Rugby football is a collective name for the family of team sports of rugby union and rugby league as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games association football australian rules football and gridiron football evolved.
What is rugby.
The town is the main settlement within the larger borough of rugby which has a population of 100 500 2011 census.
Rugby football game played with an oval ball by two teams of 15 players in rugby union play or 13 players in rugby league play.
Both rugby union and rugby league have their origins in the style of football played at rugby school in england.
According to the sport s lore in 1823 william webb ellis a pupil at rugby school defied the conventions of the day that the ball may only be.
Rugby is on the eastern edge of warwickshire near the borders of leicestershire and northamptonshire.