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Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league. ... Video on the Basics of Rugby Union; Full Guide of Rugby World Cup 2019 ...
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.
This category is for articles about rugby football prior to the 1895 schism that split the sport into the modern games of rugby league and rugby union and for articles about sports that derive from first laws of rugby drawn up in 1871.
A touchdown is the American football equivalent of the rugby try. Unlike American football, both codes of rugby require the ball to be grounded, whereas in American football it is sufficient for the ball to enter the end zone (in-goal area) when in the possession of a player. In American football a touchdown scores 6 points; in rugby union a ...
Both association football and rugby union have an offside rule. In rugby union, it is illegal to throw (pass) the ball in a forward direction: a player in a position to receive such a pass would in most cases be offside anyway. In association football, the ball can be passed backwards or forwards to a player on the same team, so long as the ...
The Washington Irish Rugby Football Club is a Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) rugby union team based in Washington, DC. The Washington Irish currently field two competitive men's club rugby sides, one in Division I and one in Division III. The Washington Irish compete within the Capital Geographic Union of USA Rugby.
Prince Harry Perry Knotts/Getty Images Prince Harry has learned to love football since moving to California, even if he prefers the British game of rugby he grew up with. “Good evening, NFL. It ...
Rugby league: 13 players per side Masters Rugby League; Mod league; Rugby league nines; Rugby league sevens; Touch (sport) Wheelchair rugby league; Both codes Tag rugby; Rugby fives, a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court; Underwater rugby, an underwater sport played in a swimming pool and named after rugby football ...