Rugby

No its not allowed at this time under IRB rules. However, tattoos are allowed

Union

30 players (15 on the pitch for each team at a time)

plus

2 linesmen (referees assistants)

1 referee

There are a maximum of 5 substitutes for each team

Rugby used to be an Olympic sport, and featured at the 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924 games. It was then dropped. This probably had something to do with the head of the International Olympic Committee stepping down in 1925- Pierre de Coubertin had been huegly influential in having rugby included to start with.

No sport can be added to the Olympics unless another sport is dropped. The IRB was confident that its proposal to have sevens included in the 2012 Olympics would be successful. Sevens was one of five sports proposed, but of the five only two (squash and karate) were successful.

You use a rugby ball to play rugby. It is shaped like an egg.

A yellow card is a 10 minute "sin bin" offence and the receiving player must leave the field for that time -- a second yellow card t the same player means that a red card is immediately shown and the player is sent of for the remainder of the game with no substitution

Rugby actually preceded games which use some of the principles such as American football Gaelic football.

There are two related types of Rugby. Rugby League and Rugby Union.

Because they had wing forward now called flankers and then had to distinguish the backs by calling them wing three quarters as the were in the three quarter position i..e Scrum half and Outside haf are called "Half Backs" and the full back is "full back" the centres were classed as three quarter back.

FRANCE, IRELAND, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND. WALES, ITALY, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, NETHERLANDS, LITHUANIA, POLAND, BELGIUM, MOLDOVA, CROATIA, SWEDEN, LATVIA, SWITZERLAND, SERBIA, SLOVENIA, HUNGARY, DENMARK, NORWAY,

AUSTRIA, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, LUXEMBOURG, FINLAND, ROMANIA, GEORGIA

Are all registered with the IRB

he has blue eyes

In rugby, during the 6 Nations, an England v Ireland match is always played for the Millennium Trophy. Depending on the circumstances, they could be playing for the Triple Crown or the Six Nations Championship itself. If they were to meet in the World Cup, they could be playing for the Webb Ellis Trophy.

15 on each team. Equalling 30 on the field. Plus subs, a full squad = 22.

probably around 50 000 000 in the whole of rugby, but in a single team, 15 players.
There may be only 15 players perside on the field of play as a maximum at anyone time in the union code

It cost 60,000,000 NZ Dollars of combined private and Government funding

They play both. Its dependant on the location and the type of club in their locality but both codes run excellent mini and youth programme

Whilst the concept was started in Rugby School Warwickshire, England in 1823 by Webb Ellis creation of rugby proper came in late 1870, when the Secretary of Richmond FC proposed a meeting to codify a separate set of rules for the Rugby clubs. This took place shortly after on January 26th 1871. So up to 2011 its been formally a game for 140 years. Prior to this it was actually football (the predecessor of Association Football or Soccer)

yes rugby league is played in and around the city of cape town. it is also played at junior level, from under 9 years old, it is open to all the communities and schools in the cape, incidently cape town are undefeated at senior level by any south African opposition, and have only ever been beaten on one occasion, by north sydney bears in 1993 by a score of 48 pts to 6. the game there, is run entirely on a self supporting and autonomous basis, and has, for unknown reasons, been completey ignored by the UK Australian and other world rugby league governing bodies, who refuse to recognise cape town RL, the provincial side are known as the cape cobras, and over the years have produced jamie bloem, Jacob steemag, bradley green, and marius swartz. they are coached by yorkshireman 'big' martin Birmingham and have been since 1991, Birmingham is also the regional development officer, the potential of RL in the cape is considered to be massive by even the SARU.

Rugby Football was introduced to New Zealand by Charles John Monro in early 1870; Monro discovered the sport while completing his studies at Christ's College, Finchley near London in England.[6] The first game in New Zealand took place on Saturday 14 May 1870 in Nelson between the Nelson Football Club and the local Nelson College, coached by Monro and its then Principal, an Rugby School oldboy, Rev. Francis Simmons, which game Nelson FC won 2 goals to nil. The first interclub game occured 4 months later, when Monro was in Wellington and received a challenge from his Nelson clubmates to organise a game there. Monro not only selected and coached the Wellington team, then on 12 September 1870, in a rough paddock at Petone, he played for Nelson while also refereing the game. Before this game, Nelson had become NZ's first Rugby Football Club in NZ and next Wellington Rugby Football Club formed in April 1871. This led to the Wellington v Nelson game becaming an annual feature alternating between cities. The first interprovincial game took place in Dunedin in September 1875 between the combined Auckland Clubs v Dunedin Clubs. In 1879, the first Provincial Unions were formed in Wellington and Canterbury[7] and the NZRFU was formed in 1892. In 1882, New Zealand's first internationals were played when the Southern Rugby Union (later the New South Wales Rugby Union) from Australia toured NZ which tour was returned by NZ in 1884. An 1888-89 NZ "Natives" team toured NZ, Australia and the UK, playing 107 games, greatly lifting NZ's rugby's profile and laying the foundation for future All Black tours. NZ played its first international rugby Test v Australia in Sydney in August 1903, winning 22-3 then its first Test at home v Great Britain in Wellington, winning 9-3, in a match watched by CJ Monro and 39,000 enthusiastic NZrs. in 1905-06, NZ undertook its first official overseas tour of the UK, France and America, winning 34 of 35 games. Still seen as the most important in NZ rugby history, this "Originals" 1905 tour gave birth the name of the NZ rugby tean as the "All Blacks". Such was the strength and skill of the NZ rugby that they did not lose a home Test until 1913, losing 5-16 to Australia in Christchurch.

The name "All Blacks was coined by a Devon (UK) reporter in the 1905 tour who in his description refered to the team as "The all blacks". The name was continually used across the UK tour by other reporters. The name refelected the new strip as prior to this it was a navy top and white knee length shorts.

27 cm (11 in) long and 60 cm (24 in) in circumference

Six tries is the record in one six nations campaign held jointly by Williams of Wales and Greenwood of England.

Chris Ashton of England has equalled that record with just two games gone in the current six nations (2011) looks likely he will hold that outright by the end of the tournament.

Habana is the fastest, considering his weight and height.

Rugby is a sexy rough sport, so girls love rugby players (especially when they have all their teeth)

The tape you see a lot of rugby players wearing, singularly wrapped without going further up the hand/thumb for support, is normally just added as a preventative measure following a previous wrist strain. Once strained, the wrist area can be prone to being strained again, particularly under the high stress/impact it is put under in rugby.

rugby union was invented in 1823 by a 16 year old boy, William webb Ellis. He was playing a game of soccer when he suddenly picked up the ball and ran towards the opponets goal and that's how it formed.

The most caped Welsh Footballer is Ryan Giggs.