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Rugby School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity.
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is simply based on running with the ball in hand.
People educated at Rugby School. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alumni of Rugby School. Former pupils of Rugby School, in Warwickshire, England. They are known in some circles as "Old Rugbeians". The abbreviation "OR" is sometimes used to identify this.
Rugby School is an English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18 in Rugby, Warwickshire. It was founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys. It is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.
The Rugby Group is a group of 18 British public schools. The group was formed in the 1960s as an association of major boarding schools within the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
A brief history of Rugby School. At least two centuries of Rugby’s history are written in the stones and other monuments to tradition that stand around the School Close, where in 1823, local lad William Webb Ellis, with a fine disregard for the rules of football, took the ball in his arms and ran with it, originating the game of rugby football.
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