How To Use Rugby In A Sentence

It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
An eye-catching floral tribute to England rugby star Jonny Wilkinson helped Doncaster to shine in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition.
Professional rugby is a hard way to earn a crust - and an uncertain one.
Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite. Times, Sunday Times
There is no mid-season transfer window in rugby. Times, Sunday Times

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The story - probably apocryphal - is that William Webb Ellis at Rugby School in the nineteenth century picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it, inventing rugby.
In team sports such as wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball, your classification gives you points. The Sun
I found the final rather involving, which given that rugby is in essence a game of catch taken extremely seriously is not bad going at all.
There is an opportunity for rugby league to grab national attention over the coming four weeks. Times, Sunday Times
This makes him the most important coach in Scottish rugby bar one.
Thus it is hoped that the danger of player burnout is minimised and the integrity of international rugby can be restored. Times, Sunday Times
However, if you want a real game of the people, go and see some Rugby League.
Though a rugby career beckoned, he refused to abandon his education. Times, Sunday Times
Winnett, 54, of Cheam Road in Ewell, manages a rugby team in which Alcindor plays.
Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
This was rugby's musclebound equivalent of the raucous stag party. Times, Sunday Times
WALES came to a standstill yesterday for the biggest rugby match in the country's history. Times, Sunday Times
Both can turn that most tedious of old rugby clichés on its head; that forwards win matches and backs decide by how much. Times, Sunday Times
It is for logistical rather than symbolic reasons that we are meeting at Old Albanian rugby club in Hertfordshire rather than Twickenham, but it allows Steele to make the point that he hopes to nurture the grassroots as well as the elite game, especially the enthusiastic volunteers that sustain it. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
As if anyone gives a hoot in rugby about the long term. Times, Sunday Times
Edinburgh Rugby claim an average of 3,500 spectators for games this season, a fourfold increase from the previous year when they were known as the Edinburgh Reivers.
David Gorwood explained that the Rugby Football League had introduced a new rule which stated that clubs had to have two distinctive kits in different colours for home and away games.
Two flyhalves made indelible impressions in Sunday's Springbok rugby trials - one of them an Old Selbornian.
But I sure don't play rugby just for the money and if I was paid zilch I would still be the first one out at training.
His playing career was curtailed after he injured his neck when a scrum collapsed in 1980 but that did not end his involvement with rugby. Times, Sunday Times
He was joined immediately by a burly guy in a padded leather body warmer over a navy blue rugby shirt.
The only rugby that trio have played together so far has been on the training pitch. The Sun
He also found time to combine rugby with an army career. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not going to risk my neck playing rugby with you!
You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
There was a time when rugby greats earned their crusts in towns like this. Times, Sunday Times
And on television bulletins, viewers were first treated to how England rugby union had caned Canada which was about as exciting a tussle as Chelsea taking on Chertsey in football.
As far as the team is concerned, the experience and all-round rugby ability that he brings to the squad will be sadly missed.
Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.
But my point is, how many tickets do you need to flog to sell out a rugby ground - 10-15,000?
He will be missed by club and country but the rest of the rugby world will breathe a sigh of relief. Times, Sunday Times
It was famously sung in the trenches of the First World War by Welsh regiments to keep their spirits up, and it's a firm favourite with Welsh rugby crowds.
With no lineouts, no meaningful scrums and all players having to be greyhounds, it's a hybrid of rugby union.
A sweepstake was held among rugby scribes in Sydney for the final between Australia and some other mob, the money going to the correspondent predicting the correct score, or nearest.
After Stamp took an earbashing from the Rugby Park fans and a yellow card from Hugh Dallas for a crunching tackle on Peter Canero, Hearts made their second goal of the day.
Apparently he would watch any sport, however obscure, apart from rugby league, which he just could not stick.
However they are full of fond imaginings, for instance that rugby is the most popular sport in South Africa.
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Edwards explores how a single rugby match proved to be one of the most significant flashpoints in Welsh history.
Rugby is now more popular than football or volleyball. Times, Sunday Times
He said the club had considered the York City Knights when planning the event to avoid a clash with the rugby league club's big home game with Keighley.
A variety show was staged at York Rugby League Club's Wigginton Road ground.
Wales do not play an open style of rugby. Times, Sunday Times
The final play of rugby was breathtaking in its audacity.
It will be fantastic for the young kids in Keighley to see a local boy playing in rugby league's showpiece.
Rugby has become as important a feature to Bath as gladiatorial combat was to ancient Rome. Times, Sunday Times
He did a goodish job, too, until a serious injury put him out of rugby for a year.
Standing by are five sports that have been proposed as replacements - golf, sevens rugby, karate, roller sports and squash.
