What is rugby?, this is the game of which country?
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The folk law says that in the English town of Rugby, during a soccer match, one young player picked up the ball and started running and all the others tried to catch him.\n\nThe game of Rugby Union was born.\n\nThe basic idea is that the ball must be passed backwards to a team mate [that is someone standing behind you in relation to the goal line] who then runs forward and passes the ball back etc etc.\n\nIn Rugby Union, once you have been tackled to the ground without having been able to pass the ball, you must release the ball backwards by placing in stationary on the ground.\nThe other team may not [in general circumstances] snatch it away, and one of your own team will pick the ball up and it starts again.\n\nIn Rugby League, [a breakaway code that strted in Australia over a dispute about player payment and professional/amature status] the rules are slightly different. \n\nTo the casual observer, the main difference will be that once tackled, both teams reset in defensive and attacking lines respectively, and the player who has the ball "plays the ball" by placing it on the ground and quickly rolling it back between his legs to a player known as the "dummy half" who may pick it up and run or pass etc.\n\nThe term "dummy half" is not used because he is a "dummy" but rather because his position in waiting for the ball is like a "dummy" or "fake" HALFBACK, which is a player who has the function of waiting for the ball to come out of a "scrum". \n\nRugby uninion and Rugby league can best be described in relation to one another in the same way that Softball and Baseball have many similarities.
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canada at least, they got their own league, the CFL, here, in europe, we have a pro league too called the NFLE (E for Europe), teams are mostly based in germany, otherwise, each european country has its own non-pro league\nTo answer your second question, no, (US) football and rugby are to different sports; they have some things in common, like, for instance, the shape of the ball (although the pigskin is a bit smaller than the rugby ball) and the way to score points (entering the endzone with the ball) although in tugby, the ball MUST touch the ground in order to score the 5 or 6 pts...
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Are you mad, rugby of course!!!!!!!!!
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Rugby!! No pu$$y protective gear like in American football. It's significantly more physical and requires more braincells to play.
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It is called The Rugby Times in U.K.
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they have American football...which actually is adapted from rugby, play in England and most of common-wealth countries. So not to confuse with their popular game they called football..soccer.
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It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched ... This match was also the first where the duration of the game was ... look below this is a perfect website for your answer!
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ok, I've seen some rugby games and let me tell you, i was scared for all of them, those men BEAT the crap out of each other..i saw grown man breakin legs intentionally, I saw things I have never seen in a sport. They are competetive, strong, and fast. and its not all about the money and glamour of football..they actually love the game. so my answer is rugby. Ever see them butthead each other?..bloodiest sport ever.
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Rugby was started in the UK and like cricket it spread to the colonies and introduced into the school systems by English dominated governments.  Australian Rules Football started in Australia and since Australia did not colonise other countries it could not spread.  Just like baseball and Gridiron in America or hurling in Ireland.  \n\nAussie Rules does have amateur leagues in a lot of countries but it is doubtful it will ever gain as much popularity as it has in Australia.
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I'm leaning toward Rugby players.  Because the pushing against each (is that a scrum?)  Tackling and getting up, getting grabbed and still kicking the ball.  Even though soccer players get beat up too but the contact is really not allowed.  Contact is not a legal part of the game.
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BASKET BALL, FOOTBALL, TENNIS, RUGBY & GOLF.
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I can't speak to the comparison between the two because I have no idea what rugby is like.  Essentially...  The team with the ball has four chances (called "downs") to advance the ball ten yards.  If successful, they get four new downs to advance the ball another ten yards, and they try to keep going, ten yards at a time, until they reach the end zone (this is a "touchdown," which is worth six points plus a chance for one more if they kick a short field goal).  Probably 95-99 times out of 100 if the team hasn't advanced the ball ten yards after third down, they'll use fourth down to either punt it to the other team or attempt to kick a field goal (for three points).  Football is far too complex to fully explain here (check that wikipedia link that the other person left), but those are the most basic of the basics for the new football-watcher.
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Assuming you mean rugby union, Wikipedia has an excellent summary of the game.\n\nSports Authority and Modell's won't have rugby gear.  The internet is your best bet.  \n\nThe only tip I can share is that if you can't avoid being tackled, run into the tackler low, shoulder first, and at full speed.  Make him wish he'd let you run by him.
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Rugby is more dinamic, mainly because you can not block someone without the ball, and yards are harder to get passing the ball backwards forces you to run more, and it does not have time out every  few seconds...
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The games of american football, soccer, and rugby all originated from the same basic game but with different rules.  We have to thank the students of the 1880s for the word "soccer". It was the practice amonst the well bred students of Oxford to abbreviate words whilst adding "er" to the end; "brekkers" for breakfast for example. They would be asked if they wanted to play "rugger" ("rugby rules") a student replied "no, soccer", an abbreviation of "association", or the "association rules", also known as the rules of the Football Association in London. As'soc'iation (doesn't really fit with our pronunciation of the word exactly but i see how it makes sense).  Footer was also used and for whatever reason the evovled term "football" became more popular in the UK while the term "soccer" popularized in the US although it was used in the UK for a brief period of time.
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sport is Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. \nand game is A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy. I hope this helps
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I wish I knew, mate! I'm a big All Blacks fan, but here in the states there isn't any coverage of rugby that I'm aware of.