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'''Rugby Football''', or more commonly "Rugby", is a team ball game that originated at the English public school of the same name.  

'''Rugby Football''', or more commonly "Rugby", is a team ball game that originated at the English public school of the same name.  

It was suggested in the 1890s that rugby was invented during a game of Association Football ([[soccer]]) when one of the pupils, [[William Webb Ellis]] foresook the laws of the game and picked up the ball and ran. This is highly questionable and is now regarded as a myth. The game of soccer was not codified until the 1860s and handling of the ball was commonly allowed in the game during the early nineteen centuary, furthermore the idea that it would have been considered a new set of rules rather than a simple cheat seems far fetched. Webb Ellis himself is nto recorded to have made any mention of inventing a new game, and the first time he is credited with the game is some period following his death.

It was suggested in the 1890s that rugby was invented during a game of Association Football ([[soccer]]) when one of the pupils, [[William Webb Ellis]] foresook the laws of the game and picked up the ball and ran. This is highly questionable and is now regarded as a myth. The game of soccer was not codified until the 1860s and handling of the ball was commonly allowed in the game during the early nineteen centuary, furthermore the idea that it would have been considered a new set of rules rather than a simple cheat seems far fetched. Webb Ellis himself is nto recorded to have made any mention of inventing a new game, and the first time he is credited with the game is some period following his death.