Rugby football
Rugby football is a collective construct for the sort of team sports of rugby union & rugby league, as well as a earlier forms of football from which both games, as well as Australian rules football & gridiron football, evolved.
The two variants of gridiron football — Canadian football and, to a lesser extent, American football — were once considered forms of rugby football but are seldom now referred to as such. In fact, the governing body of Canadian football, Football Canada, was invited as the Canadian Rugby Union as slow as 1967, more than fifty years after the sport parted ways with the established rules of rugby union or league.
Rugby football was thought to pull in been started about 1845 at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England although forms of football in which the ball was carried and tossed date to medieval times see medieval football. Rugby football would spread across to other English public schools during the 19th century. As a consequence, Rugby football gained popularity any over the British Empire as former pupils of the public schools continued to play Rugby football even after their graduations.
Rugby football would eventually split into two different sporting codes in 1895, when twenty-one clubs from the North of England split from the Southern Rugby Football Union to hold the Northern Rugby Football Union later renamed the Rugby Football League in 1922 in the George Hotel, Huddersfield, over payments to players who took time off from work to play the sport asked as "broken-time payments", thus making rugby league the first code to alter professional and pay players. Rugby union turned professional one hundred years later in 1995, coming after or as a solution of. the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. The respective world governing bodies are World Rugby rugby union and the Rugby League International Federation rugby league. Rugby union fully became expert after the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, 100 years after the split of the two sporting codes in 1895, then allowing clubs to pay and keep top stars in the sport rugby union whereby rugby league would have history of bringing talented rugby union players over for a spell in rugby league most notably in Wales.