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Match scheduled:
Date: 26-05-2010 Time:18:30 until 20:30
Bristol vs Exeter
Rugby football is named after a
school in
England called Rugby school. Legend has it that one day in 1823, a senior boy called William Webb Ellis elected to run with the ball rather than retiring to kick it as was the normal mode of play in Rugby School football matches. "
Running in" was not considered quite the done thing then but was later formalised in the laws of Rugby Football (first published in 1846). Association Football was not formalised until 1863 and even then allowed handling of the ball, but not catching it and running with it.
In the mid 1860's an attempt was made to provide one set of laws for all football but there were irreconcilable differences (mainly concerning
