The origins of Rugby Football are inextricably linked with the history of football more generally. Although the modern game of Rugby Union is almost unrecognisable from its early counterparts, some of ...

Carolyn Krause brings us a two-part series on Historic Rugby, the utopian community originally built in 1880 for more than 300 British immigrants and Americans in the wilderness of East Tennessee’s ...

A slant of late afternoon light falls across the stacks at the Thomas Hughes Free Public Library, illuminating the elaborate gold-leaf lettering on the book spines in the Victorian collection. Among ...

While football flounders in an ethical mire, a sibling game—one with origins in the same medieval brawls over a pig’s bladder—is poised to enter the big leagues of American sport. Outside North ...

For the first time since 2007, the UC Santa Cruz Women’s Rugby Football Club finished their season in second place at the Pacific Western Championship match. Their 2022 season came full circle, ...

David beating Goliath, certainly. But that’s not all. There can be—and have been—shocks within games between sides of equal standing, too. One side can seem so superior both before kick-off and most ...

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Boston, who finished his career with a British record of 571 tries, was honored Tuesday in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. By Hannah Ziegler Billy Boston, the retired Welsh rugby star who was ...

Looked upon by forwards worldwide as the glamour boys of rugby union, it’s hard to ignore the fact that wingers tend to be the ones on the end of scoring matters. Raking in the adoration of the masses ...