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	History of rugby union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The game was known simply as rugby (football) and it was not until the schism with rugby league in 1895 over professionalism that the moniker rugby union was generally applied to differentiate it from the professional code.
		Rugby union stuck to its Corinthian ideals of amateurism and it was not until the end of the 20th century under growing commercial pressure that the game turned professional.
		However, the trophy for the Rugby Union World Cup is named "Webb Ellis" in his honour (as is Ellis Park in Johannesburg a major international rugby union stadium), and a plaque at the school commemorates the 'achievement'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_rugby_union (4302 words)

	Rugby Union, History of - MSN Encarta
		Rugby Union, History of, development of a football game, which traditionally, was “invented” by a schoolboy named William Webb Ellis at Rugby School, Warwickshire, England.
		In November 1823 he is believed to have cheated technically during a game of the then crude mob football played at the school, when, “with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, [he] first took the ball in his arms and ran with it”.
		Rugby was included in the 1900 and 1908 Olympic Games, and again in 1920 and 1924.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781540248/Rugby_Union_History_of.html (1299 words)

	Rugby Union History of - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rugby Union, History of, development of a football game, which traditionally, was “invented” by a schoolboy named William Webb Ellis at Rugby...
		Rugby League, History of, development of a field game that has its origins in rugby union football, but is now radically different.
		Rugby Union, Rules of, a 15-a-side football game, which can also be played 7-a-side (when it is known as “sevens”).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Rugby_Union_History_of.html (196 words)

	Rugby Union history Australia
		Officially, the distinctive feature of rugby union was invented in 1823 when a schoolboy named William Webb Ellis showed a "fine disregard" for the rules of the day by picking up the ball and running with it.
		Because it was rugby league rather than Aussie rules that became dominant in Brisbane and Sydney, there remained a white-collar niche that could be filled by rugby union.
		This pride in Australian history and culture is all very ironic considering that 120 years ago, union supporters were so fearful of Australia's indigenous code on the grounds it threatened their patriotism to England.
	www.convictcreations.com /football/union.htm (1249 words)

	Charters Towers Bulls Rugby Union - History
		Rugby Union was established in Charters Towers in 1890, earlier than most of Australia, but games were played here as early as 1885.
		Rugby Union continued to grow in our city until it became known as one of the premier Rugby areas in the state.
		Unfortunately, Rugby Union faded from the scene until a meeting on 20 October 1980 involving Warren Inch, Bob Armstrong, Jim Geaney and Peter Hulthen resulted in the reformation of the game in Charters Towers.
	www.ctbullsrugby.com /history.html (587 words)

	History
		Our school history lessons covering the duration of the Crimean War (1854-56) generally focused on the political background, the death or glory, the suffering of the diseased and wounded, the early beginnings of professional nursing, but they certainly didn't mention that the conflict saw the birth of rugby within the British Army.
		Rugby was played by the units serving as part of British Army of the Rhine in Germany (1918-1929) and by other units serving elsewhere in the British Empire.
		The success of rugby between the wars matured both the ARU as an organisation and rugby as an army game which put them on a much stronger footing when the Second World War began than it had been at the beginning of the First World War.
	www.army.mod.uk /aru/history (3128 words)

	History of rugby league (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The rugby union authorities opted to suspend play throughout the war, and this decision is often cited as one of the prime reasons for the traditional dominance of rugby league over rugby union in Australia.
		For many years, the rugby union 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 nations.
		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.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/history_of_rugby_league (4456 words)

	History of Rugby Football
		This article covers the history and evolution of the sport of rugby football prior to the split into rugby league and rugby union after the schism of 1895.
		However, the trophy for the Rugby Union World Cup is named Webb Ellis in his honour and a plaque at the school 'commemorates' the 'achievement'.
		It would be a century before Rugby Union became professional and would allow players who had played a game of Rugby League (even at an amateur level) to play in a Union game.
	www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/h/hi/history_of_rugby_football.html (647 words)

	A short History of Rugby League
		Rugby League today is far different from the last century when the game of Rugby League was played under conditions which today would make it unrecognisable.
		They agreed with Bradford and Elland that players who played Rugby and lost some of their wages for not being at work should be recompensed by the club they played for.
		The 13-a-side game of Rugby was first adopted in the 1906-7 season by the Northern Union and as a result of there being less players on the field a fast and exciting game was produced.
	www.showroom.com.au /dragons/shorthistory.htm (673 words)

