Rugby union was an Earth ball sport that originated from England during the 19th century. Played with two teams of fifteen players on the field the objective of the game is to score more points than the opposing team. This can be done through scoring tries (grounding the ball in the "in-goal" area) and kicking penalties or field goals through "H" shaped posts at either end of the field.
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| - Rugby union was an Earth ball sport that originated from England during the 19th century. Played with two teams of fifteen players on the field the objective of the game is to score more points than the opposing team. This can be done through scoring tries (grounding the ball in the "in-goal" area) and kicking penalties or field goals through "H" shaped posts at either end of the field.
- Rugby union, often referred to simply as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a field with H-shaped goalposts on each goal line.
- Rugby union, often referred to simply as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball with dimensions of (– in) in length, circumference over length of (– in) and circumference over width of (– in). It is played on a field up to metres ( ft) long and metres ( ft) wide with H-shaped goal posts on each goal line.
- Rugby union was created by William Webb Alice in England in 1823. Not content to play by the rules he picked up the soccer ball and started running with it. He was promptly attacked by the opposition and members of his own team. The tougher players decided that this was much more fun than simply kicking a ball around like a whimpy diving crybaby. The sport became so popular that a whole town in England renamed itself after it. However, since most of the players were ignorant brutes no one could decide on or even knew what rules to use. Eventually the stuck up toffs in the South came up with there own rules while the uneducated louts from up North created there own version. The tight-arse southerners originally played the players with kind words and "hurrahs", while the northerners gave the
- An adult-level rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes each plus time added on for injury, and is controlled by a single referee, two touch judges, and in most professional matches, a television match official (TMO), commonly called the video referee. The object of the game is that each team of fifteen players score as many points as possible, with the team scoring the greater number of points being the winner of the match. A penalty or drop goal is worth 3 points; a conversion is worth 2 points.
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| - Part of the Summer Olympic programme in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924
- Rugby Sevens reinstated 2016
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| - South African Victor Matfield takes a line-out against New Zealand in 2006.
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| - "Fa Nowt! You're aving a lauf, bugger that,"
- "Oh I say old chap, how about we play this game for free."
- The actual conversation recorded at the time when rugby union broke up with rugby union
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