Stidues showthat in there were 3. In , at the Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, rugby was born. The game was coined by a year-old student, William Webb Ellis whose name is lent to the floating trophy awarded to the winning team of the Rugby World Cup every four years , who — while playing a game of football — picked up the ball and ran with it under his arm. Fast forward 16 years and Arthur Pell established the first rugby team at Cambridge University.
In the late s the Rugby Football Union — which is still in existence today — was formed. It was the world governing body for rugby until World Rugby took over in In , Scotland beat England in the first international fixture and the following year the Oxford and Cambridge universities played in their first Varsity Cup match.
A dangerous move and one that would not find its way into the fast developing rule book until The rules and the fame of the game spread quickly as the Rugby School boys moved onwards and upwards, first to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The first university match was played in From the universities, the graduating teachers introduced the game to other English, Welsh and Scottish schools, and overseas postings for the Old Rugbeians who had moved through to the army officer class, promoted its growth on the international stage. The photograph below shows the young gentlemen of that formed the backbone of the Rugby Schools First XX.
More recently in the modern game, England became the first northern hemisphere team to win the Rugby World Cup in Below a recent photograph of the victorious England captain, Martin Johnson, signing autographs on the Close at the birthplace of rugby football, Rugby School in Warwickshire. In , silver rupees were melted down to create the Calcutta Cup, the trophy for the fiercely contested, annual rugby football match between Scotland and England Published: August 30, Related articles.
It was a major source of entertainment and fun. The idea was to steal away the round mass by taking it and running away from the opponent in the players own territory. This territory extended till miles away. Two villages who contested played with their best might and fought to take the ownership and win the ball.
They assumed the ball to be the opponents head and put their lives to win it. He is known to banish it passing a Royal Decree in , and exterminating and punishing the people who played it. One very bewildering thing about Rugby is that it has been called by different names like Football, Soccer etc. It became so popular that it even passed Derby which was a local game played in the town of Derby in The English Midlands. The popularity reached such a dangerous level that it resulted in large deaths and killings due to the rumbustious nature of the game.
People played to win at any cost. Most of the historians have mentioned it as a plunderous, cold-blooded game of complete idiosyncracies. This was the reason many old English monarchs had to ban the game at one point in time.
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