The most widely accepted version of the game's origins describes how in 1823, William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, invented the game when he picked up a football and ran towards the ...
He's the boy who brought rugby to the world (...or so the story goes). Wow, how did he manage that then? William, or Bill to his mates, was a pupil at posh Rugby School in Warwickshire during the ...
The UK's chief medical officers (CMOs) are being urged to protect children from the risks of rugby injuries by removing contact from the school game. Prof Allyson Pollock, from Newcastle ...