Kinnock fils, who is no mean performer on the rugby field, has developed a taste for academe.
The advocates of summer rugby will have loved it as the firm ground underfoot encouraged the two teams to play some terrific expansive rugby.
Voice over Colleagues from Tetbury Rugby were equally determined to win, despite Garry's absence.
Competition between the constituent nations of the United Kingdom got under way almost as soon as the sports of association and rugby football had their rules agreed.
The Leigh Centurions captain put eager children through their paces at rugby.
There is a paradox at the heart of their rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Even if you are in a contact sport like rugby, boxing or karate, you should know when your body needs a rest.
Christ Church has an interesting connection with Lang Park and rugby league… and even though the stadium completely overshadows the historic church the goodwill between the two remains very strong.
Bernard's exceptional rugby ability has not gone unnoticed and he has recently been invited to play rugby with Leinster.
As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
Our rugby has become so attritional it regularly makes you wince just watching it. The Sun
Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies. Important Notice!
For the pretty 23-year-old used to be a rugby league cheerleader and regularly performed on the pitch with pompoms at home and away matches.
Logan has had plenty of ups and downs in his rugby career.
It was a consummate display of rugby into a stiff wind.
And when rugby players misbehave it is apparently football's problem, too. Times, Sunday Times
It would be far too trite to say that rugby changed his life. Times, Sunday Times
The ‘Pay to Play’ weekend will involve rugby clubs donating money in whatever form they can - from win bonuses, a percentage of their match subs, or even a whip-round in the clubhouse after the match.
It was likely that the initial injury was the blunt trauma to the side of the neck after the rugby tackle. Times, Sunday Times
It was a shame that it clashed with the Wales - Ireland Six Nations rugby match, but looking back, people may have been better off watching the volleyball instead.
The Welsh rugby fan said he was delighted to meet Sir Clive Woodward, who was at the palace to receive his knighthood.
I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
One man who has known him since those earliest days is Joe Miles, a kenspeckle figure in Ulster rugby, who was chairman of the selectors when Humphreys was first picked to represent the province.
I picked up a brach from the rugby field and painted it in white. I'm a big fat liar
Doesn't mean it isn't an absolute stomper, though, or that rugby would be better off without it. Times, Sunday Times
Rugby union is one gigantic chain with one man's role integral to another. Times, Sunday Times
I do share the concern that the maul is a forgotten art in New Zealand rugby," said Henry. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Of course, there were objections to the amateur rule, and this caused a rift early in the sport's history, and a new breakaway sport was created in 1895, called Rugby League.
To some he was solid, reliable, well-intentioned and a rugby man to the tips of his bootlaces.
Mr Foxley said there were still some problems with organising the event including installing a set of rugby or American Football posts instead of the football goals.
From the kick-off both teams put on a display of stylish, exquisite rugby.
It is an instinctive split-second reaction to a fluid rugby situation. Times, Sunday Times
Beat that as an evocative name for a rugby club. Times, Sunday Times
The network is anteing up about 9 percent of its $85 million annual program budget, betting that a host of offerings from boxing to rodeo to rugby to adventure racing to football is one reality programming trend on the rise among women.
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No doubt England are not too far off becoming the number one rugby league nation. Times, Sunday Times
As a show of brotherhood, every rugby match is followed by a ‘social’ where the home team feeds and hosts the visiting team.
September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Welsh singer Duffy, real name Aimee Ann Duffy, is said to be dating British Lions rugby star Mike Phillips. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Now 25, the maturing rugby student has just enrolled for the final year of his degree in business management and leadership. Times, Sunday Times
Old frt from Marouba, the game of rugby is won & lost on the advantage line, by standing flat and the outside backs setting their depth outside him Cooper creates space & one on one opportunities against outmatch opponents, particularly at 4th phase & beyond. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
In the past two years, I have worked on a Welsh hill farm in lambing season, joined a male choir and competed at the National Eisteddfod, learned to row a coracle, been down one of the last Welsh coal mines, sent my middle-aged body out to train with Cardiff rugby players half my age. My quest to be more Welsh
Perhaps it was an opening gambit, much like the haka at a rugby match. Times, Sunday Times
He had refused to give up is job in the financial sector in order to become a full-time rugby professional.
There are a multitude of coaches, back-up coaches and tactical and technical thinkers spending their lives trying to change rugby for the better. Times, Sunday Times
He was a rugby celebrity in the days when players did not commonly appear in the glossy magazines. Times, Sunday Times
‘He has played high-level rugby union in New Zealand and I might try to get him over here as well, first with Hull RU and then with the Wasps,’ said Sorbello.
Fourteen men a side is not rugby union, nor league, and certainly not cricket, and the sooner they learn that the better for the dignity of the game and future tourists.
