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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.
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