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Rugby football

Index Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union. [1]

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Alan Prescott

George Alan Prescott (17 June 1927 – 20 September 1998) was an English rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and coach of the 1960s.

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Albert Goldthorpe

Albert Edward Goldthorpe (3 November 1871 – 8 January 1943) was an English rugby footballer from the period around 1895's schism in English rugby, which led to the formation of rugby league football around the turn of the century.

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Albert Henry Baskerville

Albert (Bert) Henry Baskerville (born as "Baskiville") (15 January 1883 – 20 May 1908) was a Wellington postal clerk, a rugby union forward, author of the book "Modern Rugby Football: New Zealand Methods; Points for the Beginner, the Player, the Spectator" and a pioneer of rugby league.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Andy Gregory

Andrew "Andy" Gregory (born 10 August 1961) is an English former professional rugby league footballer.

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Antiphanes of Berge

Antiphanes of Berge (or Antiphanes the Younger, Greek: Ἀντιφάνης ὁ Βεργαῖος, 4th century BC) of Berge, a town near Amphipolis, was a Greek writer of the book Ἄπιστα (Apista; "Unbelievable Things").

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia national rugby league team

The Australian national rugby league team (or the Kangaroos) have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competition since the establishment of the 'Northern Union game' in Australia in 1908.

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Australia national rugby union team

The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is controlled by Rugby Australia.

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Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT; known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938) is Australia's federal district, located in the south-east of the country and enclaved within the state of New South Wales.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Balloon (game)

Balloon, balloon-ball or wind-ball was a game similar to the modern game of volleyball in which a leather ball would be batted by the fist or forearm to prevent it from touching the ground.

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Barbarian F.C.

The Barbarian Football Club, usually called the Barbarians and nicknamed the Baa-Baas, is an invitational rugby union team based in Britain.

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Basques

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Bath Rugby

Bath Rugby (also known as just Bath) is an English professional rugby union club in Bath, Somerset.

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Batley Bulldogs

The Batley Bulldogs are an English professional rugby league club in Batley, West Yorkshire who play in the Championship.

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Billy Stott

William "Billy" Isaac C. Stott (16 April 1913 – third ¼ 1972) was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Blood replacement

In both rugby union and rugby league, a blood replacement (also referred to as a blood substitution or blood bin) is a special kind of substitution which can be used in the case of a player having to leave the field of play temporarily to have a wound attended to.

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Brian Bevan

Brian Earl Bevan (1924–1991) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame.

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British Amateur Rugby League Association

The British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) is an association for social and recreational rugby league.

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Cahors Rugby

Cahors Rugby are a French rugby union club.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian football

Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone).

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Cardiff Arms Park

Cardiff Arms Park (Parc yr Arfau Caerdydd), also known as The Arms Park and the BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park for sponsorship reasons from September 2014, is situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Catalans

The Catalans (Catalan, French and Occitan: catalans; catalanes, Italian: catalani) are a Pyrenean/Latin European ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia (Spain), in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Catalans Dragons

The Catalans Dragons (French and Catalan: Dragons Catalans) are a professional rugby league club in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.

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Cec Thompson

Cec Thompson (12 July 1926 – 19 July 2011) was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

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Challenge Cup

The Challenge Cup (also known as the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup due to sponsorship by Ladbrokes) is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Churchill Cup

The Churchill Cup was an annual rugby union tournament, held in June, contested by representative men's (and formerly women's) teams from Canada, England, the United States, and other invited teams (originally one and later three) from a wide array of countries.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC.

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Clement of Alexandria

Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria (Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. 150 – c. 215), was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.

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College football

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

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Comparison of American and Canadian football

American and Canadian football are gridiron codes of football that are very similar.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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County Limerick

County Limerick (Contae Luimnigh) is a county in Ireland.

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Dally Messenger

Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger (12 April 1883 – 24 November 1959) was one of Australasia's first professional rugby footballers, recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code.

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David Hinchliffe

David Martin Hinchliffe (born 14 October 1948) was Labour Member of Parliament for Wakefield from 1987 to 2005 when he stood down and was replaced by Mary Creagh.

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Down (gridiron football)

A down is a period in which a play transpires in American and Canadian football.

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Drop kick

A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Eden Park

Eden Park is New Zealand's largest sports stadium.

