Rugby Rules and Descriptions

 Rugby Rules and Descriptions

A sport that scores points by taking the ball to the opponent's position in time or kicking the ball over the goal post.

It is very intense due to free physical contact, and it is one of the most extreme sports because there are frequent attempts to tackle, catch, and knock down a player with a ball.

You can run with the ball in your hand, and the ball's forward pass is prohibited. 

If the teammate of the player with the ball is in front of him, the offside is declared. 

In the end, the only way the ball can move forward is to hold the ball and sprint forward, which is the essence of rugby, which reveals the instinct of human sprinting. 

He usually runs in his arms, but it is not prohibited to run forward while kicking a soccer ball like dribbling. 

However, due to the nature of the oval rugby ball, dribbling is very difficult, so I just don't try it often. 

Instead, a forward pass using a kick in the air or a forward pass using a ground ball using the characteristics of an oval rugby ball to make a bound is often used.

There are four ways to score.

Try (5 points): Go to the In-goal Area outside the goal line and hit the ball on the ground. Unlike American football's touchdown, the ball must touch the floor directly.

Drop goal (3 points): Kick the ball once to the ground (drop kick) and cross the crossbar in the middle of the H-goal post.

Penalty goal (3 points): There are many options when the opponent is penalized for fouling, of which the ball is kicked like a free kick of football in the area where the penalty occurs and crossed the crossbar between the goal posts

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Conversion goal (2 points): Additional scoring opportunities on successful try. At one point, fix the ball at the desired point on the line parallel to the sideline, and then cross the middle crossbar between the goal posts.

Rugby Football is known to have originated from the Rugby School, a famous private school in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, England, and is named after the school. 

In 1823, during a football game at the rugby school, a boy named William Webb Ellis broke the rules in football, which was then allowed to catch the ball, and began running toward the opposing team's goal line. The essence of rugby, "Holding the ball by hand and sprinting forward, breaks through the goal line," originated from the boy's unexpected behavior, which was commemorated by naming the Rugby World Cup trophy. 

The winner of the Rugby World Cup will therefore receive the Webb Ellis Cup, named after him, as a trophy.

Running with a ball in hand became common in rugby schools in the 1830s, and rugby football became popular throughout England in the 1850s and 1860s. In particular, in 1845, the Rugby School's general meeting of students first established a football rule called "Rugby Football" by three students. Therefore, the rules were officially established before rugby played soccer.

In England in the mid-19th century, only the types of football developed in public schools and with clear rules gained social recognition and only rugby football was able to spread out of their schools. Marlborough and Cheltenham rules were closely dependent on rugby matches.

The oldest existing rugby football club, Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' RFC rugby football club team, founded in 1843 by the staff of Guy's Hospital, and the Dublin University Football Club, founded in 1854, also adopted rugby school rules.

In the end, the FA formed a division between "soccer" and "rugby" by minimizing the use of hands and removing "hacking" from the rules. "Hacking is an essential element of football," said F.W. Campbell, the Blackheath Club representative founded by rugby school graduates who attended the meeting, and remained steadfast in his position that banning football from kicking would destroy the essence of football. He also considered courage to jump into physical danger to be the most essential element of England's gentlemanly virtue. As a result of the anti-hacking rule-making vote, Campbell withdrew from the FA, and other rugby football clubs did not follow suit to join the Football Association.

On December 4, 870 Edwin Ash of Richmond and Benjamin Burns of Blackheath published a letter in the Times suggesting that "every rugby club has different rules, so people who play rugby form must meet to make a practice code," and eventually, on January 26, 1871, representatives of 21 clubs formed a rugby union at London's Ball Club. On 27 March 1871, the world's first international rugby match between England and Scotland was held at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh, and the following year, the first "The Varsity Match" was held between the prestigious English universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

In addition, a rugby match between the Royal Navy and the Royal Navy is held annually in England, starting with the first rugby match between British and Royal Navy officers at the London Oval on 13 February 1878, and has been an annual match since 1907. The game is also played at Twickenham Stadium.

According to the Times, rugby union matches attracted twice as many players as the Association Football until 1880. That's not just true of the gentlemen's teams in the south, it's also true of the increasing number of Northern Workers' Clubs. For example, in Manchester and Liverpool, it was almost entirely rugby. Even in 1866, FA membership was only 10 clubs. The problem is that as we entered the 20th century, the gap between the two sports began to widen. The key was the application of amateurism.

With the FA at the center, soccer allowed professionalism to pay wages to workers in a club team created by factory workers. On the other hand, the Rugby Football Union did not allow this, and it stipulated that players working in the factory to strictly protect amateurism would not be compensated with wages as much as the time they sacrificed for rugby games and training.

Eventually, in 1895, the conflict between professionalism and amateurism led to a great division of rugby football. In response to the Rugby Football Union, which had been strictly adhering to amateurism over the payment of "Broken time pay," the current Rugby Football League, which was called "Northern Rugby Football Union," was formed in northern England, where there was a relatively large working class.

Since then, rugby union has been strictly adhering to amateurism until 1995, but only in 1995 did it shift to professionalism. Rugby unions are mostly popular and popular, but most of the countries where rugby unions are popular also have rugby leagues active. And rugby generally refers to rugby union, and rugby league is called rugby league or league.

Rugby football started with a change in the rules from the initial football prototype, and it is also famous that this football prototype and rugby have been transformed into various sports. First of all, it is Gaelic Football, an Irish national sport, that the original football entered Ireland and the rules were changed and settled, and it is Australian football, so-called Aussie Football, that has been transformed in Australia. This time, rugby crossed the Atlantic Ocean and transformed into American football and Canadian football, respectively. In addition, the current water polo, which was called Water Rugby in Scotland in the 19th century, is called underwater rugby. As if proving the maxim that tangerines become tangja when they exceed the number of times, it is the derivatives of football prototype and rugby that have completely differentiated themselves in their own way while crossing the country and continent.