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.

Oxfordians say the first of these phrases could refer to one of Edward de Vere's manors, Bilton, near the Forest of Arden, in Rugby, on the River Avon.

In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, one of Scotland's biggest stadiums, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations.

* Rugby School, one of the oldest public schools in England, is founded.

In 2005, Rugby School was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.

In his authoritative ' Godliness and Good Learning ' ( Cassell 1961 ), D. H. Newsome points out that muscular Christianity developed after Arnold's time at Rugby and that " although ' Tom Brown's School Days ' is one of the earliest examples of the delight in athleticism, the ideal there expressed is not that of Arnold but of Thomas Hughes author " ( page 80 ).

Brighton is also the home of one of the oldest Rugby Clubs in England ; Brighton Football Club ( RFU ).

* Munster Rugby, one of four provincial branches of the Irish Rugby Football Union, and also the professional rugby team operated by this body

Twickenham is home to the headquarters of the Rugby Football Union and Twickenham Rugby Stadium, one of England ’ s largest stadiums and the world ’ s largest rugby stadium.

It was one of several sites along the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental route between Devils Lake and Minot that were named after places in England ( the others were Berwick, Norwich, Penn, Rugby, Surrey, Tunbridge, and York ).

It was one of several sites along the Great Northern's transcontinental route between Devils Lake and Minot that were named after places in England ( the others were Berwick, Leeds, Norwich, Penn, Rugby, Tunbridge, and York ).

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 ".

The original Castleford rugby league club played in the Northern Union ( Rugby Football League ) from 1896 – 97 to 1905 – 06, and it had one player named Isaac Cole who won a cap for England in 1906 against Other Nationalities.

Lomu was also inducted into the IRB Hall at the October 2011 IRB Awards ceremony, being specifically recognised as one of four new inductees " who had left an indelible mark on Rugby World Cup for their moments of magic, inspiration or feats ".

The elite club competition is the National Rugby League ( NRL ), which features ten teams from New South Wales, three teams from Queensland, and one team each from Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.

The suburb is the spiritual home of the great Moseley Rugby Football Club, regular cup finalists in the 1970s and 80s, and still regularly hosting one of the top 14 games in the country.

Its most famous team is Moseley Rugby Football Club who were one of Europe's best teams in the late 1960s to the 1980s.

Although the town is most famous for its shrines it is also notable for its Rugby union team, FC Lourdes, which during the mid-twentieth century was one of the most successful teams in France, winning the national championship 8 times from 1948 to 1968.

Founded in 1882, Mallow Rugby Club is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the country and one of the predominant sporting clubs in the area.

File: Rugby Central station remains2. jpg | The remains of Rugby Central Station on the former Great Central Railway, one of many stations and lines that were closed under the Beeching Axe