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8 unusual facts about Rugby football


Berliner SV 1892

The club was founded as Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Britannia in 1892 and fielded both football and cricket teams, which alongside rugby were English sports becoming popular in continental Europe at the time.

Foreskin's Lament

The play is a drama set in a rugby changing room after a practice, and at an after-match party.

Kingsland Railway Station

During rugby games it is very busy, with thousands of supporters using it.

Lists of international rugby football teams

There are two forms of rugby: rugby league and rugby union.

Matthew Bloxam

Bloxam is the sole source of the story that the game of Rugby football had its origins in the moment when William Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a game of football at Rugby School.

Na Fianna

An avid sports player, Damian has a keen interest in rugby and Gaelic games, winning a Leinster Senior Hurling Medal with St Kieran's College, Kilkenny and a Leinster Minor Football Medal with Laois.

Northbridge, New South Wales

The Norths Pirates Junior Rugby Union Club is the local village Rugby Club, the former Club being known as Cammbridge Bay.

Simion Ismailciuc

After the war, he joined the Communist-inspired “Youth building sites” at Salva-Vişeu and Bumbeşti-Livezeni, after which he did his compulsory military service.While working and while in the military, he learned to play rugby and was quite talented at it.


1892 Home Nations Championship

, J Toothill (Bradford), Launcelot Percival (Oxford Uni.), A Ashworth (Oldham), E Bullough (Wigan), William Yiend (Hartlepool Rovers), William Bromet (Tadcaster)

1909 college football season

In California, intercollegiate football programs (such as those of Stanford University and the University of California) had been discontinued after the 1905 season, and rugby was the autumn intercollegiate sport.

À la Table de Spanghero

The company was founded in 1970 as Spanghero SA in Castelnaudary by Claude and Laurent Spanghero, two former France international rugby players.

Antrim RFC

Antrim RFC (Antrim Rugby Football Club) is a rugby club based at Allen Park in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Australian rules football in Tasmania

Sean Fagan claims that early matches played in Tasmania may have been an early form of rugby football, pointing to early mentions of goal posts with cross-bars and offside rules of later Tasmanian clubs.

Bladderball

Hammond traces the name "bladderball" back to a rugby-like game played by Yale students on the New Haven Green in the first half of the 19th century, featuring an inflated animal bladder.

Brisbane Australian Football Club

It is not recorded why the club chose to adopt the contemporary Melbourne, rather than the Sydney, version of football (the latter being based on Rugby school rulesrugby football was not formally codified until 1871).

Charles Plumpton Wilson

He was thus one of only three players to represent England at both Association football and Rugby football, the others being Reginald Birkett and John Willie Sutcliffe.

Deportivo Rayo Cantabria

Founded in 1993 it currently plays in Tercera División – Group 3, holding home games at the Campo Municipal Mies de Cozada sports ground, which they share with a Segunda Regional football side (Juventud Atlético San Román) and a División de Honor rugby club (Independiente Rugby Club).

Frédéric Banquet

Frédéric Banquet is a French former rugby football player who played professionally in France and England and represented his country at rugby league in the 1995 and 2000 World Cups.

Gary Lambert

Dr Gary Lambert is a rugby footballer, poker player and chiropractor who represented the United States in the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

Gordon Saussy

His grandson, Kirk Varnedoe, played rugby for 14 years and later became the Director of Painting and Sculpting at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Highlands Primary School, Redbridge

The school is ethnically diverse with a wide range of extracurricular activities such as African drumming, Indian dance and instrumental, drama, recorders and orchestra, plus competitive rugby, netball and football.

History of rugby union in Australia

Geoffrey Blainey, Leonie Sandercock, Ian Turner and Sean Fagan have all written in support for the theory that the primary influence on the game was rugby football and other other games emanating from English public schools.

Ibiza RC

The Ibiza Rugby Club, or Ibiza RC, are a rugby team from Ibiza, Spain, which competes in the Balearic rugby league.

International Rugby Challenge

International Rugby Challenge (also known simply as International Rugby) is a rugby game on Mega Drive (Genesis) and the Commodore Amiga.

John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence

Their second son, Henry Arnold, was a noted rugby player and captained England in two matches, including the first ever international against Ireland.

Lorraine Downes

In 1986 Lorraine Downes married Murray Mexted, a New Zealand rugby All Black, with whom she had two children (son Hilton and daughter Jasmine), before divorcing in 2001.

Mark Saggers

He attended the Perse School, Cambridge, 1970–77 and was a keen sportsman representing the school at rugby, hockey, and cricket.

