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    Rugby School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free...
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    south-south-west of Leicester. Rugby became a market town in 1255. In 1567, Rugby School was founded as a grammar school for local boys but, by the 18th...
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    Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England...
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    Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire...
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    Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's...
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  • The Rugby Group is a group of 18 British public schools. The group was formed in the 1960s as an association of major boarding schools within the Headmasters'...
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    Leinster Schools Senior Challenge Cup is the premier rugby union competition for secondary schools affiliated to the Leinster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football...
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    Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, Westminster, and Charterhouse. Public schools are associated with the ruling class. Historically, public schools produced many of...
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    football switched to the Rugby code. In 1845, the first rules of rugby were written by Rugby School pupils. But various rules of rugby had existed until the...
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  • American flag rugby Beach rugby Mini rugby Rugby sevens, 7 players per side Rugby tens, 10 players per side Snow rugby Touch rugby Tambo rugby Rugby league:...
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    neighbouring Rugby School in 1823. The balls had an inner-tube made of a pig's bladder. Both men owned boot and shoe making businesses located close to Rugby school...
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    The 1797 Rugby School Rebellion was a mutiny of the boys at Rugby School after the headmaster, Dr Henry Ingles, demanded that boys from the fifth and...
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    article: Laws of Football played at Rugby School (1845) "Football" as a game was well established by 1803 at Rugby school and by the 1830s, "running in" with...
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  • houses. The school is a member of the Rugby Group, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, and the Oxfordshire Independent and State School Partnership...
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  • Harrow School, Radley College, Rugby School, Marlborough College, Wellington College, Canford School, St Edward's School, Oxford, Stowe School and Abingdon...
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  • the Eton College (1815) and Aldenham school (1825) football rules, and rugby football (1845). British public schools football also directly influenced the...
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    As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools. His reforms redefined...
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    Radley College (redirect from Radley School)
    rackets, real tennis, rugby sevens, squash and water polo. Rugby is the major sport of the Michaelmas term. The school fields 23 rugby teams on most Saturdays...
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    time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it" in 1823 at the Rugby School, although modern scholars consider this story to be a myth. One of the...
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  • Rugby School Thailand (Thai: โรงเรียนนานาชาติรักบี้, RTGS: Rong Rian Nana Chat Rakbi) (RST) is a private co-educational British international school in...
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    William Webb Ellis (category People educated at Rugby School)
    inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match...
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    School is a boys' grammar school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan founder of Rugby School...
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    member of the Rugby Group. Rugby School, Princethorpe College and Warwick School are HMC schools, with the Headmaster from each school attending the Headmasters'...
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    College, Radley College, Harrow School, Charterhouse School, Oundle School, Rugby School, St Paul's School, Westminster School and Winchester College. The...
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  • students – known as "Old Rugbeians" of the Church of England school, Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College...
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    The school has produced a number of international rugby players throughout the history of rugby union. In 1871, in the first ever international rugby match...
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    St Paul’s School. Retrieved 12 March 2019. "Rugby – St Paul's School". St Paul’s School. Griffiths, Robert Watts, Sian. "Private School Pay List: rise...
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    The King's School is a public school in Canterbury, Kent, England. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group...
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    longer in common use) The school has produced a number of sportsmen in cricket, rugby and other sports. For a listing of rugby internationals, see Old Merchant...
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  • Ulster Schools' Challenge Cup is an annual competition involving schools affiliated to the Ulster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union. The Schools' Cup...
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