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Edinburgh Academical Football Club

The Edinburgh Academical Football Club, also known as Edinburgh Accies or Edinburgh Acads, is a rugby union football club in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Edinburgh University RFC

Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club is a leading rugby union side based in Edinburgh, Scotland which currently plays its fixtures in the Edinburgh Regional Shield competition and the British Universities Premiership.

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Ellery Hanley

Ellery Cuthwyn Hanley MBE (born 27 March 1961) is a British former professional rugby league footballer who played professionally from 1978 to 1997.

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England national rugby league team

The England national rugby league team represents England in international rugby league.

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Episkyros

Episkyros (ἐπίσκυρος; also called ἐπίκοινος epikoinos, "commonball") was an ancient Greek ball game.

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European Rugby Champions Cup

The European Rugby Champions Cup (known as the Heineken Champions Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union tournament organised by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR).

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Flanker (rugby union)

Flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union.

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Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.

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Football helmet

The football helmet is a piece of protective equipment used mainly in American football and Canadian football.

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Formation (American football)

A formation in football refers to the position players line up in before the start of a down.

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Forward pass

In several forms of football a forward pass is a throwing of the ball in the direction that the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Rugby League Federation

The French Rugby League Federation (Fédération Française de Rugby à XIII (FFR) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league football in France. The Federation was formed during 1934 and since then has organized and governed the French rugby league championship, the Lord Derby Cup and all of the clubs that are contained within those organisations. The FFR also controls the France national rugby league team organizing fixtures that they compete in, they also have a major voting position in the Rugby League International Federation where they help organise many aspects of rugby league worldwide. Following development work by both Harry Sunderland (on behalf of the Australian Rugby League) and the Rugby Football League based in England, the Australian and Great British Test teams played an exhibition game at Stade Pershing in Paris in late December 1933. The French Rugby League was formed on 6 April 1934. The Federation was arguably at its most progressive under the presidency of Paul Barrière. Barrière was a driving force in the formation of an International Board for the sport in 1948 and the institution of a World Cup in 1954.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Grand Slam (rugby union)

In rugby union, a Grand Slam (Irish: Caithréim Mhór. Welsh: Y Gamp Lawn. French: Grand Chelem) occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its Five Nations predecessor) manages to beat all the others during one year's competition.

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Gridiron football

Gridiron football,.

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Gus Risman

Augustus John Ferdinand Risman (21 March 1911 – 17 October 1994), also known by the nickname of "Gus", was a Welsh rugby league footballer of the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Harpastum

Harpastum, also known as harpustum, was a form of ball game played in the Roman Empire.

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Harry Hamill

Henry Clay 'Harry' Hamill (1879–1947) was a pioneer Australian rugby league player of the 1900s, and a co-founder of Rugby League in Australia.

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History of American football

The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.

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History of rugby league

The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from England's established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition.

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England.

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Hunslet R.L.F.C.

Hunslet R.L.F.C. is a professional Rugby League club in Hunslet South Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which plays in Betfred League 1.

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Indoor American football

In the United States, indoor football is football played at ice hockey-sized indoor arenas (as opposed to certain NFL teams which have large indoor stadiums, such as the New Orleans Saints who play in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome).

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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James Peters (rugby)

James 'Jimmy' Peters (7 August 1879 – 26 March 1954) was an English rugby union player and, later, a rugby league player.

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Jason Robinson (rugby)

Jason Thorpe Robinson OBE (born 30 July 1974) is an English former dual-code international rugby league, and rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s.

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Jean Galia

Jean Galia (born 20 March 1905 in Ille-sur-Têt, Pyrénées-Orientales, died 17 January 1949 in Toulouse) was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer and champion boxer.

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Lance Todd

Lancelot Beaumont "Lance" Todd (1874–1942) was a New Zealand-born rugby league footballer and manager of the early 20th century.

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Lance Todd Trophy

The Lance Todd Trophy is a trophy in rugby league, awarded to the annual Challenge Cup Final's man of the match.

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League 1 (rugby league)

League 1 (for sponsorship reasons currently known as the Betfred League 1), is a professional rugby league competition based in England.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Line of scrimmage

In American and Canadian football, a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line (across the width of the football field) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun.

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Line-out (rugby union)

A line-out or lineout is a means by which, in rugby union, play is restarted after the ball has gone into touch.

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Matthew Bloxam

Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (12 May 1805 – 24 April 1888), a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, was a Warwickshire antiquary and amateur archeologist, author of a popular guide to Gothic architecture.

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Middle class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.

