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A rugby sevens tournament was organised by Warrington F.C. (a rugby club) on their athletics day on 14 August 1886 but it was not repeated. A rugby sevens match was played in Chorley, Lancashire as part of the Chorley Rugby and Athletic club's sports day on 22 July 1888; another match looks to have taken place the following year on 24 August 1889.
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A normal rugby union team formation illustrating each of the positions and their respective numbers. In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (wearing jerseys numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15). In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players "on the bench", numbered 16–23.
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The record rugby league sevens attendance remains the 80,000 that attended a 1933 match between Australia and England at Roundhay Park in Leeds. This match was also attended by English royalty. The first rugby league sevens tournament was played in Australia in 1961. [1] The major tournament was the World Sevens played prior to the beginning of ...
The earliest records of an American national rugby sevens team are from the 1986 and 1988 Hong Kong Sevens, where a team named the American Eagles won the Plate Final. [2] The team competed as the United States national rugby sevens team at the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens .
Ben Gollings holds the record for points scored on the Sevens Series with 2,652 points. [1] Dan Norton holds the record for tries scored on the Sevens Series with over 350 tries as of April 2020. [2] England's Simon Amor (2004) and Ollie Phillips (2009) have each won a World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year award. [3]
Oceania Rugby Sevens Challenge Year Round Position Pld W D L; 2022: 7th Place Playoff 8th 6 0 0 6 Total 0 Titles 1/1 6 0 0 6 References