Understanding Rugby

By Author: Koly Alen
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Rugby originated in the United Kingdom, its former name was rugby football. It was shorted for rugby. For its shape liked an olive, we called it "football" in China. Rugby, situated in England, was a central city. The rugby school was the birth site of rugby football. A stone tablet stood in the school, which read" In memory of W. W. Ellis's brave action ". It is said that one of its student, Ellis, once in a football match, held the ball to run as a fault under an emergency in 1823. This made the other players to follow. Although this was out of bound, it gave people a new inspiration. In Britain and the commonwealth regions, rugby attracted the interests of people who liked doing sports all over the world. Over the years, it was gradually accepted by people. Thereupon, a new sport, which derived from the football, could not only benefit your body's all-around development, but also with high value of exercise.
After 1839; rugby developed at Cambridge University little by little and opened the rugby football club in succession. The interschool competitions also got active. UK set up the Football Association in 1871, soon ...
... this sport spread quickly to European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 1886, the International Football Federation was established. In 1906, the International Football competition was held in France.
The British football changed continuously when it spread to other countries. Different forms of rugby also created by many other countries, like the United States, Canada and Australia. But the venue, equipment, rules, clothing, participate numbers and the ball's size, as well as the competition methods were all different. It could be, roughly, sorted into two kinds; British Rugby (also called soft football) and American football (also called the hard football). Its different styles and play methods won themselves the interesting nicknames. and American football was called "A barbarian plays the savage sport".
Rugby was called the hard football, because the players didn't wear guards in a competition. American football was slightly smaller than rugby, so it was easy to pass the ball.
Rugby could provide the military training with much assistance, particularly in physical training. Because rugby game required the team spirit of tenaciously combat to win. Therefore, this sport was greatly extended in the army with its popularity. For this reason, rugby won the "ball of army" reputation in western countries. In China; we also have good rugby teams in special universities.
In people's point of view, rugby was a violent sport. By contrast, rugby has more intense collision than other sports, such as basketball, soccer and the popular sports in the United States. Instead of the prohibited grapping-rugby style, to play the ball with both hands is a better choice in the campuses of American. Most of physical education all adopt the grapping method. However, after school, they would like to play the ball with both hands as an alternative method under the prerequisite of right equipment and guidance. Moreover, the fierce body collision and high risk of injury, it does not have the ability to attract women. Women always have high risk in competitions because of the insufficiency of muscles and weights. It provides the strong and quick players with more opportunities while grip and intercept the ball. The various factors we discussed above has risen disputes and has made rugby as an violence movement with dodge ball, wresting, hockey and boxing over the past decades.
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