General Information And History 1900 The first time rugby was played in the olympics, in Paris, France. 2002 - The fourth Women s rugby World Cup played in Barcelona s olympic http://www.marshall.edu/marshallrugby/RugbyFacts.htm
Extractions: Facts: 1823 - William Webb Ellis originated the distinctive feature of the game of rugby when, as the commemorative plaque at Rugby School in the town of Rugby says, "with a fine disregard for the rules of the game of football (soccer) as played in his time, [he] first took the ball in his arms and ran with it." The other boys made chase and tackled him, and so began the game of rugby as we see it played today. 1863 - The first recorded club game took place, in which Richmond played Blackheath in London, England. 1871 - The Rugby Football Union (RFU) was formed to establish a clear set of rules and to introduce referees to oversee the game. - The tradition of international matches that is now over a century old was begun when England's best players met Scotland's best players at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh. 1874 - The first game played in North America was Canada's McGill University versus the USA's Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1886 - The International Rugby Board (IRB) was formed. Ireland, Scotland and Wales were the first members to join; England followed in 1890. 1900 - The first time rugby was played in the Olympics, in Paris, France. France did their country proud by claiming the gold medal.
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Southern California Rugby Football Union won the olympics in 1920 and 1924 (the last year that rugby was an olympic A wonderful part of SCRFU history is the start of Women s rugby in 1972 http://www.scrfu.org/history.htm
Extractions: While the rugby game was very active in California in the early 1900's and players from here, especially Cal and Stanford, comprised the majority of the teams who won the Olympics in 1920 and 1924 (the last year that rugby was an Olympic sport), the sport had many dormant years from the mid 30's to the mid 50's when a resurrection occurred and the modern era of what we know as our current reasonably popular sport on college and university campuses and men's and women's clubs got it's rebirth. The oldest club in SCRFU is the Eagle Rock Athletic Club (founded in 1937) who had semi professional football success for many years that developed into rugby success, especially in the 50's and 60's and early 70's. The second oldest is the LARC (Universities RFC formed in 1958 that changed their name to Los Angeles Rugby Club in 1966). Great teams from Belmont and OMBAC dominated the ensuing years in SCRFU, with LARC a close pursuer. OMBAC took over the dominance of NCRFU and went on to many national Championships, fighting Belmont for the right to represent SCRFU in the fight to get through the PCRFU Championships to represent PCRFU in the Nationals. Since SCRFU became a TU Belmont and OMBAC continued to dominate as the top teams in Men's rugby.
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USA Rugby - History Shortly after the 1924 olympics, however, the International olympic Committee (IOC)removed rugby as an olympic sport. Without the olympic incentive, http://www.usarugby.org/about/history.html
Extractions: However, the sport then enjoyed a renaissance, beginning in the 1960s and continuing through the 1970s. This created the need for a national governing body to represent the USA in the International rugby community. Four territorial organizations gathered in Chicago, Ill., in 1975 and formed the United States of America Rugby Football Union (now known as USA Rugby). Today, USA Rugby is made up of seven Territorial Unions (TUs) and 37 Local Area Unions (LAUs),and supports more than 50,000 members.
Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union There is a lot of history preceding the formal organization of the Northern rugby rebounded, however, in 1932 when US olympic teammates Ed Mush Graff, http://www.pacificcoastrugby.com/template.php?sid=10
London Olympics 2012 - The Times And The Sunday Times Alongside him, stunned by one of the biggest upsets in olympic history, were LordCoe, Football, rugby, cricket, Formula One and major sporting events. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4662-1682910,00.html
Extractions: London sensationally won the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics after beating bitter rivals Paris today in a showdown vote of the International Olympic Committee despite a last-minute appeal by President Jacques Chirac for the Games to return to France. NI_MPU('middle'); The UK bid beat the long-time favourites in the fourth and final round of voting at an IOC meeting in Singapore, crossing the line first with 54 votes to 50. Moscow, New York and then Madrid had been dumped out of the contest in the earlier rounds of voting. Trafalgar Square erupted in cheers as thousands gathered there to watch the proceedings on giant television screens saw Jacques Rogge, the IOC president, open the result envelope and utter the words that seemed so unlikely only a few months ago - that the Games of the 30th Olympiad were "awarded to the city of London". Among the special guests at the Trafalgar Square party organised by the London 2012 bid was Dame Kelly Holmes, Britain's double Olympic champion, who looked even more stunned than after her won come-from-behind victory in the Athens Olympic 1,500 metres race last year.
