Rugby School

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David Campese of the Wallabies makes a break during the Australia vs New Zealand semi-final during the 1991 Rugby World Cup, at Lansdowne Road, Dublin. Photograph: Getty Images
Matt Williams: Alexander the Great offers an important lesson for rugby coaches

In the 1991 Rugby World Cup semi-final between New Zealand and the Wallabies, David Campese delivered the greatest pass I have ever witnessed. Campes(...)

Lieut Peter Ames
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of wounds received

MORNING Lieutenant Peter Ames (32): Ames was born into a wealthy American family in Pennsylvania. He moved to London in 1912, joined the Grenadier G(...)

Lieut Peter Ames
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle

MORNING Lieutenant Peter Ames (32): Ames was born into a wealthy American family in Pennsylvania. He moved to London in 1912, joined the Grenadier G(...)

Lieut Peter Ames
Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of their wounds

MORNING Lieutenant Peter Ames (32): Ames was born into a wealthy American family in Pennsylvania. He moved to London in 1912, joined the Grenadier G(...)

Scrums are again a blight on the game. We need to see a return to the excellent laws from the 1980s, when penalty kicks at goal were not allowed from scrum infringements. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
Matt Williams: Time for World Rugby to pick up the ball and run with rule changes

The mythology surrounding rugby’s conception states that in 1823 at Rugby School, during a game of soccer, a student named William Webb Ellis, picked (...)

Everybody thinks they know how rugby began. But do they?
The Story of Rugby: How an elite took possession of the game and didn’t let go

Everybody knows how rugby began. In 1823, during a boring old game of football, a young student at England’s posh Rugby School named William Webb Ell(...)

In a word Patsy McGarry

With the Heineken Cup final on next Saturday it seems appropriate we should consider the word “rugby” this week. The game is named after a public scho(...)