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Montevideo Cricket Club

The Montevideo Cricket Club (abbreviated "MVCC") is an Uruguayan sports club based in Montevideo, established in 1861 by English immigrants.

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Munster Rugby

Munster Rugby (Rugbaí Mumhan) is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from the island of Ireland.

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National Rugby League

The National Rugby League (NRL) is a league of professional men's rugby league teams in Australasia.

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National sport

A national sport is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales Rugby League

The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body of rugby league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission.

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New South Wales Rugby Union

The New South Wales Rugby Union, or NSWRU, is the governing body for the sport of rugby union within most of the state of New South Wales in Australia.

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New Zealand national rugby league team

The New Zealand national rugby league team (Māori: Tīma rīki motu Aotearoa) has represented New Zealand in rugby league since 1907.

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New Zealand Rugby

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) is the governing body of rugby union in New Zealand.

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News Corporation

The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Occitania

Occitania (Occitània,,,, or) is the historical region and a nation, in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language.

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Other Nationalities rugby league team

The Other Nationalities rugby league team regularly played international, and also county, rugby league football teams in Europe from 1904 to 1975.

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Oxford "-er"

The Oxford "-er", or often "-ers", is a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, which is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Pacific Cup

The Pacific Cup is a rugby league football competition for national teams from the Pacific region.

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Pacific Islands

The Pacific Islands are the islands of the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Tri-Nations

The Pacific Tri-Nations was the traditional rugby union series between Tonga, Fiji and Samoa.

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Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and ultimate tensile strength.

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Paul Gallen

Paul Gallen (born 14 August 1981) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League.

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Penalty box

The penalty box or sin bin (sometimes called the bad box, or simply bin or box) is the area in ice hockey, roller derby, rugby league, rugby union and some other sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty, for an offence not severe enough to merit outright expulsion from the contest.

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Player of the match

In team sports, a player of the match, man of the match, or player of the game award is often given to the outstanding player in a particular match.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby (officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership due to sponsorship reasons) is an English professional rugby union competition.

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PRO Rugby

The Professional Rugby Organization, known as PRO Rugby, was an American professional rugby union competition.

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Professional sports

Professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, are sports in which athletes receive payment for their performance.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

A public school in England and Wales is a long-established, student-selective, fee-charging independent secondary school that caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18, and whose head teacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Rugby ball

A rugby ball is an elongated ellipsoidal ball used in rugby football.

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Rugby Football League

The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England.

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Rugby Football Union

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby League Emerging Nations Tournament

In 1995 and 2000, the Rugby League International Federation held an Emerging Nations Tournament alongside the Rugby League World Cup.

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Rugby League European Championship

The Rugby League European Championship (formerly known as the European Cup and European Nations Cup) is a rugby league football tournament for European national teams that was first held in 1935.

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Rugby League European Federation

The Rugby League European Federation (RLEF) is the umbrella body for nations playing the sport of rugby league football across Europe and the Northern Hemisphere.

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Rugby league in Lebanon

The seeds of rugby league in Lebanon lie in Australia.

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Rugby league in Papua New Guinea

Rugby league is a popular team sport in Papua New Guinea, and is the national sport.

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Rugby league in Russia

Rugby league is a team sport in Russia.

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Rugby league in Serbia

Rugby league is a team sport that is played in Serbia, which now has almost 1000 registered players nationwide, many of which are juniors.

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Rugby league in the United States

Rugby league football is a sport in the United States.

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Rugby League International Federation

The Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) is the global governing body for the sport of rugby league football.

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Rugby league positions

A rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field, with four substitutes on the bench.

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Rugby League World Cup

The Rugby League World Cup is an international rugby league tournament, contested by national teams of the Rugby League International Federation, which was first held in France in 1954, the first World Cup in either rugby code.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens), and originally known as Seven-a-side rugby is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40 minute halves.

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Rugby shirt

A rugby shirt is a shirt worn by players of rugby union or rugby league.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Rugby union at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, United States beat the other two competitors in the rugby union tournament, winning the gold medal.

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Rugby union in Argentina

Rugby union in Argentina is a popular team sport.

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Rugby union in Australia

Rugby Union is a winter sport in Australia with a history dating back to 1864.

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Rugby union in Belgium

Rugby union in Belgium is a growing sport.

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Rugby union in Brazil

Rugby union in Brazil is a minor but growing sport, with rugby union increasing in popularity at universities across Brazil.

