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	Rugby World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rugby World Cup trophy, the Webb Ellis Cup.
		Rugby union was also played at the Summer Olympics, first appearing at the 1900 Paris games and subsequently at London in 1908, Antwerp in 1920, and Paris again in 1924.
		The tournament is considered to be one of the largest international sporting events in the world, with the FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics being the events paramount to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rugby_Union_World_Cup (2278 words)

	Allens Arthur Robinson: Rugby World Cup Official Law Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rugby was first played in the South American country in the second half of the 19th century, with the Buenos Aires Football Club formed in 1864.
		Rugby arrived in Namibia (known at the time as South West Africa), in the early 20th century with the arrival of migrants from South Africa.
		The Damaraland Rugby Union was formed in 1916, but the current national rugby union wasn't formed until 1990, the year the country gained independence from South Africa.
	www.aar.com.au /rugby/teamsa.htm (531 words)

	Rugby World Cup odds & bets
		The Rugby World Cup was first held in 1987 when 16 teams gathered in Australia and New Zealand.
		1991 saw the format for the competition established with all bar the 8 quarter-finalists from 1987 having to progress from qualifying rounds.
		The World Cup has certainly arrived and become another of the punters favourites not just for rugby supporters but anyone who likes a flutter.
	www.place-bets.co.uk /rugbyworldcup.html (308 words)

	History of rugby union
		For many years, the sport’s authorities had suspected that the French Rugby Union was abusing the idea of amateurism, and in the early thirties the French Rugby Union was suspended from playing against the other nation.
		After the defeat of France in the Second World War, the French Rugby Union authorities worked with the collaborating Vichy regime to re-establish the dominance of their sport; Rugby League was banned and many players and officials of the sport were punished.
		1991 Australia defeated England in the final 12-6 at Twickenham, London, in the second Rugby Union World Cup held in British Isles and France.
	www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/h/hi/history_of_rugby_union.html (1080 words)

	Rugby World Cup History
		The IRB Rugby World Cup (RWC) is now one of the the world's top three sporting competitions(the Olympics and the World Cup of Soccer being the other two).
		This piece of rugby history is also believed to have been used by Albert E. Freethy in the final of the 1924 Olympics in Paris when the United States beat hosts France 17-13 at the Colombes Stadium - the last time the sport of rugby union featured in the Games.
		The whistle has been housed in the New Zealand Rugby Museum since 16 April 1969 when they held their inaugural function, having been given by Stan Dean, who for many years was the chairman of the NZRFU and manager of the 1924/25 All Blacks.
	www.rugbyfootballhistory.com /world_cup.htm (300 words)

	Rugby Union World Cup: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The premier international Rugby Union contest in the world, first held jointly in Australia and New Zealand in 1987 and now held ever four years.
		Nominally hosted by England and Wales, respectively, the 1991 and 1999 tournaments had games spread over Great Britain, Ireland and France.
		The 2003 Cup was intended to be held jointly by Australia and New Zealand, but disagreements between the International Rugby Board[?] and the NZ Union, over sponsorship, advertising and ticketing, saw the competition relocated to Australia.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ru/Rugby-Union-World-Cup.html (272 words)

	Allens Arthur Robinson: Rugby World Cup Official Law Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		England's Rugby World Cup highlight is reaching the final in 1991, which they lost to Australia.
		A Rugby World Cup highlight for Samoa is their 1991 victory against Wales on the Welsh home ground in Cardiff, in Samoa's first-ever Rugby World Cup match.
		Rugby was first played in the Republic of South Africa in 1889 and the sport is second only to soccer in popularity, with the nation being one of the founding members of the International Rugby Board in 1949.
	www.aar.com.au /rugby/teamsc.htm (430 words)

	Japan national rugby union team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rugby Union in Japan is administered by the Japan Rugby Football Union, founded in 1926.
		In the fifth Rugby Union World Cup, RWC2003 held in Australia, Japan was hailed as the best of the so-called minnow nations and left a lasting and delightful impression with its speedy play and sportsmanship, gaining many new Japanese and foreign fans in the process, but unfortunately the team still failed to win any games.
		It is also prone to occasional major hiccups, notably a humiliating World record 17-145 loss against a typically ruthless New Zealand All Blacks side (captained by Paul Henderson with many reserves who had a point to prove to their coach) at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa in the third World Cup, RWC1995.
	japan-national-rugby-union-team.iqnaut.net (1587 words)

