History Of Rugby 3 Start back history of rugby 2 history of rugby 3 WW After the olympic Games inSydney 2000, Italia joined involves the three maybe strongest rugby nations of http://www.rugby-karlsruhe.de/geschichte/rugby.3.asp
Extractions: Contests German championships take place anually since 1948 - since 1957 under the title "Deutscher Meister" (German Master). The first German championship took place in 1909 and has been repeated yearly until 1943 (with the exception of 1915-19). A "Five Nations" tournament is being held since 1910 (formerly as "Four Nations", without France) between England Ireland Scotland Wales and France . After the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000, Italia joined the club, thus extending it to a "Six-Nations-Tournament". For some time, there is a "Southern Hemisphere version" that involves the three maybe strongest Rugby nations of the world (Tri Nations) Australia New Zeeland and South Africa . Besides of that, these three nations also battle out a winner in the so-called "Super-12's", in which provincial teams (five from New Zeeland, three from Australia, and four from South Africa) play one against the other, including half finals and finals. These two tournaments also take place anually. European championships are being held without the English-speaking nations in A- and B-groups with possible relegation and delegation.
History Of Rugby I am particularly interested in the history of the game in countries such as Australia,New Zealand, South Africa as well rugby made its olympic debut in http://www.bocaratonrugby.com/rugby_education/history_of_rugby.htm
Extractions: History Of Rugby Foreword: I sourced the following information from many books and other documents I have collected over the years. I also researched the early years of rugby during visits to Rugby school, The Gilbert Museum and the RFU museum at Twickenham and I thank those organizations in particular for their kind assistance and would encourage anyone who has the opportunity, to visit them. You will also find special mention to Rugby in my home town of Bedford, England. I am sure that some may wish to provide additional material to include here. I am particularly interested in the history of the game in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa as well as European and South American countries. Please provide a reference with any material you send so I can verify its accuracy. Origins of Rugby: Many believe that rugby was born in 1823 when William Webb Ellis "with fine disregard for the rules of football (soccer) as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game". Although it is worth pointing out that there is little in the way of evidence to substantiate this view it is widely believed. The game of football as played at Rugby School (Rugby, England) between 1750 and 1823 permitted handling of the ball, but no-one was allowed to run with it in their hands towards the oppositions goal. There was no fixed limit to the number of players per side and sometimes there were hundreds taking part in a kind of enormous rolling maul. William Webb Ellis's innovation of running with the ball was probably met by vigorous retribution at the time but by 1830 Jem Mackie, with his powerful running, made it an acceptable part of the game.
Australian History. Thomas Dooker Kicks First Rugby League Goal The first part to be finished was the olympic pool and was in use by the public fromthe start. Next was the Track and Field section. FIRST rugby LEAGUE GAMES. http://greatlakeshistorical.museum.com/dooker.html
Extractions: Select RWC 2003 Six Nations 2003 Euro Cups 02-03 Super 12 2003 World Cup 2003 Eng Prem '02-03 Celtic Lge '02-03 Welsh Prem '02-03 Powergen '02-03 IRB Sevens Tri-Nations 2002 NPC 2002 Currie Cup 2002 SCRUM ARCHIVE World Cup 99 Tri-Nations 2001 Tri-Nations 2000 SixNations 2002 Six Nations 2001 Six Nations 2000 Five Nations 1999 Epson Cup 2000 Euro Cups '01-02 Euro Cups '00-01 Super 12 2002 Super 12 2001 Super 12 2000 Welsh/Scot '01-02 Student Rugby Barbarians 2001 Whilst covering the olympics for the BBC John Inverdale will be continuing his column, bringing our readers an insight into the greatest show on earth. Defeat must inspire an Olympic return 25 September 2000 Old Rudyard knew a thing or two. All that stuff about triumph and disaster. But it's a lot easier said than done. After a morning watching Steve Redgrave and the boys win the coxless four in such dramatic circumstances and Britain's finest Olympian row off into the sunset to an almost certain knighthood in the next honour's list, my abiding memory on the journey home was not of glory and victory but of despair and defeat.
History Main thing in life is not conquering, but fighting well. In 1900, three teams wereentered in the olympic rugby tournament Germany, Britain and hosts France. http://www.rugbyreview.com.au/news/009.html
History Main I should say that, I'm writing to you with the humble request that you considerincluding rugby union as a medal sport in time for the Sydney olympic Games. http://www.rugbyreview.com.au/news/005.html
Extractions: True, it's unlikely that the next time you come you'll have swooning hand-maidens scattering rose-petals before your every step - the way it was when we were still trying to schmooooooooooze you into giving us the big nod - but we will still observe the basic form of being appreciative little Vegemites anyway. Simply because we are, no kidding.
