Rugby – An Amazing Sport

Source: epicoutput.com --- Sunday, April 30, 2017
The sport of Rugby is an amazing sport which is played by people all over the world. It is a very common sport of more than hundred countries and is widely played in UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, France, Argentina, Japan, USA, and many others. It is also referred to as the World’s first premiere football using oval ball. Rugby sport gets its name from the Rugby school in England and the game is supposed to have been started in the early 1820s and from there the contemporary form of the game has been formulated wherein it consists of two teams each having its own set of 15 players. The prime part of the game is that the ball of the game is not spherical but almost oval in shape and is quite pointed at the two edges. The game revolves around the point that both the teams need to score goals in the opposite team’s goal and the goal posts usually represent the ‘H’ letter. An area named as ‘in-goal’ is of great importance in this game. In rugby, if a team is able to reach the opposite team’s in-goal area then they score ‘try’ points for being able to achieve the result and in turn get the chance to score a goal too in the H lettered goal post of the opposite team. The only way by which the players can be stopped from scoring a goal, is by ‘tackling’ the players and by tackling what we mean is that the players can stop each other or even have the liberty to throw them on the ground. Usually, a game of rugby consists of two half ...

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