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 Christ's College Rugby Football Club ( CCRFC ) was founded in 1875 by Alfred Cort Haddon, considered the father of modern anthropology.

He is generally considered to be the source for the character of George Arthur in Thomas Hughes's well-known book Tom Brown's Schooldays which is based on Rugby.

South African Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins considered the number of non-white players in the 2007 World Cup squad too low, and in 2008 the first non-white coach of the side was appointed.

Their Senior Boys Rugby Team is considered the top in the city 06-08.

With lineups including Mark Harris, Elwyn Walters, John Brass, Bill Mullins, Russell Fairfax, Johnny Mayes, John Peard, Ron Coote, Ian Schubert and captain Arthur Beetson, the Centenary of Rugby League panel considered the Roosters of 1974 and 1975 to be among the greatest club teams of all time.

Although these matches are considered to be Tests by the New Zealand Rugby League and the English Rugby Football League, they are not recognised by the Australian Rugby League.

Romania had been given ' second tier ' status by the International Rugby Board ( IRB ), meaning greater funding and integration into the international calendar, while Russia were at the time considered a third tier nation.

He considered playing for Wales at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup due to his Welsh heritage.

They were then reformed as Ponty Rugby Ltd playing at a semi professional level in the newly formed Welsh Premiership and unpopularly placed under the umbrella of local rivals Cardiff Blues by the WRU, Pontypridd continue to be the top team in the Glamorganshire south Wales Valleys and are considered by many of their fans to be the Valleys ' regional representative side, with Cardiff still perceived by the residents of the Valleys as rivals.

Rugby union is the national sport of Wales and is considered a large part of national culture.

Long considered one of the stronger European teams outside the Six Nations, they have participated in all six Rugby World Cups, and currently compete in the first division of the European Nations Cup, where most recently in the 2008 – 2010 competition they finished third.

For example, in Haris v Bulldogs Rugby League Club Limited the court considered the social utility of holding football matches when determining whether a football club took sufficient precautions to protect spectators from the risk of being struck by fireworks set off as part of the entertainment during a game.

Salford were considered the leading club in the game during the 1930s, winning three League Championships, five Lancashire League Championships, four Lancashire Cups and the Rugby League Challenge Cup.

In Thailand, at Vajiravudh College considered to be the country's best boarding school built by King Rama VI ( King Vajiravudh ) in 1910, the " tramp of twenty two men " became " The Might of Thirty Best Men " in reference to the school's supremacy in Rugby.

The programming lineup on the Sports Australia service was generally considered superior to that of its rival, Fox Sports Australia, with the AFL, Australian Rugby League premiership, the Australian National Soccer League, the FA Premier League, and Sheffield Shield cricket.

Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, was considered an Aussie rules stronghold, the home of the oldest Aussie Rules Football league ( and the oldest of any code ) ( SANFL ) in Australia ; and a viable Rugby Union competition since 1932 The South Australian Rugby League also had a First Grade Premiership competition in place since 1976 while league been played competitively in Adelaide since the late 1940s.

There was much support from both players and locals for the new team and this was considered an achievement in itself for the New South Wales Rugby League.

The Rugby League Conference ( played in summer ) has many grass roots teams but is considered ' open ' rather than amateur though most teams do not pay their players.

Rugby league is considered by most English people to be a regional sport, which perhaps prevents rugby league making further inroads in to the English psyche in the South, and those cities which already thrive on soccer, and to a lesser extent, cricket and rugby union.

Rugby league in Wales ), and a Scottish national team was never seriously considered, though Scots did feature for Other Nationalities and were eligible for Great Britain.

Rugby league is now considered as the country's fastest growing sport.