Extractions: To the pleasure of all those sports that are thoroughly swamped by football year in, year out, the beautiful game's vast popularity beyond the Olympiad has not translated to popularity within it and many a match at the Olympic Games, though not the final, is played to audiences of several hundred. In Sydney there are, however, 1.6 million tickets on sale because of the size of football stadiums compared with the venues of other sports. If sold, they would make football the most watched sport. The introduction of a women's event at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, and the fact that the title was won by the US, helped to generate a little more interest but only the stars of World Cup football could really turn the spotlight on the game when it becomes the first sport to be played at Sydney. Football is the only sport at the Games that will played outside Sydney, with matches scheduled for Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne, as well as the host city.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS Golf also has a long history, as it origins can be made entreaties to be returnedto the olympic programme rugby rugby football is one of the earliest forms of http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/past/index_uk.asp
Extractions: Tug-of-war was on the Olympic programme in 1900, 1904, 1906 (Intercalated Games), 1908, 1912 and 1920. Tug-of-war was always contested as a part of the track and field athletics programme, although it is now considered a separate sport. The Olympic champions were as follows: 1900: a combined Swedish/Danish team; 1904: an American club team representing the Milwaukee Athletic Club; 1906: Germany/Switzerland; 1908: a British team from the City of London Police Club; 1912: Sweden; and 1920: Great Britain. Golf has been on the Olympic programme twice, in 1900 and 1904. There were two golf events in 1900 - one for gentlemen and one for ladies. Golf is one of the world's most popular sports, being played in well over 100 nations world-wide. Golf also has a long history, as it origins can be traced back several centuries, and it has had organised international competitions since the mid-19th century. In the last decade golf has made entreaties to be returned to the Olympic programme. Rugby football is one of the earliest forms of football in which the ball is carried rather than kicked. It developed in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. Originally, rugby league was considered the professional sport and rugby union the amateur one, but in 1995 the International Rugby Board made rugby union an open sport, allowing professional competition. Rugby union football was held at the Olympics in 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS Tug of war, rugby, polo, lacrosse, and golf were once on the olympic programme. atthese sports and discover others that have become a part of olympic history. http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/index_uk.asp
DJournalist- Trinidad And Tobago-Olympic History 1 of mostly African countries due to the presence of New Zealand, whose rugby teamhad toured South Africa. In spite of this, the olympic spirit persevered and http://djournalist.tripod.com/olympichistory.htm
Extractions: FIFTY YEARS HAVE PASSED since Trinidad and Tobago began its Olympic journey. A half century since a team of three athletes travelled to the 1948 games in London with the aim of attaining glory for a small British colony. With the exception of 1960, the last five decades have seen this nation represented in 12 Olympiads with a total of 90 athletes in eight different disciplines: badminton, boxing, cycling, shooting, swimming, track and field, weightlifting and yachting. It wasn't until the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo that Trinidad and Tobago returned to the fold as an independent nation with a team of ten competitors. It was on the athletic track that the greatest prosperity was attained. Edwin Roberts, an outstanding collegian with the University of North Carolina, made it to the final of the 200m where he earned a bronze medal. The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich saw two important records being established. Trinidad and Tobago fielded its largest ever contingent of 20 athletes, among whom a female sprinter, Laura Pierre was included for the first time. Once again, the top performances came on the athletic track.
Melbourne Storm Victorian public who were not used to rugby league's mid the least successful inthe Storm's history, missing the a decision to move base from olympic Park to http://rl1908.com/Clubs/Melbourne-Storm.htm
Extractions: The spread of the rugby game throughout the 19th century finally reached Victoria in 1888 when teams from North Melbourne and Melbourne met. The match was held in the lead up to the visit of Stoddart's English rugby team to Melbourne during their Australian tour. Stoddart's team ended up playing more Victorian Rules games than rugby while in the state, winning more than half their games. The English played Carlton at the MCG in front of 25,000 and also against South Melbourne, Fitzroy, Essendon and Port Melbourne. Victoria sent its first rugby team to Sydney to play NSW in 1889. The Victorian captain F.L. Scarborough, speaking at Sydney dinner for his team, said: "I regret to say there is not a single native-born Victorian in the team." Ironically, 108 or so years later similar words were spoken about the first Melbourne rugby league club in the NRL. NSW and Victoria paid visits to each other in 1894 and 1895, with the VIctorians winning the first game. Great Britain played against Victoria on their 1899 tour, but the rugby game then withered and disappeared.