Extractions: It was 53 years ago this summer in the Finnish capital that the husband and wife athletes, Zatopek and Zatopkova, who were born on the same day, won Olympic gold on the same day. Zatopek triumphed in the 5,000 metres, Zatopkova in the javelin, and between them, over four Olympics, they won seven medals. But they took four back from Helsinki to their home in Czechoslovakia. NI_MPU('middle'); Zatopek won the 10,000 metres and marathon either side of the 5,000 metres and, never mind the treble, he remains the only athlete to have achieved a 10,000 metres and marathon double at a global championships. As much as Radcliffe has tried in the past two days to quieten speculation that she is making a serious attack on the double, the prospect is too romantic to ignore. Zatopkova, now 82, has survived her husband, Zatopek having died in November 2000, aged 78. He won the 10,000 metres and was runner-up in the 5,000 metres at the 1948 London Olympics in a career that included 18 world records. He was renowned for his fearless front-running, as Radcliffe is, and Zatopkova delights in how the Briton reminds her of her late husband.
International Olympic Academy The admittedly short history of olympic rugby is an interesting one. In the Parisgames of 1900 only three teams entered, France, Germany, and Great Britain http://www.sport.gov.gr/2/24/243/2431/24314/243144/paper20.html
Extractions: The Development of Rugby episkyros or the Roman game of harpastum . Some have also tried to show how rugby and soccer were developed by the Celts or imported by the Anglo-Saxons and Normans. It has even been asserted that football was a product of the native Britons who celebrated the defeat of an enemy army with a ritual game played with a ball. Given the lack of historical evidence however, there is no way to successfully defend any of these arguments. The development of rugby can be divided into five overlapping stages, from the 14 th century until today. Each stage of game development, except that between one and two, required a demand for more orderly and restrained behavior according to what Norbert Elias calls the civilizing process of the game. This is what Norbert Elias calls the civilizing process of the game. This civilizing process also led to a sports ethos developed in the public school system in England, which Pierre de Coubertin would use as a model for the Olympic games. th to the 20 th century football was an entire class of folk games that were relatively simple, wild, and unruly. There were simple oral rules and considerable variation in the style of play from location to location. These folk games were the common matrix from which rugby was descended.
Extractions: At 16, she gave it all away. And it's taken her 25 years to come to terms with that teenage fame. The Sports Factor also visits the International Swimming Hall of Fame in the USA, where Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould have just been proclaimed the top two female swimmers of the second half of the century.
Australian Sports Commission - Board Alan Jones is a former Australian rugby Union coach and former coach of Balmain Often rated as the greatest male swimmer in Australian olympic history, http://www.ausport.gov.au/asc/board.asp
Extractions: Home About ASC AIS Developing ... Tenders You are here Home About ASC Overview The ASC is governed by a Board of commissioners who are appointed by the Federal Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator the Hon Rod Kemp Details of all members who served on the Board during the year ending 30 June 2003 are as follows: Mr Peter Bartels (Chairman), Mr Alan Jones AM (Deputy Chairman), Mr Cory Bernardi, Ms Michelle Ford-Eriksson MBE, Ms Margot Foster, Mr Roy J Masters, Mr Kieren Perkins OAM, Ms Pamela Tye OAM, Mr John Eales AM, Ms Helen Williams AO (ex-officio). Mr Peter Bartels AO (Chairman) FAISM, FRS Peter was formerly a chief executive officer and managing director of a number of leading public companies. He is currently a director of the Melbourne Business School and chairman of Central City Studios. His interests extend beyond the business sector and over the past twelve months he has played a vital role in community affairs as chairman of Women's and Children's Health, a director of the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation and a director of the Murdock Children's Research Institute. Throughout the year he continued in his role as chairman of the CHOGM Committee for Cooperation through Sport, served as a director of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation and was a Director of Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Pty Ltd
ACTSPORT - Hall Of Fame In doing so Paul became the only Australian in olympic history to have representedAustralia A dual International in both rugby League and rugby Union, http://www.actsport.com.au/fame/2003_inductees.htm
Extractions: Year 2003 Inductees Lisa Carruthers (O.A.M) An Olympic Gold medal on home turf at the Sydney 2000 Olympic games was a fitting end to an excellent career for Canberra Strikers defender Lisa Carruthers. Described as playing the game at one pace, fast, Lisa was first selected in the Australian Senior team in June 1989 for a five test series against New Zealand. From this Lisa rose to great heights in her Hockey career, competing in three consecutive Olympics, collecting two Gold medals along the way. After celebrating her 200th game for Australia in the 1999 Oceania Cup, Lisa went on to represent Australia 230 times before deciding to hang up her boots in 2000. An experienced campaigner and a steadfast and valuable defender in any team Lisa has done the ACT region proud with her sporting endeavours.
