Rugby
Market town and railway junction in Warwickshire, central England, on the River Avon, 19 km/12 southeast of Coventry; population (2001) 61,400. Industries include engineering and the manufacture of cement, and the town has a cattle market. Rugby School (1567), a private school for boys, established its reputation under headmaster Thomas Arnold; it was described in Thomas Hughes' semi-autobiographical classic Tom Brown's Schooldays. Rugby football originated at the school in 1823.
The poet Rupert Brooke was born here in 1887.
| A village until the early 19th century, Rugby expanded with the advent of the London–Birmingham railway in 1838. |
rugby
Contact sport that is traditionally believed to have originated at Rugby School, England, in 1823 when a boy, William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball and ran with it while playing football (now soccer). It is now played in two forms: Rugby League and Rugby Union.
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| Honegger's second symphonic movement for orchestra, following Pacific 231 and succeeded by Mouvement symphonique no. 3. It is an impression of a game of rugby football. It was first performed at the Orchestre Symphonique, Paris, on 19 October 1928. |
Rugby
| Town and administrative headquarters of Pierce County, north-central North Dakota; population (1990) 2,900. It is located 97 km/60 mi east of Minot. Settled in 1886, it is a centre for local dairy products, poultry, livestock, and grain. Rugby is best known for its geographical location at what has been determined to be the centre of North America. The Geographical Center Museum here explores the area's history. |
Rugby
| Hamlet in Morgan County, northeast Tennessee. It is situated on the Clear Fork River, to the south of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Established in 1880 as an experimental colony by Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's School Days (set in Rugby, England), it was to be a rationally-developed agricultural and industrial community peopled by both English immigrants and local families. Though the experiment failed within a decade, Rugby remains a rural community visited by those interested in its history. |
rugby - events
| November 1823 | UK | During a game of football at Rugby School, England, William Webb Ellis, a pupil, picks up the ball and runs with it. This is traditionally regarded as the origin of the game of rugby, but it is several years before football at the school becomes predominantly a handling as opposed to a kicking game. |
| 1843 | UK | Guy's Hospital Rugby Football Club, the world's oldest rugby club still in existence, is founded in London, England. |
| 29 August 1895 | UK | Rugby league is born when 22 clubs in the north of England break away from the Rugby Union to form the Northern Rugby Football Union after being refused compensation for loss of wages while playing. |
| 24 June–14 August 1971 | UK, New Zealand | The British Lions win a rugby union Test series in New Zealand for the first time. |
| 22 November 2003 | Australia | England wins the rugby union World Cup for the first time, beating the host nation Australia in the final in Sydney by 20–17 after extra time. |