	World Cup Web 100% Unofficial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They believed that they would retain the trophy and that the 1991 Rugby World Cup was theirs.
		In the final David Campese was their only defence against what seemed to be a dead cert Rugby World Cup final winning try for England when he knocked forward the ball and took with it England's RWC hopes of glory.
		But when he was on song he could lay claim to the title of the greatest rugby player the world has known.
	www.worldcupweb.com /WCrugby/1991.asp (215 words)

	CNN/SI - Rugby Union - Australia, Fiji, Samoa qualify for rugby World Cup - Saturday September 26, 1998 10:47 AM
		Australia, World Cup winners in 1991, finished at the top of the group after beating Samoa 25-13 in a bruising encounter at Ballymore stadium in Brisbane.
		As their reward, the Wallabies will go through to the World Cup as fifth seeds and play their pool matches in Ireland.
		Fiji, which failed to qualify for the 1995 World Cup after appearing at the two previous editions in 1987 and 1991, jumped into second position after beating Tonga 32-15, also at Ballymore.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /rugby/news/1998/09/26/world_cup (548 words)

	Rugby World Cup 2003
		Australian Rugby Union (ARU) Managing Director, John O`Neill, made the pledge following the decision, by an overwhelming majority, of the International Rugby Board (IRB) Council to confirm Australia as sole host of the 2003 event.
		World Rugby has a great opportunity to stage an event of the highest quality.
		A World Cup launch, unveiling the venues and match schedule will be held within a month.
	www.334notout.com /rugby/newsausvow.htm (531 words)

	TARIK'S RUGBY WORLD CUP
		The first rugby World Cup was held in 1987, an invites only affair of 16 nations.
		The second World Cup was held in the United Kingdom in 1991, with the 4 year cycle now being the established pattern.
		By the time of the next World Cup in 1995 many changes had occurred in the world of rugby.
	www.tarik.com.au /rugby/wc.html (261 words)

	Australian rugby union football Wallaby rugby and the World Cup
		The Golden Decade is captured in a new collectors’ piece from Legends Genuine Memorabilia, suggested by a Rugby buff (see accompanying story) and presented with photo-graphs that freeze the magic moments of an extraordinary period and boast the signatures of the principal characters.
		This was an era in which Australia won two World Cups, grabbed a record tenure of the Bledisloe Cup, won the Tri Nations Trophy, had their first ever home series-win against the British and Irish Lions, and defeated, in most cases repeatedly, every major Rugby nation on earth.
		That unhappy alternative, of course, fails to take into account the character inherent in Wallaby Rugby which, since the 1991 World Cup, has generated at least two champion teams, and turned Australia from a battler on the world stage to a trend-setter.
	www.cia.com.au /thorpe/unionrugby/rugby1.html (1233 words)

	1999 Rugby World Cup Two Pound Gold Proof Coin
		Since the first rugby world cup in 1987, the sport of rugby union has undoubtedly increased in popularity.
		The rugby world cup brings nations together in the spirit of competition from all over the globe.
		People of diverse and contrasting cultures from around the world were united in their desire to run with the oval ball.
	www.taxfreegold.co.uk /1999twopoundsrugbyworldcup.html (727 words)

	ITV Rugby World Cup
		He got a lot of his sporting ideals from Rugby School and was a keen rugby man, refereeing the first-ever final of the French Championship, when the Racing Club of France beat Stade Français 4-3 in 1892.
		That World Cup was held in Uruguay and the home side won.
		Rugby union got going in 1987 with lots of enthusiasm from Australia, France and New Zealand.
	itv.planet-rugby.com /Latest_News/story_31947.shtml (618 words)

	Rugby World Cup 2007
		The International Rugby Board have yet to finalise dates for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand yet, however, the locals are already planning on accomodating 70,000 visiting rugby fans.
		He hopes that "most Australian Rugby Union officials are courageous enough an have the nous to understand rugby is bigger than the World Cup".
		Rugby Union: Duncan Hodge was again the Murrayfield saviour as Edinburgh kept their Heineken Cup qualifying hopes alive..
	www.rugby-world-cup.info (2178 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| rugby world cup \| team profiles Wales
		Saturday's rugby in Christchurch was disappointing for the Bulls, who desperately need a genuine openside and a guide to kicking intelligently; still, they're nowhere near as dire as Bafana Bafana at the moment, defeated by Botswana on Sunday afternoon.
		Rugby union matters in Wales, the only country in Europe where the 15-man game rather than soccer has been the national sport.
		That, combined with an all too vivid legacy of the glory days of the 1970s when Wales were the standard bearers in the northern hemisphere, has made the decline of the men in red shirts all the more painful for their passionate supporters.
	sport.iafrica.com /rugby_world_cup/profiles/271925.htm (743 words)

