Rugby is a ball game played by 13 ([[rugby league]]) or 15 (rugby union) players over two halves of 40 minutes.
Rugby is a ball game played by 13 ([[rugby league]]) or 15 (rugby union) players over two halves of 40 minutes.
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[[American Football]] derives from rugby, which itself evolved out of many ancient and prehistoric ball games.
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[[American Football]] derives from rugby, which itself evolved out of many ancient and prehistoric ball games. Rugby however, is a genuine sport, not a group of setpieces chucked together to allow a group of cushion wearing nonces with zero IQ to coast their way through the higher education system without lifting an intellectual finger.