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    historians as an origin myth. The Webb Ellis Cup is presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup. William Webb Ellis was born in Salford, Lancashire...
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    competition in men's international rugby union. The Cup is named after William Webb Ellis, who is often credited as being the inventor of rugby football. The...
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  • William Webb Ellis (1806–1872), Anglican clergyman, allegedly the inventor of rugby football Billy Ellis (1895–1939), English footballer Bill Ellis (1919–2007)...
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  • Gothic architecture. He was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis' invention of the game of Rugby football. Bloxam was born on 12 May...
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    according to legend, was invented in 1823 by a Rugby schoolboy named William Webb Ellis. Rugby remained a small and fairly unimportant town until the mid-19th...
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    international governing body. The winners are awarded the Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis who, according to a popular legend, invented rugby by...
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    Warwickshire, England, near Rugby School. It takes its name from William Webb Ellis who is credited with inventing the game of Rugby football. The building...
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  • in the bicentenary year of the purported invention of the sport by William Webb Ellis. The tournament was scheduled to last six weeks, but in February 2021...
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    There were thus no formal rules for football during the time that William Webb Ellis was at the school (1816–25) and the story of the boy "who with a fine...
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    became increasingly influential in late 19th century science. Rev. William Webb Ellis (1806–1872) was an Anglican clergyman who is famous for allegedly...
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    English rugby union. It tells the history of the sport, including William Webb Ellis and Richard Lindon, using interactive display techniques. The museum...
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  • aptitude test. The school's founder, William Ellis (not to be confused with the inventor of rugby football, William Webb Ellis) was a public-spirited businessman...
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    "running with the ball" at Rugby School to the actions of William Webb Ellis in 1823: [Ellis] caught the ball in his arms. This being so, according to...
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    Wreford-Brown. It has been speculated that both this story and the William Webb Ellis rugby story are apocryphal, however this appears to be a revision...
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  • improbable and unexpected victory, and Mandela hands Pienaar the William Webb Ellis Cup, as the Springboks are now indeed rugby union's world champions...
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    Rugby Football Club (abbreviated to BNCRFC) can draw association with William Webb Ellis, who is often credited as the inventor of the game and studied at...
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  • (1974-1991) Richard Barnes, bishop in the Church of England (1567–1579) William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman; allegedly the inventor of rugby football whilst...
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  • William or Bill Webb may refer to: William Benning Webb (1825–1896), American politician and attorney William C. Webb (1824–1898), member of the Wisconsin...
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    Rugby School (category William Butterfield buildings)
    school. The legend of William Webb Ellis and the origin of the game is commemorated by a plaque. The story is that Webb Ellis was the first to pick up...
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    for them to adopt rough and tumble running games.[citation needed] William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, is said to have "with a fine disregard for...
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    building to be lit from large round-headed windows on the upper level. William Webb Ellis, often credited with the invention of Rugby football in 1823, was...
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    American Civil War portal List of American Civil War generals (Union) William Webb Ellis, sometimes apocryphally credited with inventing rugby football Abner...
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    the Premier 15s. Rugby in England is generally attributed to when William Webb Ellis "who with a fine disregard for the rules as played in his time, first...
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  • Rugby football credited to William Webb Ellis (1806–1872). 1850: The format of the modern Olympic Games inspired by William Penny Brookes (1809–1895);...
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    town. William Webb Ellis (1806–1872), inventor of rugby. He lived in Menton at the end of his life and is buried in the old cemetery. William Butler...
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  • the first codifications in the 1840s. The traditional date of the William Webb Ellis legend. He was the Rugby School pupil who, it was said later, "with...
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  • Scotland and Ireland. The game was arguably invented in 1823 by William Webb Ellis, and in 1871 the English Rugby Football Union was the first national...
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  • Awards ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland. The inaugural inductees were William Webb Ellis, who apocryphally caught the ball during a football game and ran with...
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  • after South Africa beat New Zealand by one point to reclaim the William Webb Ellis Trophy and be the first team to have won the Rugby World Cup for the...
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  • Cup. Nelson Mandela wore a Springbok rugby jersey to present the William Webb Ellis Cup to South African captain Francois Pienaar, a symbolic image of...
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