Rugby Rugby Rugby is played in Cardiff in both rugby league and rugby union forms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cardiff rugby"
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam ( 12 May 1805 - 24 April 1888), a native of Rugby in England, was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis inventing the game of Rugby football. ...more on Wikipedia about "Matthew Bloxam"
Mob Football is the name given to the forerunner of the modern games of Rugby Football and Association Football. Versions of this game can be traced back to the Romans and ancient Chinese. The game would have more resembled a riot than either of its two descendants. Mob Football usually involved groups from two connecting villages (or two groups from either end of a singular village) fighting to move a ball from one side to the other. The games were so unruly that royal bans were often placed on the playing of such sport. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mob Football"
Penny rugby, also known as Penny Football and Coin, is a coin game loosely based on rugby. The aim is to score more points than the opponent ...more on Wikipedia about "Penny rugby"
Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School. The two major sports are rugby league and rugby union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rugby football"
Scuffleball is a relatively new team game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scuffleball"
Seamus Mallon, (born November 21, 1980) is an Irish professional rugby player for Northampton Saints in the Guinness Premiership.( Photo ) Mallon was signed as a centre with the Saints in July 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seamus Mallon (rugby player)"
Tag Rugby evolved from Touch Rugby. Each player wears a belt that has two 'velcro' tags attached to it. The defenders have to pull one of the 'Velcro' tags from the ball-carrying attacking player, to force the player to pass the ball. Each team has 6 'tags" in which to score a try. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tag Rugby"
Touch (with a capital "T"), also known as touch football in Australia, is the official name of the most popular code of touch rugby. In games of Touch, which is a derivative of rugby league football, touching an opposing player replaces a tackle, avoiding the physical nature of the full contact game. Touch is overseen by the Federation of International Touch (FIT). The Australian Touch Association and the game's adherents in Australia prefer to call it touch football. ...more on Wikipedia about "Touch football (rugby league)"
The name touch rugby refers to derivatives of rugby football in which players do not tackle in the traditional, highly physical way, but instead touch their opponents using their hands on any part of the body, clothing, or the ball. ...more on Wikipedia about "Touch rugby"
Underwater Football is a sport that shares common elements of Underwater Hockey and Underwater rugby. It is: ...more on Wikipedia about "Underwater Football"
Underwater Rugby (UWR) is the only sport in which the players can move in three dimensions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Underwater rugby"
Wheelchair rugby refers to adaptation of the sports of rugby union and rugby league for wheelchair users. As with rugby itself, the sport exists in a variety of different forms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wheelchair rugby"
William Webb Ellis ( November 24, 1806 – January 24, 1872) is often credited with the invention of Rugby football. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Webb Ellis"
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