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Rugby|ˈrʌgbɪ|
Also with lower-case initial.
a. The name of the public school at Rugby in Warwickshire, used attrib. or absol. to designate one of the leading forms of the game of football, played with an oval ball which may be kicked or handled: points are obtained by scoring tries and kicking goals (see quot. 1975). Also Comb., as Rugby League, an association of Rugby football clubs formed in 1922 (previously the ‘Northern Union’), having rules differing from those of the Rugby Union; Rugby played according to these rules; rugby tackle, a tackle in which the arms are used to bring an opposing player down, as in Rugby football; Rugby Union, an association of Rugby football clubs formed in 1871; Rugby played according to its rules.
1864Field 446/2 The Rugby Game. Will a good Rugby authority settle the following points in their game? 1871Field 22 July 82/2 (heading) The Rugby Union. A special general meeting of the Rugby Football Union will be held at the Arundel Hotel, Arundel Street, Strand, on Monday evening. 1874G. H. West Rugby Union Football Ann. 2 The following clubs have now enrolled themselves under the Rugby Union. Ibid. 11 Since the formation of the Rugby Union, the rules of football have been somewhat modified and altered... A few hints, therefore, on the general style of play in the Rugby Union game, and also an explanation of those rules which most affect it may not be out of place. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 367/2 The tumbles and scrimmages incidental to the Rugby code. 1885[see association 11]. 1897Mrs. Rayner Type-writer Girl iii. 31 Their discourse..circled chiefly round the noble quadruped, with divergences on Rugby and Association football. 1906Gallaher & Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer xix. 265 There were fifty thousand people present—by far the biggest attendance of spectators we had ever seen at a Rugby match. 1923Whitaker's Almanack 474/2 Northern Union in 1921–22 This body is now called the Rugby League. 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 721/2 Rugby jerseys (to order only). 1929R. Harding Rugby 142 It was said that a certain Rugby League Club was prepared to give me {pstlg}750 to become a professional Rugby player. Ibid. 144 The system of professionalism which obtains in the Rugby League is the best. 1931R. Campbell Georgiad i. 18 Jack Squire..who..makes a funeral of a Rugby Match. 1959Times 21 Sept. 3/6 In this community of Rugby-minded souls every man..could readily appreciate the virtues of an attacking as against a defensive policy. 1959F. Guest Indian Cavalryman viii. 97 The subaltern, who was an athletic young man, immediately dived at the men in a Rugby tackle. 1960T. McLean Kings of Rugby viii. 57 His Rugby-playing days were over. 1961Times 7 Apr. 20/7 In the matter of crowd behaviour, in fact, the Rugby-watching public can in no way afford to be smug. 1963Listener 14 Feb. 300/1 David Storey's This Sporting Life is a bildungsroman of an unusual sort. Machin, its central character, is a miner turned Rugby League player. 1969[see league n.2 1 c]. 1969Listener 20 Mar. 384/3 The ‘sheer disorder’ of the broken field of your Rugby Union game. 1975Oxf. Illustr. Dict., Rugby football, one of the two main types of football (the other being Association football), played with 15 players a side (in Rugby Union) or 13 (in Rugby League), with an elliptical football punted, dropped, or passed from hand to hand, the object being to touch down behind the opponents' line and score a try, and to kick the ball over the crossbar of the H-shaped goal. 1976J. McClure Rogue Eagle ii. 30 Hulk's Airtex shirt and ridiculous rugby shorts. 1976Western Mail (Cardiff) 27 Nov., Mid-Wales Howells Cup first round rugby tie with Mid-Glamorgan..has been postponed. 1976Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 3/7 In the second half..Chester played some excellent rugby. 1978Rugby World Apr. 45 (Advt.), The original long playing records of Rugby Songs in the Jock Strapp Series. Ibid. 51 (Advt.), Top quality rugby jerseys.
b. Rugby fives, the leading form of fives: see fives2.
1897Encycl. Sport I. 398/2 In the Eton court..the presence of the pepper-box, the hole, and the step, make the game in practice as different from Rugby Fives as in theory it is similar. 1935Encycl. Sports 270/1 A Rugby fives court, called after the school of that name, is a covered four-walled building. The walls are all plain, except that on the front wall there is a ledge or board, above which the ball must be struck to be in play. 1958Times 16 Dec. 4/6 Old Oundelians..beat Rugby Fives Association..by 121 points to 70. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 870/1 Rugby fives is mainly a school, old boys', and university game. |