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Rugby is a ball game played by 13 (rugby league) or 15 (rugby union) players over two halves of 40 minutes.

American Football derives from rugby, which itself evolved out of many ancient and prehistoric ball games.

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	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.

−	[[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.	+	[[American Football]] derives from rugby, which itself evolved out of many ancient and prehistoric ball games.