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Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons Wikinews Wikivoyage. Many different types of football are played throughout Britain.

Running with the ball in hands became common in s at Rugby School and Rugby School football became popular throughout the UK in the s, and s.

Shirley and Frederick Hutchins. The first ever match in Scotland was in December , Edinburgh University v. Edinburgh Academicals. The first club to play rugby outside the British Islands.

The Football Association FA is formed, formalising the schism banned carrying ball in hands, holding other players in place akin to blocking , tackling, and hacking kicking an opponent in the shins between association football and rugby football.

The first rugby clubs are formed, followed by hundreds more in Cumberland, Lancashire and Yorkshire in the s, and s. The British Army plays a game of rugby against civilians in Montreal, introducing rugby to the country.

This movement would later evolve into Canadian football. First recognised international rugby match , played between England and Scotland.

Matthew Bloxam 's letter is published in The Meteor. Although a Rugby Football Union inquiry in found no actual proof, it decided to perpetuate the myth.

English Rugby rules required for a tackled player, when the ball was "fairly held", to put the ball down immediately for scrummage.

Concerned at the growing dominance of the largely working-class northern clubs, the Rugby Football Union introduces strict amateur rules: no one was allowed to seek or receive payment or other material reward for taking part in the game.

Charges of professionalism are laid against rugby football clubs in Bradford and Leeds, after they compensated players for missing work.

Yorkshire clubs propose allowing players to be paid six shillings 'broken-time' payments when they miss work due to matches. RFU votes down proposal.

Widespread suspensions of northern clubs and players begin. Many factors played a part in the split, including the success of working class northern teams, a decree by the RFU banning the playing of rugby at grounds where entrance fees were charged, threat of expulsion from the RFU if clubs cannot prove their amateurism, and the banning of "broken time payments" to players who had taken time off work to play rugby.

Within fifteen years of that first meeting in Huddersfield, more than RFU clubs had left to join the Northern Union.

To make the game more exciting, the Northern Union abolishes the line-out and reduces value of all goals to two points.

Line outs were replaced with punting the ball back into play from the touch-line. Tries worth three points. The Challenge Cup is established and proves a success from the start.

Batley became the first winners, beating Saint Helens 10—3. Professionalism is introduced in the Northern Union. The professionalism is strictly part-time, with players obliged to have other "proper" jobs.

Rugby union features at the Olympics. It finishes in the Olympics. The experiment in the Northern Union with the punt-out ends after only four years.

In future, play will be restarted with a scrum after the ball goes out of play. First rugby league international match. England lose to Other Nationalities 3—9, at Wigan.

England play South Africa known as the Springboks in rugby union for the first time. James Peters is withdrawn from the England squad after the South Africans objected to playing against a black player.

In the Northern Union the number of players is reduced from fifteen to thirteen a side, in order to allow more room for creative play.

The early form of play-the-ball is introduced as the game's way of restarting play after a tackle.

A New Zealand professional rugby team tours Britain. Albert Henry Baskerville , a Post Office clerk in New Zealand, organises a touring side branded the 'All Golds' in Sydney due to the players receiving a share of any profits from the tour.

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Rugby League. Pundits More. Will Greenwood. Shows More. These localized versions of folk football a violent sport distinctive for its large teams and lack of rules gradually found favour within the English public independent schools, where they were modified and adapted into one of two forms: a dribbling game, played primarily with the feet, that was promoted at Eton and Harrow, and a handling game favoured by Rugby, Marlborough, and Cheltenham.

Game playing, particularly football, was encouraged at Rugby School by influential headmaster Thomas Arnold —42 , and many boys educated at this time were instrumental in the expansion of the game.

Rugby football soon became one of the most significant sports in the promotion of English and, later, British imperial manliness.

The cult of manliness that resulted centred on the public schools and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where boys were sent to learn how to become young gentlemen.

Graduates of these public schools and of Oxford and Cambridge formed the first football clubs, which led to the institutionalization of rugby. Once they had left school, many young men wanted to continue playing the game of their youth, and the early annual matches between alumni and current senior students were not enough to satisfy these players.

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