Word Finder - rugby

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(usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.

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The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.

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A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.

After being privately educated by his mother and tutors, he entered Rugby school in 1841.

He took solace in the arms of rugby players.

The weight and speed of goods trains vary enormously according to local conditions, but the following figures, which refer to traffic on the London & North-Western railway between London and Rugby, may be taken as representative of good English practice.

Its early course is southwesterly to Rugby, thereafter it runs west and south-west to Warwick, receiving the Leam on the east.

The total fall of the river is about Soo ft.; from Rugby about 230 ft., and from Warwick 120 ft.

He was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1854.

Rugby football is upheld by such notable teams as Blackheath and Richmond.

In 1860 he was ordained, and went to Rugby as an assistant master.

He was educated at Rugby and Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1870 entered the Foreign Office, where he was for some time assistant private secretary to Lord Granville.

Our aim is to build on our successes and become the regions premier rugby club.

His education was conducted entirely at home until, at the age of fourteen, he entered Rugby, where he remained five years.

From Rugby he went to be first headmaster of Wellington College, which was opened in January 1859; and in the course of the same year he married his cousin, Mary'Sidgwick.

He then accepted a school-inspectorship, which he held until he went to Rugby in 1858.

In 1869 Mr Gladstone offered him the deanery of Durham, but this he declined on the ground of his strong interest in Rugby.

He was educated at Rugby and at Winchester, and in 1830 went into residence in the university of Oxford as a scholar of Trinity College.

The influence of the revival extended to many other schools, such as Christ's Hospital (1552), Westminster (1560), and Merchant Taylors' (1561); Repton (1 557), Rugby (1567) and Harrow (1571).

The range of studies was widened, however, at Rugby in 1828-1842 by Thomas Arnold, whose interest in ancient history and geography, as a necessary part of classical learning, is attested by his edition of Thucydides; while his influence was still further extended when those who had been trained in his traditions became head masters of other schools.

In 1887 he became headmaster of Rugby, and in 1895 was appointed to the bishopric of Hereford.

He was educated at Rugby under Arnold, and in 1834 went up to Balliol College, Oxford.

After receiving his early education in Paris, he was sent to Rugby, and thence proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second classic and chancellor's medallist, and rowed for the university in the winning boat against Oxford.

He had married Catharine Spooner at Rugby in 1843; in the spring of 1856, within five weeks, five of their children were carried off by virulent scarlet fever.

He had been brought up in the strictest principles of the Evangelical school, but at Rugby he fell under the influence of Arnold and Tait, and his acquaintance with Maurice and Kingsley finally gave his opinions a direction towards Liberalism.

Bath, Gloucester, Oxford, Northampton, Bedford, Rugby, Lincoln and Scarborough are amongst the chief.

In 1849 he wrote a preface to a new edition of Clarkson's Life of William Penn, defending the Quaker statesman against Macaulay's criticisms. In 1850 he married Jane Martha, eldest daughter of the famous Dr Arnold of Rugby.

After receiving his early education at Rugby and King's College, London, he went up to Oxford, where he was generally regarded as the most brilliant of an exceptionally able set, and in 1854 obtained a fellowship at Oriel College.

After being for many years a master at Rugby, he became in 1882 fellow and tutor of Corpus, Oxford; and from 1894 to 1906 was Reader in Greek in the university.

Added to that, the club is still rocking under fan boycotts and general consternation over the proposed merger and name change to Rugby Town.

Nearby, we have access to football, hockey, lacrosse and rugby pitches, and share an excellent boathouse on the river.

According to the Sunday Mirror, Charlotte Church has had a blazing row with her rugby star boyfriend Gavin Henson over his late-night partying.

Meet at the Reynolds building at 6.15 to catch the rugby bus.

Rugby Information about local rugby clubs can be found in our Sports Directory.

Surrounding the Center are playing fields for football, rugby, cricket and hockey; floodlit tennis courts and a synthetic turf pitch.

The English rugby team has been given a special one-year dispensation.

So how to explain the enigma of French rugby?

This is a perfect gift for Rugby fans of all ages.

Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884, educated at Rugby and became a passionate fisherman from a very young age.

Rugby took a customary and somewhat fortuitous early lead after thirteen minutes.

However, in his spare time he plays either hooker or flanker for his favorite local rugby team, Burnham United.

Rugby Town suffered their first away defeat of the season at the hands of promotion hopefuls Halesowen Town.

As well as an excellent horseman he was a keen rugby player; he also started writing poetry in his teens.

Warning Of Bogus Workmen, Rugby 06/05/2006 Police remind householders to always check the credentials of people calling at their home to undertake work.

An unusual offer to help Bedford Rugby Club has come from, guess what, a stage hypnotist.

He was the Academy's most capped Scottish Rugby internationalist and the outstanding Scottish player of the post-war years.

Playing a great deal of flowing attacking rugby in what were dreadful conditions, Ashton's side looked simply irresistible.

Wales Rugby Union 125th Anniversary Away Shirt Supporters replica jersey.

More specialist activities that club members have been involved with, include judo, Gymnastics and Tag Rugby.

An option has emerged that may allow the sport of professional Rugby league to continue in the North-East.

You see to some a man must look like a Rugby Player or WWE Wrestler with huge muscles to be really manly.

He also played rugby union for Rochdale until he suffered a heart attack at 45 and never married, citing rugby as his wife.

However, Connolly believes that the whole Bath Rugby squad have the mettle to turn things around.