major professional sports, including the Australian Football League, the National Rugby League, the Australian Rugby Union, Football Federation Australia, Cricket Australia, the PGA Tour of Australasia and Tennis Australia.

Shaw Cross Sharks are perhaps the most famous amateur Rugby League club in the area.

Such systems still exist in Buckinghamshire, Rugby and Stratford districts of Warwickshire, the Salisbury district of Wiltshire, Gloucester and Stroud in Gloucestershire and most of Lincolnshire, Kent, Reading and Medway.

His mother subsequently returned to England, where Lewis was educated, first at Rugby School, then at the Slade School of Art, University College, London, before spending most of the 1900s travelling around Europe and studying art in Paris.