He has also emerged unscathed, reputation enhanced, from previous variants on the rugby bloodbath theme. Times, Sunday Times
The soldiers are members of an army rugby squad touring the US. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the interior is hollow now, forming a chamber big enough for the entire England rugby team to squeeze inside. Times, Sunday Times
The Zambia under-18 squad opened the quadrangular rugby tournament in Jwaneng with a 19-6 victory over their Botswana hosts.
An incredible ding-dong match - the lead changed hands seven times - played out in front of full, noisy stands showed that rugby league was back in York with a bang louder than the fireworks that greeted the players.
Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby.
Rugby I can understand - it's fairly exciting, everyone can play it, you can take the kids down the park of a Sunday arvo and throw the ball around.
There have been plenty of fizzers and one-sided matches in the opening rounds of the Rugby Union World Cup.
Just sorry one of the great rugby stories had to end in a French farce. The Sun
Rugby players misbehaving on tour? Times, Sunday Times
I was one of the founders of non-racial rugby and have been fighting for non-racial rugby all my life.
Wales have always been in contests with the best that rugby can offer. Times, Sunday Times
Rugby ranks 15th among school sports and physical activities - just behind dance!
His flying was initially hampered by a rugby injury and when he reported the injury he was suspected of having a lack of moral fibre.
He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was rusticated.
Their progress is a huge fillip to US rugby. Times, Sunday Times
We played the sort of rugby we have been aiming for, and I think with a bit of improved finishing we could have scored a few more tries.
Professionalism has raised the standard of rugby immensely.
Since late 1989, when Steinlager's three-year contract was not renewed, U.S. rugby has been without a principal sponsor.
It happens in rugby to a lesser extent. Times, Sunday Times
Each age group is run by a qualified rugby coach, but parents are encouraged to lend a hand.
The conditions at Telford Park were far from ideal for rugby, with a heavy pitch and a strong, gusting wind.
Despite the rumpus, it's business as usual with the side to play England still stuffed full of players born and bred outwith these borders and in many cases playing their rugby outside Scotland.
We see how excited people get when England start winning at cricket, football or rugby.
The captain of Wales requires the patience of a saint to cope with the demands of the populace of a country besotted by rugby. Times, Sunday Times
It is an instinctive split-second reaction to a fluid rugby situation. Times, Sunday Times
Then we'll play a game of rugby league. The Sun
(One afternoon melee at a friend's wedding, as the groom's rugby buddies drank the bar dry and tore up the dance floor in a loud, lewd, men-only kind of gyrating scrum, is about the closest I've come to the sport.) Story pick: The only openly gay male athlete
He learned of the tragedy before his current team, the London rugby union side Wasps where he is defensive coach, played a top-level game.
England appeared the next step for the man with the strength of a bear and the rugby brain of a computer. Times, Sunday Times
The potential for cringe was immediately apparent when two 'bongo' drummers emerged to take up position at the front of the stage (surely bodhran players would have been more appropriate?) and nine Irish rugby 'models' emerged bashfully to a bizarre jungle beat. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
The normal workings of the rugby world are put on hold in the week before an international, but as soon as something approximating to business as usual resumes tomorrow morning, the inquest which has been brewing all week will begin.
If anyone tried to play 2003 rugby this time around, they would simply get outgunned. Times, Sunday Times
And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer.
You are not a rugby player very long and you get one crack at it. Times, Sunday Times
Having developed the capacity to play some breathtaking rugby, we have sometimes failed to serve this captivating dish with a side order of pragmatism.
The rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch.
Rugby is a very rough sport.
Could it be because rugby union is a mainstream male sport and hockey and netball are not? Times, Sunday Times
If rugby were to get nervous, then there would be a queue for the firing squad. Times, Sunday Times
You are not a rugby player very long and you get one crack at it. Times, Sunday Times
It is about a West Coast Rugby team full of larger than life fictitious characters.
There were also residential courses and link-ups with local rugby league clubs.
The vast MAJORITY of rugby fans are agreeable and frequent the local restaurants and pubs with good humour and courtesy. Times, Sunday Times
I always thought rugby was about running and passing and tackling, but it has become a game of scrabbling about until the next baffling penalty is given. Times, Sunday Times
She said that people are drawn to the club because of its friendliness - and the fact that rugby is a terrifically entertaining game.
As violent as it got was on the rugby field with a little biffo here and there.
Tindall -- who Phillips met in 2003 in Australia during England's triumphant Rugby World Cup campaign -- is a leading rugby player who has captained his country. Zara Phillips <![CDATA[&]]> Mike Tindall Married In U.K. Royal Wedding (PHOTOS)
Now he is learning how to play wheelchair rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Both sides play a similar open style of rugby which should produce a fine spectacle.
