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Rugby stemmed from the United Kingdom, and rugby football was its original name, which was short 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 ". They said that once in a football match, Ellis, was running with the ball in his arms in a moment of emergency, which was regarded as a mistake in 1823. But it caused the other players to follow. Although this was a foul, it provided people with a new revelation. In Britain and the commonwealth regions, rugby attracted the interests of people who liked doing sports all over the world. As time passed, it was gradually recognized by others. So, a new sport with great importance of exercise and with the advantages in your body's comprehensive development, derived from the football.
Rugby gradually developed at Cambridge University after 1839 and established the rugby football club one after another. The intercollegiate games also became very active. In 1871, UK established the Football Association, which made rugby spread quickly to other areas, such as European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 1886, the International Football Federation was established. The International Football game was held in France in 1906.
When the British football transmitted to other countries, it changed constantly. Many countries even created their own forms of rugby, such as 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). They gained amusing nicknames on account of the various styles and play methods. and American football was called "A barbarian plays the savage sport".
The rugby players didn't wear guards. They basically used the clothes of football players, so, it was called the hard football. Rugby was a little bigger than American football, thus the ball could not be as easily passed as the ball in American.
Needing the team spirit of tenaciously strives to succeed, rugby was helpful to military training, and especially in physical stamina training. 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. Nowadays, some of the individual universities also have their good rugby teams in China.
Rugby has been criticized as an exercise of violence. Because when you compare rugby with some sports, such as basketball, soccer and other popular sports in United States, many violent collisions would be actually happen. Grapping-rugby is banned in many American campuses, so it has been changed into the style of touch the ball with hands. Most PE classes all use the type of hands-touch. But after school, they can play the grapping method under the circumstances of equipment and guidance. Moreover, the fierce body collision and high risk of injury, it does not have the ability to attract women. In shortage of muscles and weights, women always have a high risk in competions. The balls which need grip give the strong and quick players more advantages. What we have discussed above has already caused controversy, so in the past few decades, rugby and dodge ball, wresting, hockey and boxing has been listed as violence.
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