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Rugby union in Canada

Rugby union is a moderately popular sport in Canada; it is quite strong as a participation sport, particularly in several hotspots like British Columbia, Atlantic Canada (particularly in Newfoundland and Labrador), and Ontario but does not attract the same level of spectator support yet, likely because the CFL's popular brand of Canadian Football is still similar to rugby in many ways, whilst also being the gridiron game.

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Rugby union in Chile

Rugby union in Chile is a fairly popular sport.

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Rugby union in England

Rugby union in England is one of the leading professional and recreational team sports.

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Rugby union in Fiji

Rugby union in Fiji is a popular team sport and is considered to be the national sport of the country.

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Rugby union in France

Rugby union in France is a popular team sport.

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Rugby union in Georgia

Rugby union in Georgia is a popular team sport.

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Rugby union in Germany

Rugby union in Germany is a minor but growing sport with 124 men's clubs and 5 women's clubs competing in 4 men's and 1 women's national leagues.

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Rugby union in Hong Kong

Rugby union in Hong Kong is long established, partly as a result of its being a British colony.

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Rugby union in Ireland

Rugby union in Ireland is a popular team sport.

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Rugby union in Italy

Rugby union in Italy is governed by the Italian Rugby Federation.

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Rugby union in Japan

Rugby union in Japan is a moderately popular sport.

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Rugby union in Kenya

Rugby union in Kenya is a popular sport, in particular due to the success of the Kenya national rugby sevens team in the rugby sevens format, and tournaments such as the Safari Sevens, which has been growing yearly, and now includes numerous international teams.

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Rugby union in Madagascar

Rugby union in Madagascar is a popular team sport.

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Rugby union in Namibia

Rugby union in Namibia is a popular team sport in Namibia and its predecessor province of South West Africa.

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Rugby union in New Zealand

Rugby union is the unofficial national sport of New Zealand.

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Rugby union in Portugal

Rugby union in Portugal is a growing sport, though still a long distance from association football.

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Rugby union in Romania

Rugby union is a moderately popular team sport played in Romania with a tradition of more than 90 years.

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Rugby union in Russia

Rugby union in Russia is a moderately popular sport.

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Rugby union in Samoa

Rugby union in Samoa is the country's most popular sport.

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Rugby union in Scotland

Rugby union in Scotland is a team sport.

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Rugby union in South Africa

Rugby union in South Africa is a very popular team sport, along with cricket and football, and is widely played all over the country.

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Rugby union in Spain

Rugby union is a growing team sport in Spain.

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Rugby union in the Netherlands

Rugby union in the Netherlands is a minor but growing sport.

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Rugby union in the United States

Rugby union in the United States is a growing national sport.

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Rugby union in Tonga

Rugby union is the national sport of Tonga.

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Rugby union in Uruguay

Rugby union in Uruguay is considered a popular sport.

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Rugby union in Wales

Rugby union in Wales is the national sport and is considered a large part of national culture.

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Rugby union positions

In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15).

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Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.

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Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon.

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Ryan Tandy

Ryan Tandy (20 September 1981 – 28 April 2014) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 2000s and 2010s.

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Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders (The Mairches, "The Marches"; Scottish Gaelic: Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Scrum (rugby union)

In rugby union a scrum is a means of restarting play after a minor infringement.

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Scrum (rugby)

A scrum (short for scrummage) is a method of restarting play in rugby that involves players packing closely together with their heads down and attempting to gain possession of the ball.

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Set piece (football)

The term set piece or set play is used in association football and rugby football to refer to a situation when the ball is returned to open play, for example following a stoppage, particularly in a forward area of the pitch.

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Shaun Edwards

Shaun Edwards, OBE (born 17 October 1966) is a rugby union coach, and former professional rugby league footballer.

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Shoulder pads

Shoulder pads are a piece of protective equipment used in many contact sports such as American football, Canadian football, lacrosse and hockey.

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Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship (recently known as the NatWest 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

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Snap (gridiron football)

A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backwards passing of the ball in American and Canadian football at the start of play from scrimmage.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks, is governed by the South African Rugby Union.

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South African Rugby Union

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) is the governing body for rugby union in South Africa and is affiliated to World Rugby.

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South American Rugby Championship

South American Rugby Championship refers to the continental rugby championships for South America, organized by Sudamérica Rugby.

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South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league team based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-southern Sydney, New South Wales.

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St Helens R.F.C.

