The most widely accepted version of the game's origins describes how in 1823, William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, invented the game when he picked up a football and ran towards the ...

On 26 January 1871, representatives from clubs across the country met to form the Rugby Football Union, the sport's governing body, to draw up a common code of laws. Soon after the RFU was formed, the ...

Modern rugby union as we love it today can trace its roots back to 1823 in Warwickshire. The traditional story credits William Webb Ellis with inventing the modern day game at Rugby School in ...

1908 Formation of the Queensland Rugby Association (later Queensland ... 1997 Historic series of meetings at Sydney Football Stadium in December brings about a peace deal between ARL and ...

As the club game sought to establish itself as a professional entity a way forward was to be discussed, and central to talks was the fraught relationship between the Rugby Football Union and the ...

Juventus’s Allianz Stadium will be used as the venue when the Italy national rugby team host the All Blacks of New Zealand in ...

The use of Rolls-Royce leather has been extended beyond the interior of 'Wraith – History of Rugby'. Gilbert, the iconic manufacturer of rugby balls – and the maker of the very same football ...

While everyone was getting ready for the Head of the Charles last weekend, the Harvard rugby football club, also known as the men’s club rugby team, was preparing for an historic trip to ...

It will be the first time that we will host a non-football event ... which concerns the history of rugby. We have also received memorabilia from the New Zealand federation and it will remain ...