Rugby History

Jan 09, 2014

'This stone honours the abuse of William Webb Ellis who had a good disdain for the guidelines of soccer, as played in his period, first held the ball in his hands and ran with it, thus originating the specific feature of the Rugby game A.D. 1823'   The game of rugby ball Singapore has a great past that is immersed in conventions of the times. Rugged and tumble games comprising several players on every side clashing to get hold of a ball made out of a pig's bladder inflated with air and take it to a marker at one end of an area of ground can be tracked down to the middle periods. Frequently these games have Celtic and Viking origins.    Otherwise, they can be traced back to the Romans. However, these games came to be, we do know that the people of Britain had a fondness for playing them.   There wasn't any formal set of rules to regularize these games. Instead, the local players were known to make up their unique rules on the spot. As these games were so rough and players were so frequently injured, disfigured or even wiped out in the playing of them, the law began taking actions to ban playing such games.   The laws progressed to that point as to make it unlawful to play on public properties or public roads. The laws did not discourage folk from taking part in sporting events. It just meant that the games were moved from public lands to personal lands. College turned out to popular locations for such sporting tournaments because they'd big enough areas of ground for playing, and because huge numbers of boys and young men were selected there. The classic story which has been passed down through generations is that in the year 1823 at a Brit college in the city of Rugby, a youngster by the name William Webb Ellis was involved in playing a game with his school friends. At a crucial point in the game, he displayed complete contempt for the rules and took the ball up and sprinted with it through the field, winning a point for his team.   This story, though very trendy, is seemingly not totally true. There's no real proof to back the story, but Rugby players appreciate the story and so it has stayed on. As a matter of fact, there is a stone en-graven at Rugby which bears the message found at the starting of this article. What is reality is that William Webb Ellis did go to Rugby College at around the time Rugby developed into a unique game. And that the roots of the game can be tracked to the college in rugby balls Singapore, therefore the name Rugby was conferred to the game.   The game had won approval by the 1840's, and Rugby clubs started to emerge throughout the country. Nonetheless, there were yet no uniform rules, and each club played by their unique rules. In Jan of 1871, a meeting was held in which members from all twenty-two Rugby clubs were in attendance. During this meeting the Rugby soccer Union was founded and a delegation was selected to create a standard set of rules. The rules were introduced by June 1871, and the official sport of Rugby was born.   In the 1890's the division between economic classes split the Rugby union in two. This break slowed the progression of Rugby Football for virtually a century. During that time Rugby continued to be played in clubs around Europe, Australia and New Zealand, but other sports which also bounced from the seeds of those primitive sports played with an blown up pig's bladder, for example American football and soccer progressed into the foreground. Nowadays, Rugby is making a return. Latterly, members of the global Olympic committee voted to include Rugby Sevens as an official sport in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.  

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