Matthew Lloyd

The Lloyds moved to Scotland for three years because of John's work, and it was there that Matthew picked up rugby and soccer playing for his Currie club.

The family moved to Scotland for three years because of John Lloyd's work and it was there that Lloyd played rugby and soccer his Currie club.

Melrose RFC

Melrose Rugby Football Club, located and founded in the town of Melrose in the Scottish Borders in 1877, is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world.

Obi Ezeh

He was also a member of a four-time state champion high school rugby team and was invited to tryout with the United States national rugby union team.

Old Laurentian Society

The Old Laurentians (OLs) have an affiliated rugby football club (OLRFC) who have a ground at Fenly Field located in the village of Bilton, which is a part of the town Rugby.

Robert Mark

He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, where he was undistinguished academically, but became captain of rugby and head prefect.

Rosemary Rogers

After spending three years at the University of Ceylon, Rogers became a reporter, and soon married Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese rugby player and track star (who played for Ceylon against the 1950 British Lions and who was known as "the fastest man in Asia").

Royal Swazi National Airways

The mercenaries disguised themselves as Ancient Order of Froth Blowers rugby players and fans, but were exposed as they passed through customs when an alert official discovered a dismantled AK-47 in one of the mercenaries' luggage.

South Surrey Athletic Park

There are also four multi-purpose fields adjacent to Semiahmoo Secondary School that are commonly used for football, rugby and soccer.

Stéphane Rideau

Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby game and then auditioned for a role in the film Wild Reeds by André Téchiné.

Stephen Hagan

In 1999, Stephen Hagan visited the Clive Berghofer Stadium in Toowoomba, Queensland, and noticed a large sign declaring the name of the E. S. "Nigger" Brown Stand, which had been named after the 1920s rugby player Edwin Stanley Brown – also known as "Nigger" Brown, in reference to a brand of boot polish available at the time as he was slick on the Rugby League field.

Supervisor

In the UK, the term is also commonly used to refer to sports coaches (football, rugby, etc.).

Széktói Stadion

It is currently used mostly for football and rugby matches and is the home stadium of Kecskeméti TE of the Hungarian National Championship I and of Kecskeméti Atlétika és Rugby Club of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I.

Tetbury Woolsack Races

Most competitors come from local rugby teams or the British Army; many of the course records are held by Tetbury Rugby Club.


see also

1876 in sports

The rules are based largely on the English Rugby Football Union's code, though one important difference is the introduction of the touchdown as the primary means of scoring instead of the field goal (a change that will later occur in rugby football itself).

AMI Stadium

Rugby League Park/Christchurch Stadium, a rugby football stadium also in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Australian touch football

Touch rugby, games derived from rugby football in which players touch, rather than tackle, their opponents

Barton Road, Cambridge

Off this road just to the south of Barton Road are the Cambridge Rugby Football Ground (West Renault Park, home ground of Cambridge Rugby Union Football Club), Trinity New Field, Pembroke College Sports Ground, and behind that St Catharine's College Sports Ground.

Birstall RFC

Birstall Rugby Football Club is a men's senior rugby union club based in Birstall, Leicestershire.

Chase Carey

While attending Colgate he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and was a member of the Colgate University Rugby Football Club.

England national rugby team

England national rugby league team, often nicknamed the Three Lions, administered by the Rugby Football League

Great Britain national rugby league team, nicknamed the Lions, representing the entirety of the British Isles, also administered by the Rugby Football League

George Washington RFC

George Washington Rugby Football Club (GWRFC, GW Men's Rugby) is the oldest club sport at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Greensteds School

In the last term (Trinity) boys play rugby, football and basketball, while the girls play net ball.

Haddington RFC

Haddington Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based in Haddington, East Lothian.

Harvard rugby

The Harvard Rugby Football Club is a collegiate rugby team at Harvard College.

Heaton, Newcastle

Heaton is now home to amateur rugby football club Medicals RFC, based in Cartington Terrace

Help-Link

Recently, Help-Link signed up veteran children's presenter Johnny Ball to star in their new television adverts, as well as signing a 1 year deal with Rugby Football Super League team Castleford Tigers to become their main front shirt sponsor for the 2013 season.

Higashi-Hanazono Station

When the large events are held at Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium, part of express trains running both direction and part of rapid express trains running for Osaka Namba and Kobe stop at the station (examples: the National High School Rugby Tournament games, the international rugby football games, the Japan Top League games (Kintetsu Liners, when crowded))

Hove Rugby Football Club

Territorial Army officers and men of the Sussex Yeomanry formed a rugby club, which was affiliated to the Rugby Football Union in 1933.

