Today the main rugby method of scoring is called a try. If you are ‘merican and have wandered here by accident that would be called a ‘touchdown’ over the pond. When the game was first played, you had to score a try i.e. touch the ball in the other team’s goal area (the area from…

Rugby is really a town in Warwickshire – quite close to the unofficial capital of the sub-continent in the UK. This town received William Webb-Ellis, his brother and mum around 1816. They were doing that school catchment area move back then so the boys could go to the Rugby school for free. Not much is…