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.

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* 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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

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.

Rugby is also popular in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Other popular fictional works that use the concept of virtual reality include William Gibson's Neuromancer which defined the concept of cyberspace, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants, in which programmer Jerzy Rugby uses VR for robot design and testing.

Rugby Union is particularly popular in the region.

Hereford Rugby Club is also a popular local team.

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

* Rugby Union is very popular in the county.

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

Rugby union is a popular sport in the area with the local clubs being Vale of Lune RUFC and Lancaster CATS.

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 ).

Every year the popular Can Am Rugby Tournament, the largest such tournament in the Western Hemisphere, is held in the village.

Rugby league is the most popular winter sport in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.

Nine's other popular recurring sporting events include the Rugby League State of Origin, British Open, US Golf Open, US Tennis Open, Wimbledon, the French Open, KFC Twenty20, Commonwealth Bank Series Cricket, and Test cricket and formerly the Australian Swimming Championships until Nine lost the rights in 2009.

The College also has strong teams in Rugby Union and Table Tennis, and fields teams in most popular sports.

On the north side of Rugby, the Clear Fork joins White Oak Creek to form a natural pool known as " The Meeting of the Waters " that has been a popular hiking destination since the colony's early days.

Other popular sports include golf, mostly popular among the older demographic ; tennis, in which Denmark is successful on a professional level ; Danish Rugby Union, which dates back to 1950 ; and indoor sports such as badminton, handball and various forms of gymnastics.

Like the rest of New Zealand, Rugby Union is a popular sport in the winter.

Rugby Union was historically the most popular code in this town, with two teams, Newton-le-Willows RUFC and Vulcan RUFC being prominent teams in the South Lancashire and Cheshire leagues.

Rugby union is considered the second most popular sport in Georgia, after football.

Initially widely popular, the code would later assume secondary popularity in Sydney, when in 1907, the New South Wales Rugby League was established and would grow to be the favourite football code of the city.

Rugby was so popular that in 1902 there was a temporary ceasefire in the Second Boer War so that a game could be played between British and Boer forces.