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Rugby
RugbyRUGBY: A football game in which the ball is kicked or carried forward down a field to score points either by touching the ball down beyond a tryline or kicking the ball through posts. The primary rule governing the game is that no pass to a player forward of the ball is allowed. Two codes of rugby are played, Rugby Union and Rugby League. All information at this site concerns Rugby Union. Union is normally played with fifteen players, but versions of the game featuring only seven or ten players is also popular. Football is quite ancient and has existed in most every cultural group through time. The current form of Rugby Football was first developed at Rugby School in England and thus the school provided the name for the sport. We thank you for using the Star System Guide to search for Rugby. If you have a better definition for Rugby than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the "suggest a term" option above. This definition of Rugby may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Rugby and any other sports topic for the public at large. This dictionary contains 7101 terms. |
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