Both rugby union and rugby league have their origins in the style of football played at rugby school in england.
What is rugby.
Rugby definition is a football game in which play is continuous without time outs or substitutions interference and forward passing are not permitted and kicking dribbling lateral passing and tackling are featured.
Canadian football grey cup still has rugby football written on it and to a lesser extent american football were also broadly considered forms of.
Rugby football is a collective name for the family of team sports of rugby union and rugby league as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games association football australian rules football and gridiron football evolved.
The town is the main settlement within the larger borough of rugby which has a population of 100 500 2011 census.
According to the sport s lore in 1823 william webb ellis a pupil at rugby school defied the conventions of the day that the ball may only be.