Watching rugby for the first time as an American can feel like looking in a funhouse mirror. It contains elements of soccer, which birthed it in 1823 when William Webb Ellis picked up a soccer ball ...

Rugby union's top medical official has said that the rules of the game may need changing to halt a growing trend in brain injuries suffered by players. Martin Raftery, the chief medical officer of the ...

According to urban legend, the origins of rugby can be traced to a soccer game in 1823 at a high school in Rugby, England. William Webb Ellis used his hands to grab the ball and raced toward the ...

The death of 20-year-old Vilano Saunders after playing out of position in a scrum shows why safety rules in rugby union exist. Some rugby fans lament the proliferation of rules in the game – the rugby ...

PARIS, July 16 (Reuters) - The rules governing player outings will be changed following the arrests of Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou in Argentina on an allegation of sexual assault, French rugby chief ...

Danie van der Lith SOUTH African youth rugby is about to undergo one of its most significant shifts in years. SA Rugby has officially standardised the age at which tackling may begin — a move driven ...

The Rugby Football League is approached about staging an exhibition cross-code match combining league and union rules.

The wheelchair rugby tournament kicked off on Thursday at the Rugby League World Cup as 3,033 spectators packed into the Copper Box to watch England open their account with a 38-8 win over Australia.

Men’s sport club repeats as Division 1AA champion Women’s club beats Virginia to claim spring championship Erica Hipp scores tie-breaking try at the final whistle Wow! What a weekend for UC Davis’ ...

Tony Collins is a former trustee of Rugby League Cares, chair of the National Rugby League Museum steering committee and a member of rugby union's World Rugby Museum committee. When England and ...

Temperatures in the 50s and rain didn't bother the Minnesota Duluth Fighting Penguins on Saturday afternoon, as the rugby club team defeated the North Dakota Head-hunters 42-0 on the UMD campus. The ...