In South Africa and in southern hemisphere domestic rugby in general, the defending team feels duty-bound to allow the ball to be recycled about 94 times before it can bring itself to compete for it.
If anyone behaves like that on a rugby pitch they get dispatched pretty quickly. Times, Sunday Times
Members receive exclusive football, rugby and cricket highlights free as part of their subscription. Times, Sunday Times
Choosing where and when to play with ambition, and respecting areas on the field, stages of the game and scorelines at which efficiency is more important than genius is the difference between schoolboy rugby and the league version.
They're really getting behind the team and seem to be genuinely enjoying their rugby.
If that were the case then rugby, the high profile student sport, would lose out financially.
Not all the rugby has been easy on the eye, but it has been granite hard. Times, Sunday Times
This time, rugby has balanced pompous speeches with real measures. Times, Sunday Times
The most promising players can now combine their sixth-form education with an apprenticeship in rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Rugby is the all-time leader in biffs and bangs and broken bones, but you don't often die.
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. Oscar Wilde
The new school is operating out of the local rugby club house and is awaiting planning permission for the erection of two prefab buildings.
But he considers it wrong that rugby's heartlands are being ignored and substantial areas disenfranchised, purely for financial expediency. Times, Sunday Times
It was a far from perfect game for the fly half, but that was to be expected given his paucity of rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Both curtain-raisers should provide entertaining rugby with the Aloes again fielding an impressive line-up against the Natal Wildebeest.
The 23-year-old made his international rugby league debut for Samoa earlier this year. Times, Sunday Times
The 1991 World Cup generated unprecedented interest in rugby union and planted the sport firmly in the top league of spectator sports.
Apparently it's the rugby football world cup or something at the moment, but I have yet to meet anyone who cares.
I am yet to read in a newspaper, or see on television, a report involving a brawl with the supporter of a rugby team and the match officials.
He has had his ups and downs but is sincere in his assertion that rugby is his main focus. Times, Sunday Times
We are going to honour that by playing hard rugby on the field. Times, Sunday Times
A weights and conditioning expert who has previously worked extensively with rugby teams was introduced, and an intensive weights programme provided for those needing it.
At first glance, the grace and poise of a ballerina seem difficult to reconcile with the combative and confrontational nature of the game of rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Rugby is a very rough sport.
So much of Test rugby comes down to those two things. Times, Sunday Times
I do think the Government and its agencies have meddled far too long in the affairs of rugby.
Barnes … and, er, yes, Bob Skinstad for a bit of midfield "muscularity" given his more recognised rugby pedigree. News24 Top Stories
Those 14 stitches may have precluded a grin of his own but the smile was back on the face of English rugby. The Sun
We had Wednesday afternoons off to play sport, which was rowing in the summer and rugby in the winter.
Others were from rugby teammates, fraternity brothers, business associates, and boyfriends.
Many statistics may be damned lies, but nothing could be more indicative of how rugby has changed than one relating to the opening of Murrayfield in 1925.
Is there not one prominent rugby union footballer or journalist who is compelled to criticize this scandalous and absurd state of affairs?
Irish rugby bosses have reluctantly agreed to go along with a move by the Six Nations committee to condense the programme from 2003 into seven weeks.
Wheelchair rugby is the only Paralympic sport to have lost its funding completely. Times, Sunday Times
It is hoped this will now be the end of a dark period in South African rugby.
The Warriors full-back is a rugby league phenomenon suited to the biggest stage. The Sun
Yet conversely, that was when they tried playing all the rugby and conceded their second try. Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, the same could apply to rugby where there is little precaution to shield juniors and juveniles from being exposed to the habits of their superiors.
The ANC are attacking rugby because it is the soft underbelly of South African sport.
Paralympic sport wheelchair rugby - or 'murderball' as it is otherwise known - showcases an orchestra of impact. Times, Sunday Times
He had been the golden boy of Welsh rugby.
There he issued a rallying cry to resurrect professional rugby league in York and, since then, has put in numerous hours of unpaid work, along with Hall and Miller, to get a club back in the Rugby Football League.
The promised blood and snotters had also failed to arrive with only the odd skirmish to disfigure what was turning into an enthralling game of rugby.
He was wearing a long trench coat, a red and white rugby shirt, blue jeans and may have had black shoes.
He was educated at Rugby School and after this, he managed his father's sisal plantation in the Bahamas for seven years.
Wherever he was in the world he managed to get hold of all the important rugby results.
Keen frosts had slowly given way to warmer weather and after a fortnight's hold-up rugby football and hockey teams were able to play.
Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.
But the former Wasps centre is not about to embark on a playing career in Australia - he has won a national competition to follow the British Lions rugby union team on tour.

How To Use Rugby In A Sentence

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