How it all began

It is said that a student named William Webb Ellis, was playing a game of soccer and picked up the ball and began running with it, the problem is soccer wasn't invented at this time.

So, rugby was not just invented, it evolved over thousands of years. It is said that it can date back to when japan and china were playing an early form of the game 2,000 years ago



An early game between France and Germany
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The ball.

At the beginning the ball was made of leather and an inner section made from pigs bladder


Richard Lindon invented the inner rubber
bladder, after the pigs bladder
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