The history of the rugby

The history of the rugby begins officially in 1823, by an action of a sixteen-year-old student: William Webb Ellis, on the ground of a town situated between Oxford and Cambridge. The football of Rugby was born. The first rules are established in the 1840s and the sport extends in United Kingdom in the decades which follow. The football and the rugby adopt however their essential differences between game(set) in the foot and in the hand only in 1863. Unions, of Rugby Union in the IRB, will develop the rules of the rugby towards those whom we follow today, while keeping(preserving) the amateurism as the essential value of the rugby in 15