I really like sports, but I have just found out about Rugby.  It is interesting but I do not know much about it
i've never seen rugby football but it's a team sport, have you?
I have watched it on ESPN2.  Do you know anything about the history of the sport?
apparently there are separate sports that use different rules now
So it is different versions like how there is American Football and Canadian Football?
yeah basically! The rules were modified so much that it just became different forms of rugby
Where did rugby begin?  I am assuming Europe, but I am pretty much just guessing
well yeah it actually started with the greeks and romans, believe it or not!
Wow, so they invented rugby and wrestling.  They must really like their contact sports!
, they are now wholly separate sports. In addition to these two codes, both American and Canadian football evolved from rugby football in the beginning of the 20th century.
Forms.
Following the 1895 split in rugby football, the two forms rugby league and rugby union differed in administration only. Soon the rules of rugby league were modified, resulting in two distinctly different forms of rugby. 100 years later, rugby union joined rugby league and most other forms of football as an openly professional sport.
The Olympic form
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