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California Golden Bears - Official Athletic Site rugby team brought home gold medals from both the 1920 and 1924 olympic games . If history means anything, look for Clark and the Bears to win their http://calbears.collegesports.com/sports/m-rugby/archive/cal-m-rugby-a-history.h
Extractions: MEN'S SPORTS Baseball Basketball Crew ... Sport Camps ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Alumni Big C Society Former Student-Athletes Young Alumni ... Recent Achievements VISITOR GUIDE Visiting Berkeley Hotel Directions Parking ... Site Map setNav("mainleft",["000066","000066"],["000066","333f7f"],["999999","999999"]) setNav("ath",["333f7f","000066"],["000066","333f7f"],["999999","999999"]) BERKELEY, Calif. - On the campus of the University of California, rugby belongs in a category all its own. It is the school's oldest sport dating back more than 100 years. In 1882, the Cal rugby squad was the university's first team to play an outside opponent. The Bears played four games that first year, compiling a 2-1-1 record. The university continued to play rugby until 1885, when the rules of the game shifted to those of American football. However, in 1906 rugby returned as the school's main fall sport as the administration felt that football rules were becoming too dangerous. Over the next eight years the Cal sides posted a 78-21-10 record under the direction of coaches Oscar Taylor and James G. Schaffer. The year 1914 marked a temporary end to collegiate competition due to the first World War and the return of football as the primary fall sport. Rugby did not return until 1931. During the hiatus when athletes could not play for the university, ruggers found another area of competition: the Olympics. The United States Rugby team brought home gold medals from both the 1920 and 1924 Olympic games. California students Charlie Tilden, Matt Hazeltine, Red Meigan, George Dixon, and Ed "Mush" Graff were among the Americans who stunned their European opponents and audiences with their "aggressive tackling and superb punting" according to a French newspaper of the day.
SI.com - Summer Olympic History - Tuesday August 10, 2004 3:20AM Summer olympic history. Posted Tuesday August 3, 2004 319AM; Updated WednesdayAugust 11, 2004 937PM rugby School motivated founder of Games http://www.cnnsi.com/2004/olympics/2004/08/03/olympic.history/
Extractions: The opening ceremonies at the 1896 Athens Olympics. Getty Images YEAR-BY-YEAR Summaries and medal standings BACKGROUND Facts on Olympic history COMPLETE COVERAGE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Covers Database MEDALS By country and year U.S. totals By event EVENTS Athletics (Men) Athletics (Women) Marathon Swimming ... Tennis EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS Tragedy cast a pall over Munich Games Boycott, records galore at Montreal Games Lewis poetry in motion at 1984 Showbiz Games Seoul Games scarred by riots, Johnson ... Ali, Johnson eased pain of Atlanta bombing LEGENDS Jesse Owens exposed Nazis' Aryan myths Comaneci still amazed by 1976 feat Weissmuller turned from pool to jungle loincloth Zatopek's grimaces hid supremely efficient style ... 'Terrific tornado' Didriksen dazzled L.A. FEATURES Showbiz, hype reign at opening ceremonies Rugby School motivated founder of Games Women cleared hurdles to join Games Sex, drugs and cheating in 400 B.C. ... Chronology ABOUT ATHENS Modern Olympics giant returns to humble roots Athens' forgotten games seen as Olympic savior Games showcase Athens' dreams, tough times
The New Zealand Edge Hot - Kevin Roberts Rugby Postcard Www into the olympic Rings, to the magnificent parade through Greek history, The olympic trough is second to none. The olympics make the rugby World Cup http://www.nzedge.com/hot/rugby/04_Sept.html
History Of Success Richard Hill, British Lion and member of the 2003 rugby World Cup winning team; Alan Pascoe, MBE, European and Commonwealth gold medallist and olympic http://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/sport/elitesport/success/
Extractions: Brunel Home ... Elite Sport Brunel is one of the UK's top institutions not only as an academic centre of excellence in the study of sport sciences, but also in the achievements of its students. This is illustrated by the number of graduates, students and staff across the University who have represented their country at the Olympic Games, World Championships and other international competitions as competitors and coaches and by the many individuals who have achieved international standing in their chosen sport. Brunel encourages students to play sport from recreational level through to elite level. You can judge the overall strength of our students from their record in the British Universities Championships: Seven teams in BUSA Premier leagues and a further 11 in the First Division; Men's Rugby Union Champions in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002; Men's Hockey Champions in 1996, 1997 and 1998; Men's Indoor Athletics Champions in 1998 and 1999, and Overall runners-up Outdoors in 1998 and 1999; Trampolining Team Gold in 2003 and 2004;