	AFL history
		Rugby union diehards will have some sort of perception but it will be a totally false one.
		Rugby today, with its set pieces, strict offside laws and emphasis on try-scoring, is unrecognisable from the game played at the Warwickshire school in the early 1820s.
		A tablet was placed in the walls of Rugby School and in 1923 a "centenary" match was played between England and Wales (21) and Scotland and Ireland (16) at the school's ground.
	rl1908.com /Rugby-League-News/AFL-history.htm (1043 words)

	Irish Rugby Football Union Manuscript @ FolkArtMuseum.com (Folk Art Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In addition the Union also owns Ravenhill in Belfast, Thomond Park in Limerick and a number of grounds in provincial areas that have been rented to clubs.
		This led to the unique situation among international rugby union teams, where the Irish representative teams are drawn from players from two separate political territories: the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom).
		To maintain the unity of Irish rugby union and the linkages between North and South the IRFU purchased a new ground in 1923 in the Ravenhill district of Belfast at a cost of £2,300.
	www.folkartmuseum.com /encyclopedia/Irish_Rugby_Football_Union (409 words)

	RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL - HISTORY - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		In 1876 rugby came to Rangitikei (at Marton, Bulls, and Sandon); to North Otago (at Oamaru); to Hawera and Patea in Taranaki; to Invercargill, Otautau, and Riverton in Southland; and to Greytown and Masterton in Wairarapa.
		This was from the Southern Rugby Union of New South Wales.
		Counties, founded as South Auckland union (the second of that name), by the amalgamation in 1926 of the sub-unions in South Auckland, was affiliated as a sub-union to Auckland union.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/R/RugbyUnionFootball/History/en (3071 words)

	Rugby Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1823 at Rugby school William Webb Ellis (or some other student) gasped the ball and ran with it, however the first set of rules at Rugby School date from 1843.
		Generally it is thought that the Cambridge rules led to soccer and the Rugby/Eaton rules to rugby, however the reality was that their was much comprise locally.
		It includes the 1971 Stamp to commemorate the Centenary of the Rugby Union and the 1980 Stamp to commemorate the Centenary of the Welsh Rugby Union.
	www.footystamps.com /orig_union.htm (1039 words)

	History
		As legend has it, rugby was “invented” in 1823 during an intramural soccer match at a private boarding school in Rugby, England.
		Traditionally rugby union is played on a field or pitch, slightly longer and wider than a gridiron, with 15 players aside.
		Rugby competition is exemplary of what the true sports fan craves, and with little explanation, rugby will prove to be the sport that offers the most bang for the buck.
	www.highschoolrugby.com /2001season/quickguide.htm (2428 words)

	Welsh Rugby - HISTORY OF WELSH RUGBY
		The Welsh Rugby Union was formed, in Neath in 1881, and it now has a total of 239 member clubs.
		At the inaugural Rugby World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 1987, Wales beat England in the quarter-finals, lost to the All Blacks in the semi-finals and then beat Australia to take third place.
		The nineties was one of the worst periods in the history of the game as defections to Rugby League and internecine struggles decimated the national side.
	www.angelfire.com /ne/welshrugby/waleshistory.html (970 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| The 10 greatest fly-halves in the history of rugby union
		They remain in rugby as coaches; Mark was last seen with the Bundaberg Rum operation, sponsors of the Lions tour.
		No wonder he became the only Argentine rugby player to be mobbed on the streets of Buenos Aires, and be appointed his country's Minister of Sport.
		Rugby union has its cruelty and its obvious size-ism and its violence, all more or less contained by laws that by their very complexity will keep the sport beyond the appreciation of a wide audience.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /toptens/story/0,,1079072,00.html (1058 words)

	Huddersfield Rugby Union History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rugby was first played in this then predominantly textile town in 1866 and the club formed in 1870 when there were twenty players a side.
		It was here in 1895 that twenty northern clubs broke away from the RFU to establish what is now known as Rugby League.
		Our own former President Mick Brown is currently chairman of the Yorkshire Rugby Union.
	www.huddersfieldrugby.com /history/history.htm (128 words)