St Helens R.F.C. is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside currently competing in the Super League, the top tier of competition for rugby league in Europe.

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Stade de France

The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis.

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State of Origin series

The State of Origin series is the annual best-of-three rugby league football match series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.

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State school

State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.

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States and territories of Australia

Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.

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Super League

Super League (currently known as the Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons) is the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern hemisphere.

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Super League war

The Super League war was the dispute over control of the top-level professional rugby league competition in Australia and New Zealand in the mid-1990s, between the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and Super League (Australia).

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Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle.

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Team sport

A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Football Association

The Football Association (FA) is the governing body of association football in England, the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Original All Blacks

The Original All Blacks (also known simply as "The Originals") were the first New Zealand national rugby union team to tour outside Australasia.

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The Rugby Championship

The Rugby Championship is an international rugby union competition contested annually by Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

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Toronto Wolfpack

Toronto Wolfpack RLFC is a Canadian professional rugby league club, based in Toronto, which competes in the British Rugby Football League system.

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Touch (rugby)

Touch is the area outside two touch-lines which define the sides of the playing area in a game of rugby football.

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Touch-line

The touch-line is the line on either side of the playing area of a games of rugby league, rugby union and association football.

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Twickenham Stadium

Twickenham Stadium (usually known as Twickenham or Twickers) is a rugby union stadium in Twickenham, south west London, England.

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Universal football

Universal football was the name given to a proposed hybrid sport of Australian rules football and rugby league, proposed at different times between 1908 and 1933 as a potential national football code to be played throughout Australia.

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Upper class

The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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Walter Camp

Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football".

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Waterproofing

Waterproofing is the process of making an object or structure waterproof or water-resistant so that it remains relatively unaffected by water or resisting the ingress of water under specified conditions.

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West Country

The West Country is a loosely defined area of south western England.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Wigan Warriors

Wigan Warriors is a professional Rugby League club based in Wigan, England.

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William Webb Ellis

The Reverend William Webb Ellis (24 November 1806 – 24 January 1872) was an English Anglican clergyman and the alleged inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School.

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World Club Challenge

The World Club Challenge is an annual rugby league competition between the winners of the Australian NRL and the European Super League.

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World Rugby

World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union and rugby sevens.

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World Rugby Sevens Series

The World Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1871 Scotland versus England rugby union match

The 1871 rugby union match between Scotland and England played on 27 March 1871 was the world's very first international rugby union match.

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1883 Home Nations Championship

The 1883 Home Nations Championship was the inaugural series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship.

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1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia

The 1888 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was a tour by a British rugby union team, known at the time as the "English Footballers", throughout New Zealand and Australia.

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1888–89 New Zealand Native football team

The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889.

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1900 Summer Olympics

The 1900 Summer Olympics (Les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, in 1900.

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1907–08 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain

The 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain was made by a group of New Zealand rugby footballers who played matches in Australia, Ceylon, England and Wales between 1907 and 1908.

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1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain

The 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the first ever such tour for the newly-formed Australia national rugby league team (or 'The Kangaroos').

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1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand

The 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand was the first international tour of the Great Britain national rugby league team, "The Lions".

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1912–13 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe

The 1912–13 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the South Africa side against England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France.

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1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand

The 1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand was the second ever British national rugby league team or 'Lions' tour of Australasia, where it was winter and matches were played against the Australian and New Zealand national sides, as well as several local teams.

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1924 Summer Olympics

The 1924 Summer Olympics (Les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1924 in Paris, France.

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1924–25 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France

The Invincibles was a nickname given to the 1924–25 New Zealand national team which toured the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Canada.

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1954 Rugby League World Cup

The 1954 Rugby League World Cup was rugby league football's first World Cup and was held in France in October-November 1954.

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1976 Summer Olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially called the Games of the XXI Olympiad (French: Les XXIes olympiques d'été), was an international multi-sport event in Montreal, Quebec, in 1976, and the first Olympic Games held in Canada.

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1987 Rugby World Cup

The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby Union World Cup.

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2008 Rugby League World Cup

The 2008 Rugby League World Cup was the thirteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup since its inauguration in 1954, and the first since the 2000 tournament.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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2013 Rugby League World Cup

The 2013 Rugby League World Cup was the fourteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and took place in England, Wales, France and Ireland.

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2014 Women's Rugby World Cup

The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe.

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2015 Rugby World Cup

The 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship.

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References

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