Ian Buckett

After the near collapse of rugby league venture Crusaders Rugby League in north Wales he, as a Director of Deeview Consulting, and a local businessman were in discussions with the Rugby Football League about a potential RFL franchise to be played out of Colwyn Bay at Championship One level in conjunction with rugby union.

IFRB

You may have mis-typed IRFB, the International Rugby Football Board, the predecessor to the International Rugby Board.

Ireland rugby team

Ireland national rugby union team, administered by the Irish Rugby Football Union.

Joe Kilroy

He also played full-back in the Halifax team which surprised everyone in English rugby league by winning the Rugby Football League Championship in 1985-86 under player/coach Chris Anderson.

Kettering Rugby Football Club

The earliest available records indicate that the playing of rugby football in Kettering was initiated by the Rector of Barton Seagrave village in 1871.

Kilunda RFC

Kilunda Rugby Football Club, also known as Kilunda / Masaku RFC, is a Kenyan rugby union club based in Machakos.

Lux Park

Trevor Woodman - Former England Rugby Union Player who belonged to the Liskeard Looe Rugby/Football club which is situated in the grounds of Lux Park.

Manus O'Cahan's Regiment

David Leslie, a leading highly experienced soldier and Covenanter, attacked O'Cahan's men as they were just waking up at an encampment in Philiphaugh (near to the site of today's Selkirk Rugby football club ) on 13 September 1645.

Mike Rodden

He was a student at Queen's University from 1910 to 1913, earning 15 letters in rugby football and ice hockey over that period.

New Zealand football team

New Zealand national rugby union team, better known as the All Blacks, administered by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union.

New Zealand national rugby team

New Zealand national rugby union team, better known as the All Blacks, administered by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union.

Northern Rugby Union

Rugby Football League, the governing body for rugby league in the United Kingdom, were known as the Northern Union, Northern Rugby Union or Northern Rugby Football Union between 1895 and 1922.

Novocastrians Rugby Football Club

Novos were formed in September 1899 as Old Novocastrians Rugby Football Club by a group of former pupils of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne.

In September 1899 Old Novocastrians Rugby Football Club was formed by a group of former pupils of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Penicuik RFC

Penicuik Rugby Club is a rugby football club in the Scottish Rugby Union, playing their home games at Public Park, Penicuik, Midlothian.

Preston Lodge RFC

Preston Lodge Former Pupil Rugby Football Club are a rugby union side based in Prestonpans in East Lothian, Scotland.

Rugby union in Queensland

The earliest known recorded regular Rugby football games in Brisbane commenced in 1876, when the Brisbane Football Club elected to change to Rugby, instead of 'Victorian Rules' (now known as Australian Rules) which it had played since its founding in 1866, to permit competition with the newly formed Rangers and Bonnet Rouge football clubs.

Seaborne Davies

After retirement in 1971, Davies moved to Caernarfon where he indulged his interest in Rugby union (he had been Life President of Liverpool University Rugby Football Club and Vice President of London Welsh RFC, and became President of Pwllheli Sports Club for ten years.

Shon Siemonek

After leaving high-school Siemonek continued his rugby union career at Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Football Club in Lower Hutt where he played with the All Black Piri Weepu, and Hurricane Jeremy Thrush.

Stockton Rugby Club

Stockton Rugby Football Club is an amateur sports club based in Stockton-on-Tees.

Tom Butterfield

In 2012 he was approached by Whitehaven RLFC but the club failed to get Rugby Football League approval.

Tony Lewis

Lewis was born in Swansea, and attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as BA and later MA, and also played rugby football and cricket for Cambridge University.

Touch football

Touch rugby, other games derived from rugby football in which players touch rather than tackle opponents

Traverse Bay Blues Rugby Football Club

The Traverse Bay Blues Rugby Football Club (Traverse Bay Blues RFC) is a rugby union team founded in 1973 from Traverse City, Michigan that is a part of the Grand Traverse Rugby Club.

University at Buffalo Rugby Football Club

The University at Buffalo Rugby Football Club (UBRFC) is run through the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Recreational and Intramural Services.

West Ham station

East London Rugby Football Club is situated nearby on Holland Road, which is also home to Kings Cross Steelers RFC and Phantoms RFC.

Wisconsin Women's Rugby Football Club

The Wisconsin Women's Rugby Football Club (WWRFC) is an amateur Division I women's rugby team in Madison, Wisconsin.

Zimbabwe Rugby Union

The oldest clubs in the country were formed in 1894 in Bulawayo and the Rhodesia Rugby Football Union was founded one year later in 1895.