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William Webb Ellis (24 November 1806 – 24 February 1872) was an English Anglican clergyman who, by tradition, has been credited as the inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the "rugby" style of play.
Winners of the Rugby World Cup are presented with the Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis. The trophy is also referred to simply as the Rugby World Cup. The trophy was chosen in 1987 for use in the competition, and was created in 1906 by Garrard's Crown Jewellers.
The Webb Ellis Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the men's Rugby World Cup, the premier competition in men's international rugby union. The Cup is named after William Webb Ellis , who is often credited as being the inventor of rugby football .
The traditional date of the William Webb Ellis legend. He was the Rugby School pupil who, it was said later, "with a fine disregard for the rules of football, took the ball in his hands and ran with it". [3] Even if the tale is true, the game was a version of folk football with rules that were verbally agreed by the Rugby School pupils.
The Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum is a rugby football museum in the town centre of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, near Rugby School. It takes its name from William Webb Ellis , who is credited with inventing the game of rugby football.
William Webb Ellis (1806–1872), English Anglican clergyman; the man who is said to have invented rugby William Webb Follett (1796–1845), English lawyer William Webb Venable (1880–1948), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
The traditional date of the William Webb Ellis legend. He is the Rugby School pupil who, it is said, "with a fine disregard for the rules of football, took the ball in his hands and ran with it". Even if the tale is true, the game will have been a version of folk football with rules that had been verbally agreed by the Rugby School pupils.
In October 1876, in an effort to refute the assertion that carrying the ball had been an ancient tradition, he wrote to The Meteor, the Rugby School magazine, that he had learnt from an unnamed source that the change from a kicking game to a handling game had "..originated with a town boy or foundationer of the name of Ellis, William Webb Ellis".