rugby football is a very violent game!
Rugby is a very old game that can be traced all the way the Greek and Romans.
Wow!   What was the ball made from back then?
took time off work to play the sport, thus making rugby league the first code to turn professional and pay players. It was a hundred years later in 1995, following the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, that rugby union turned fully professional. The respective world governing bodies are World Rugby (rugby union) and the Rugby League International Federation (rugby league). 
Rugby football was one of many versions of football played at English public schools in the 19th century. Although rugby league initially used rugby union rules
traced back to a pre-existing Georgian folk sport, called "lelo" or "Lelo Burti" (meaning literally in Georgian "Field Ball"), which is a full contact ball game, and very similar to rugby. In fact, even within Georgian rugby terminology, the word "lelo" is used to mean a try.
Lelo was played in Georgia from ancient times and is still played on occasions in rural areas. A field ("Lelo") was selected between two river creeks which represented