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 (section Rugby football)
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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