	World Cup Rugby Tickets - Buy World Cup Rugby Tickets
		The World Cup Rugby winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Cup which is named after the pupil of Rugby school credited with the game's invention.
		World Cup Rugby is one of the largest international national sporting competitions in the world, with the
		The inaugural Rugby World Cup was contested in Australia and New Zealand between 16 nations in 1987.
	www.showtimetickets.com /sports/rugby/world-cup-rugby.jsp (417 words)

	Gambling Guide: The Rugby World Cup
		The next rugby union World Cup will be held in France during September to October 2007 (with some matches held in Wales and Scotland).
		Qualification for the world's premier rugby union event is a large undertaking.
		The 2007 World Cup is only one of many events in the rugby union calendar.
	www.gambling-guide.info /rugby-union/events/world-cup.php (769 words)

	Belfast Telegraph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ireland came to the end of their 2003 World Cup campaign no nearer to solving the mystery of who is first choice fly-half in Eddie O'Sullivan's side.
		Rugby's 'Group of Death' begins this Saturday with Ireland against Romania but this is only the warm-up for the vital match against Argentina further on down the road.
		Rugby's World Cup will hold a prime spot on the sporting stage over the next six weeks and there will be plenty of opportunities for railway shunters to hopefully cash in.
	www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /sport/rugby/story.jsp?story=449166 (4246 words)

	Sporting Life - Rugby Union World Cup 2003
		Tonga left the World Cup winless as they crashed to a 24-7 defeat against Canada at WIN Stadium in a match which saw the Maple Leafs' captain stretchered off after a huge Pierre Hola tackle.
		Tonga go into the World Cup once again relishing a crack at the heavyweights of international rugby.
		The task of reversing this trend would be a lot simpler had it not been for the failure to keep hold of back-row forwards of the calibre of Willie Ofahengaue and Toutai Kefu, who opted for international rugby with Australia despite Tongan roots.
	www.sportinglife.com /rugbyunion/worldcup2003/team_sections/tonga.html (322 words)

	Namibians proud underdogs at rugby World Cup
		The Namibian rugby union has no funds so the players raised some $37,000 to divide among the squad as a per diem.
		There are only 550 senior rugby players and 17 clubs in Namibia, a country of 1.6 million that made it to the World Cup after a bitter dispute over racial parity threatened to derail the team.
		"Rugby at the World Cup is not actually fun, it's more stress than fun at the moment," acknowledged van der Merwe.
	www.canoe.ca /SlamRugbyWorldCup/oct12_nam.html (1013 words)

	CNNSI.com - Rugby - Ex-world champ named to coach New South Wales - Friday July 07, 2000 01:21 PM
		Posted: Friday July 07, 2000 01:21 PM Bob Dwyer is considered one of the best rugby coaches in the world.
		"Bob is regarded as one of the finest rugby coaches in the world as reflected by his outstanding record with Australia and in England," New South Wales Rugby Union executive director Danny Harley said.
		He was replaced by Greg Smith as national coach after Australia was knocked out of the 1995 World Cup in the quarterfinals.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /rugby/news/2000/07/07/nsw_coach_ap (283 words)

	1991 Rugby World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1991 Rugby World Cup was hosted by England with games also held throughout other nations in Europe.
		As the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup was dominated by the eight International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) members at the time, the second tournament would herald the emergence of other nations onto the world stage.
		Of the 16 teams, eight of those places were automatically filled by quarterfinalists from the 1987 World Cup and did not have to play any qualification matches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1991_Rugby_Union_World_Cup (358 words)

	2003 Rugby Union World Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 2003 Rugby Union World Cup was the fifth world cup in rugby history.
		The eight quarter-finalists from the 1999 Rugby Union World Cup all received automatic entry, with the other twelve teams selected from a qualifying series around the world.
		The knock-out quarter final stage produced the widely predicted set of semi-finalists, although England again made heavy weather of defeating Wales -- England were widely rated the world's best team, but throughout the competition they made a habit of getting the expected results while not particularly impressing with the quality of their play.
	2003-rugby-union-world-cup.kiwiki.homeip.net (1198 words)

	Rugby World Cup
		The Rugby World Cup is the premier international rugby union competition organised by the sport's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB).
		The winners are awarded the William Webb Ellis Trophy which Australia would have been awarded outright had they won for the third time in 2003, the trophy is named after the man considered the founder of the game.
		The previous World Cups were held in Australia and New Zealand 1987, England, France, Scotland, Ireland and Wales 1991, South Africa 1995, Wales, Ireland, England, Scotland and France 1999, Australia 2003 and we will be in New Zealand in 2011
	www.therugbyworldcup.co.uk (339 words)

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