Where did rugby originate?

Answer 1

Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire.

William Webb Ellis got bored of just hoofing a bag of wind around so decided to pick it up instead!

Answer 2

Rugby

Answer 3

The origin of rugby football is often credited to a young man named William Webb Ellis who "took the ball in his arms [i.e. caught the ball] and ran" while playing a form of football at Rugby school (Warwickshire) in 1823.
However historians have questioned the authenticity of this story, beginning with an official investigation by the Old Rugbeian Society in 1895.

Answer 4

Erm, Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire.

Webb-Ellis was so untalented in football he decided to cheat by picking up the football and this led to the creation of a new game. I'm not sure that naming a game after the place it was first played is a good idea, or all our sports would be named things like Newcastle and London.

Answer 5

Rugby School, William Web Ellis as everyone else has said, hence The Web Ellis Trophy!
William Webb Ellis (November 24, 1806 – January 24, 1872) is often credited with the invention of Rugby football. The story of how he founded the game of rugby football is highly likely fictional. Nevertheless his name is firmly established in the lore of rugby football. He has become immortalised by the William Webb Ellis Cup presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup.

William was born in Salford, Lancashire, though he said he was born in Manchester in an 1851 census. He was the son of James Ellis, an officer in the Dragoon Guards and Ann Webb. After her husband was killed in 1812 during a battle, Mrs Ellis decided to move to Rugby, Warwickshire so that William and his older brother Thomas could receive a good education at Rugby School, living within 10 miles of the school meant she paid no fees for the boys. William attended the school from 1816 to 1825 and he was recorded as a good scholar and cricketer. The incident where Webb Ellis picked up and ran with the ball in his arms during a football match is supposed to have happened in the latter half of 1823.

After leaving Rugby he went to Oxford University in 1826. Here he played cricket for Brasenose College, Oxford. He entered the Church and became chaplain of St George's, Albemarle Street, London and then rector of St Clement Danes in The Strand. In 1855 he became rector of Laver Magdalene in Essex. He died in the south of France in 1872 in the town of Menton on the French Riviera near the Italian border. He spent the last six months of his life trying to recover from TB in the dryer conditions by the Mediterranean. His grave at Menton was rediscovered by Ross McWhirter in 1958 and has since been renovated. The actual site is plot 957 in le cimetiére du Vieux Château à Menton in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Answer 6

Rugby originates from the green valleys of Wales. Forget all that nonsense about a school in Rugby ~ that's pure myth and legend.

I have it on good authority that a man called Jones or was that Williams or Edwards or Morgan came out of the pit after a long shift and threw his cap to a friend who threw it in the air and then all his mates chased it ~ there were 15 altogether.

Down the green valleys they ran throwing and kicking the cap until they came to their favourite pub ~ the Rugby arms.

Then Morgan said to Williams ~ Due man let's have a game of chase the cap tomorrow and Williams said Let's call it Rugby in honour of the pub and a new game was born!!!!

Bloody geniuses those Welsh miners.

Vern

Answer 7

In rugby

Answer 8

Know all about Rugby World Cup History.....

http://www.holidayshub.com/rugby-world-cup-2007/history/index.html

Answer 9

rugby originated in rugby in england when a school boy called will webb ellis picked up a football during a match (soccer) and ran with the ball

Answer 10

At a school in England called Rugby School. They named the sport after the school. The guy who invented it was called William Webb-Ellis.