Rugby School
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Rugby School is a public school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England.
Rugby School, seen from 'The Close' playing field.
Lawrence Sheriff, founder of Rugby School
Thomas Arnold, Headmaster from 1828 to 1841
Game of Rugby being played on 'the Close' at Rugby School, where the sport was invented.
Rugby football
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Rugby football is a type of football, a team sport which developed in the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom, and which later split into the modern sports of rugby union and rugby league.
Rugby School
…include a UK prime minister, a French prime minister, several bishops, poets, scientists, writers and soldiers. Rugby School is the birthplace of rugby football. Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I…
Football match in Kingston upon Thames, England on 24 February, 1846
Griffins RFC Kotka, the rugby union team from Kotka, Finland, playing in the Rugby-7 Tournament in 2013
Calcio Fiorentino match in Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy, painted by Jan Van der Straet
A scrummage in a La soule game in Basse Normandie, France, 1852