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'''Rugby School''' is a major public school (the equivalent of a private schhol in the US) in the town of [[Rugby, Warwickshire]], central [[England]]. It has three claims to fame: Thomas Arnold, its headmaster from 1828 to 1841, was the architect of the [[Victorian]] public school, with its emphasis on [[muscular Christianity]], sporting effort and the study of the classics; Arnold's reforms inspired the famous novel by Thomas Hughes, ''[[Tom Brown's Schooldays]]''; and the sport of [[Rugby Union]] was named after the school, having supposedly been invented by a scholar named William Webb-Ellis, who, according to legend, while playing [[football]], picked the ball up and ran with it.