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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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    Rugby, Westminster, and Charterhouse. Public schools are elite institutions and are associated with the ruling class. Historically, public schools produced...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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