	Crusaders History - Canterbury Rugby Football Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When the first year of Super 12 kicked off in 1996, the Crusaders title was chosen for the side representing the provincial unions from the top half of the South Island - Nelson, Marlborough, Buller, West Coast, Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury.
		Among others in the mix of potential names were the Plainsmen but the powers that be at the time chose Crusaders based on the English nature of the city of Christchurch.
		Many tunes were considered but it was John Foley, who was working for one of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union's longest serving sponsors DB Draught, who put forward the idea of using the "Conquest of Paradise" music.
	www.crfu.co.nz /crfu_anx/index.cfm/1,86,html/Crusaders-History (390 words)

	Rugby history
		Rugby and Rugby School - Let's begin at the beginning.
		The Early History and formation of the Northern California Rugby Union - Compiled by Dan Hickey, I include this well-written article here because it describes the early days of U.S. rugby and the part Northern Californians played in the 1924 Olympics, when the U.S. won a gold medal in rugby.
		The rugby "cap" - Since I can't have you be ignorant of basic rugby terminology...
	www.wesclark.com /rrr/history.html (860 words)

	rugby.com.au \| History Of The Game
		The Southern Rugby Union (NSW) tours New Zealand becoming the first team in the world to tour overseas.
		Enticing the defection of Dally Messenger, then the most famous rugby player in Australia, they are able to attract a number of other prominent Wallabies.
		These losses and the continued impact of Rugby League, greatly affected the strength of the code.
	rugby.com.au /community_rugby/what_is_rugby/history_of_the_game,24.html (1720 words)

	Army Rugby Union Official Site - History (Pictures) page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The era was seen as 'golden' with the Army side dominating the Inter Services competition frequently beating both the Navy and RAF sides to win the overall competition.
		At home rugby played its part in maintaining national morale for in 1942 a number of Service International matches, with teams drawn from Servicemen, were played at a variety of venues across the British Isles.
		It was played at Headingly, Leeds under RU rules and was won by the League XV (18-11).
	www.armyrugbyunion.org.uk /ARUhistory.html (2198 words)

	History Of Rugby Football News and Related Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 2006 Bingham Cup, the highest prize in gay rugby, scrums down this week for seven days of man-on-man, hunky, thick-thighed action that promises to be an absolute feast for the eyes.
		A leading doctor has called for a ban on "contested scrums" in rugby union because of the risk of causing serious spinal injuries.
		Springbok coach Jake White has appealed to the Board of SA Rugby to allow him to rest some of his star players during the Test season to ensure that they are fresh for the World Cup in France.
	rugby.sportspaparazzi.com /history-of-rugby-football.html (945 words)

	Rugby Union from the Virtual Library of Sport
		ACT Rugby Union Coaching and Development `Drill of the Week` developed to provide a continual resource for coaches of all ages and all levels for either direct application to training programs, to stimulate ideas in relation to developing training practices specific to a particular teams play.
		History of Rugby from Boca Rugby Buccaneers, nicely researched, starting from Rugby School.
		Colonial Rugby History of rugby in the 1800s and early 1900s, particularly in colonial Australia.
	sportsvl.com /ball/rugby/rugbyunion.htm (2377 words)

	2003 Rugby World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth world cup in rugby union history.
		The Adelaide Oval underwent a AUS$ 20 million redevelopment for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, financed entirely by the South Australian Cricket Association, with two new grandstands built adjacent to the Victor Richardson Gates.
		Of the 20 teams, eight of those places were automatically filled by the teams that reached the quarter final stages in 1999, including hosts and world champions Australia and did not have to play any qualification matches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_Rugby_Union_World_Cup (1667 words)

	England's Rose - The Official History \|\| Unofficial England Rugby Union - Unofficial England Rugby Union News and Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When he founded Rugby School the new institution based their own coat of arms on his, and so the red rose ended up on the Rugby School crest.
		On a photograph of the England rugby team taken at Twickenham on 20 March 1920 is the first photographic evidence that we have for Alfred Wright's rose.
		In 1998 the England Rugby ‘Red Rose’ used by the RFU was modernised as part of an update of the RFU’s overall corporate branding.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s245/st74325.htm?fromrss=1 (1245 words)

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