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In 1869, Newington College was the first Australian school to play rugby in a match against the University of Sydney. [19] From this beginning, the first metropolitan competition in Australia developed, formally beginning in 1874. [18] This was organised by the Southern Rugby Union, which was administered by the rugby union at Twickenham, in ...
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
Professional competition of rugby union began in 2016, PRO Rugby, and the currently-sanctioned top-level professional league, Major League Rugby (MLR), began play in 2018. Major League Rugby implemented its first collegiate MLR Draft in 2020. Players are eligible for draft after 3 years in college at 21 years old.
Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]
The rugby union match played between Scotland and England on 27 March 1871 was the world's first international rugby match. It is also officially the first international football match in any football code. The match was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh in front of 4,000 spectators.
This timeline lists the foundation dates of the national governing bodies for rugby union—known as rugby unions or federations. The first union was the Rugby Football Union (RFU) that was founded in 1871 to govern rugby union within England. It was founded following the first ever rugby union international, played between England and Scotland ...
In 1932 the first rugby league match under floodlights is played between Leeds and Wigan at White City in London. [17] Following development work by both Harry Sunderland (on behalf of the Australian Rugby League ) and the Rugby Football League based in England, the Australian and Great British Test teams played an exhibition game at Stade ...
The 1938 Calcutta Cup match was the first live televised rugby international. It was broadcast by BBC Television. [1] [2] The first two international sides to play against each other, the England–Scotland fixture is the second most-played international rugby union match as of 2025.