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Ultimately, rugby was left outside the FA. Despite the initial reluctance to abandon hacking, rugby clubs began to abolish the practice during the late 1860s. Blackheath banned it in 1865, and Richmond supported a similar prohibition in 1866. Rugby received bad publicity after a Richmond player was killed in a practice match in 1871, prompting leading clubs to respond to Richmond and Blackheath’s call for an organizational meeting. Thus, in 1871 members of leading rugby clubs met to form the Rugby Football Union (RFU), which became the governing body for the sport. By this time, hacking had largely disappeared from club rugby, though it remained a part of the game’s “character building” qualities at Rugby School.
This “historical” basis of the game was well established by the early 1900s, about the same time that foundation myths were invented for baseball and Australian rules football. While it is known that Webb Ellis was a student at Rugby School at the time, there is no direct evidence of the actual event’s having taken place, though it was cited by the Old Rugbeian Society in an 1897 report on the origins of the game. Nevertheless, Rugby School, whose name has been given to the sport, was pivotal in the development of rugby football, and the first rules of the game that became rugby union football were established there in 1845.
HistoryOriginsDifferent forms of football have existed for centuries. (For more on the development of football sports, see football. ) In Britain, football games may have been played as early as the time of Roman occupation in the 1st century BCE. During the 14th and 15th centuries CE, Shrove Tuesday football matches became annual traditions in local communities, and many of these games continued well into the 19th century.
But before getting started, these players at the Frankfurt Rugby Club practice a bit of technique, as coordination and ball control are essential in this sport. Rugby is a full-contact sport. You have to learn to bring down your opponent. This takes toughness. Strength, craftiness and body control are of the essence. This is what is called a scrum.
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These localized versions of folk football (a violent sport distinctive for its large teams and lack of rules) gradually found favour within the English public (independent) schools, where they were modified and adapted into one of two forms: a dribbling game, played primarily with the feet, that was promoted at Eton and Harrow, and a handling game favoured by Rugby, Marlborough, and Cheltenham.
As a result of its continued adherence to the practice, Rugby School did not join the RFU until 1890. The growth of the gameRugby rapidly spread from its elitist origins in England, Scotland, and Ireland to middle- and working-class men in the north of England and in Wales and to the British colonies in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. It also spread to North America, where it was transformed into a new style of football. Northern HemisphereUnlike association football (soccer), which embraced player payments and league play in the 1880s, the RFU staunchly resisted professionalism, cup competitions, and leagues, though international rugby between England and Scotland began immediately.
As soon as the six Scottish clubs heard of the formation of the RFU, they issued a challenge to it for a match to be held in Scotland on March 27, 1871. The match was played in front of 4, 000 spectators, with each side scoring a try, though only Scotland could convert the try with a goal (see below Play of the game). Ireland began playing England in 1875 and Scotland in 1877. The three national teams formed what became known as the “Home Nations. ” Significantly, club rugby matches remained ad hoc in England until the latter decades of the 20th century, and, as a result, international matches took on a special meaning. Northern England and the splitIn the north of England, rugby was organized somewhat differently from in the south. Teams became the focus of civic pride, and league and cup competitions quickly arose in Yorkshire.
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The game spread throughout Yorkshire to Cumbria and parts of Lancashire, and many working-class men were playing by the mid-1880s. Northern clubs campaigned for “broken time” payments for their working-class players who lost time from work in order to play. Matters came to a head at an 1893 general meeting of the RFU, where the legalization of broken time payments was soundly defeated by southern clubs, which controlled a majority of the votes. On August 29, 1895, in the town of Huddersfield in Yorkshire, 22 of the leading clubs in the north of England resigned from the RFU and created the Northern Rugby Football Union, which became the Rugby Football League in 1922.
After many rule infringements play is often restarted with a scrum. The forwards on each team crouch and bind together. They then shove and push each other to get to the ball, which is thrown into the scrum from the side. The ball is thrown in and the forwards lift one of their teammates above the scrum, he, in turn, tries to catch the ball and pass it to a teammate. This is called a line-out and is done when the ball has gone into touch.
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During the scrimmage at the end of practice there is no tackling, that is no body contact. This is to keep these novices from getting injured. Here, this player finds the right spot, catches the ball and grounds the ball in the in-goal area. Even beginners can score points. Getting into rugby is easy. Anyone can play, and the younger you start the better. Starting as a child is ideal as rugby is the perfect sport for getting super fit. rugby, football game played with an oval ball by two teams of 15 players (in rugby union play) or 13 players (in rugby league play). Both rugby union and rugby league have their origins in the style of football played at Rugby School in England. According to the sport’s lore, in 1823 William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, defied the conventions of the day (that the ball may only be kicked forward) to pick up the ball and run with it in a game, thus creating the distinct handling game of rugby football.
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