How Rugby Was created?

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Rebeca Moreno Caetano nº 24  2ºB

Professora: Assunta Manzi Aguena

Componente Curricular: Inglês

ESI Colégio São José       13/04/2016

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Rugby

Trabalho apresentado ao ESI Colégio São José para a disciplina de língua Inglesa sob orientação da professora Assunta Manzi Aguena como parte integrante da nota do primeiro trimestre.

13/04/2016

Introduction

Rugby is not a sport considered popular in Brazil, but in some other countries, like New Zealand, it is considered the principal sport in the country. In these pages, I will talk a bit about the sport itself, the benefits that it brings to our health, and a few more curiosities, just so the readers of this paperwork can have a better perspective of rugby, without the prejudice that many people have, knowing it just as a violent sport.

Summary

How Rugby Was Created………………………………………………………………… Page 5

What Rugby consists of…………………………………………………………………… Page 6

How Rugby is seen in Brazil and in other countries…………………………. Page 7

Curiosities………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 8

How disabled people are seen in Rugby………………………………………… Page 9

Benefits of Rugby for the health…………………………………………………… Page 10

How is it in the Olympic Games……………………………………………………. Page 11

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………. Page 12

Bibliographic References………………………………………………………………. Page 13

How Rugby was created?

The Greeks and the Romans are known for having many ball games, most of it extinct in modern days, but believed to be the predecessors of all of the ball games we have today. With Rugby is not different. In the UK, many ball games were played before Rugby was invented, but only when a boy, named Willis Webb Ellis, took the ball in his hands, and started running, with the rest of the team running after him, all of them furious with the disregard of Ellis for the rules. In 1823, is where all of the specialists agree that Rugby was truly invented.

What Rugby consists of?

Rugby union is a contact sport that consists of two teams of fifteen players. The objective is to obtain more points than the opposition through scoring tries or kicking goals over 80 minutes of playing time, divided into two 40 minute halves.

Play is started with one team drop kicking the ball from the halfway line towards the opposition. The rugby ball can be moved up the field by either carrying it or kicking it. However, when passing the ball it cannot be thrown forward. The opposition can stop players moving up the field by tackling them. Only players carrying the ball can be tackled and once a tackle is completed the opposition can compete for the ball.

Play stops when a Try is scored, the ball crosses the side line or dead ball line, or an infringement occurs. After a team scores points, the other team restarts the game at the halfway with a drop kick towards the opposition. The team with the most points at the end wins the game.

How Rugby is seen in Brazil and in other countries?

Rugby is not a popular sport in Brazil, because it is considered violent. Although this fact, the fan-base of rugby in Brazil is increasing year after year, with several teams, such as the “Locomotiva Rugby Club of Araraquara”, from São Paulo. And the list of teams keeps growing.

The women’s team is one of the most developed in South America, although the sport in Brazil is not very popular. The technique that the Brazilian Female Team showed was way superior to the other National Teams, fact that resulted in three southamerican championships, the last of them being an unbeaten way, with the ladies winning every game they played.  

Out of Brazil, Rugby is recognized as a very popular sport in almost all countries in Europe and Oceania. The World Championship invites all of the most traditional teams in the world, such as England, France, New Zealand and Australia, and even Argentina, being the most powerful teams in the world.

The countries where the sport is considered the most popular, such as New Zealand and the “All-Blacks” (name of their national team), were, in their majority, former colonies of England, during the time of the Industrial Revolution, where the sailors and settlers who came from England introduced the game to the natives and their descendents while they were there.

Curiosities

1 - The sport of rugby is named after Rugby School, where the game was first played. The game is said to have been invented in 1823 when William Webb Ellis caught the ball while playing a game of football at school, and ran to the goal with it. Although there is doubt about whether this actually happened, Webb Ellis is still remembered as the sport's inventor and the winner of the Rugby Union World Cup, held every four years, receives the Webb Ellis Cup. 

2 - Rugby is known for the use of oval-shaped balls. However, this hasn't always been the case. Initially, the balls were plum-shaped due to the shape of pigs' bladders that they were made from. They became more spherical towards the end of the 19th Century when they began being made using rubber inner tubes rather than the bladders of pigs. However, to distinguish the balls used in rugby from the balls used for football, Rugby School requested that their balls remained slightly egg-shaped. Over time, they have become more and more flattened to the shape that they are now. Oval balls are more suited to rugby than spherical balls as they are easier to catch, hold and run with and don't roll as far so don't go out of play as often.