Taralga Rugby Union Club - Club History Club history rugby Union was first established in Taralga 1886 as nothing tends tomake the rugby game more the match against Taralga on the olympic ground on http://taralgarugby.rugbynet.com.au/generic.asp?page=848
Journal Of Olympic History Magazine Index rugby Football at the olympic Games, Ian Buchanan,12 14, http//www.aafla.org FurtherThoughts on Some Issues of Early olympic history, David C. Young, 29 - 41, http://www.aafla.org/index/JOHIndex.html
Extractions: AAF Home All AAF Journals Search Page Journal of Olympic History (formerly Citius, Altius, Fortius) Index 1992-1999 Volume 1 No 1 Table of Contents, 2 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1a.pdf Honorary President's Message: Praise to The Olympic Athletes,Erich Kamper, 3 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1b.pdf President's Inaugural Message,Ian Buchanan, 4 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1c.pdf Message from the Secretary-General,Bill Mallon, 5 - 6 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1d.pdf Baseball in the Olympics, Pete Cava, 7 - 15 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1e.pdf A Look at Olympic Costs, C. Frank Zarnowski,16 - 32 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf Olympic Ice Hockey - Goal Scoring Records, 33 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1g.pdf Work in Progress, 34 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1h.pdf Book Reviews, 35 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1i.pdf ISOH Members Biographies, 35 http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1j.pdf
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Topics In Sport - History & Sociology olympic Review, Olympika, Journal of olympic history, Journal of Links Links to majorsports history associations. SPORTS RL1908 The rugby League Hall of Fame. http://www.ausport.gov.au/info/history.htm
Australian Sports Commission Board earlier careers as a schoolteacher and the coach of a leading rugby league team ratedas one of the greatest male swimmers in Australian olympic history, he is http://www.ausport.gov.au/asc/board.htm
Extractions: Mr Peter Bartels (Chairman) FAISM, FRS Peter was formerly a chief executive officer and managing director of a number of leading public companies. He is currently a director of the Melbourne Business School and chairman of the Central City Studios Pty Ltd. Mr Alan Jones AM (Deputy Chairman) BA, AEd (Qld), SDES (Oxon) Mr Alan Jones AM (Deputy Chairman) BA, AEd (Qld), SDES (Oxon) A public speaker of wide acclaim, Alan is a current affairs commentator and host presenter for national breakfast radio and television programs. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to the radio industry. Alan has a long association with sport as a former Australian rugby coach and rugby league coach of Balmain and South Sydney. Mr Roy. J Masters
BlackStump Sports The olympic Movement IOC Home Page; Ancient olympics; FINA; Athletes Honda SportTouring Association; HSV history Site; Australian National Drag Racing rugby. http://www.blackstump.com.au/sportsf3.htm
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Springfield Rugby Football Club of having won the only rugby championships at the olympic Games in 1920 and rugbyHOTLINE 417875-6474 Home Schedule News history Roster Reports http://www.springfieldrugby.com/origins.html
Extractions: Rugby football began as a game played at Rugby School, England. In 1800 it was still informal and unorganised where violence and physical force were tolerated. These early rules were few and variable and it was often hard to tell the difference between players and spectators. Furthermore there was little attempt to make games 'fair' or sides 'equal'. A century later Rugby Football was a modern sport and just like other sports it had developed its own distinctive terminology , written laws and national organisations throughout the world including the USA . Play was specialised and scientific with records being kept of team and player performance. Rugby had developed many distinctive features - running with the ball , H-shaped goal posts, the try at goal , an oval ball, and rugby dress such as jerseys and caps . In the space of 100 years a playground game had become an institution and the object of the game had been established.
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IOA - 7th International Postgraduate Seminar On Olympic Studies The second section of this paper simply elaborates on the short history of rugbyin the However, rugby appeared in only three more olympic games (London http://www.geocities.com/olympic_seminar7/summary/sread.htm
Extractions: USA Summary The game of Rugby Football is popular with both players and fans worldwide. The governing body of rugby, The International Rugby Board (IRB), has nearly 100 member countries including the populous Peoples Republic of China. The global popularity of the game has made the Rugby World Cup the fourth largest sporting event in the world just behind the Olympics. Most people do not realize that the history of the Olympics and that of rugby have overlapped in action and ideology. This paper argues that by precedents and principles, rugby would be an ideal addition to the contemporary Olympics. The fist section of this paper discusses the development of Rugby Football. It can be argued that most cultures had some form of ballgame in their history. The Greeks had episkyros and the Romans had harpastum . The origins of football games, which include both rugby and soccer, can be traced back to traditional folk games of pre-Industrial England. The development of rugby can be divided into five overlapping stages, from the 14
