Did You Know?

Did you know?

That Rugby Football was believed to have originated in 1823 when William Webb Ellis took the football in his hands and ran with it to the goal post, of course you did.


That in Asia, the ASIAD Rugby tournament was supposed to have originated in the mid nineties. The twentieth ASIAD Rugby Football tournament that was to be staged from the 18th to 25th of November in Sri Lanka now stands postponed due to participating teams, particularly, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan expressing concerns over the prevailing security situation in Sri Lanka.


That the United States are the world's reigning rugby champions - when it comes to the Olympics, anyway. The US rugby team took the gold medal when the game was last played at the Olympics back in 1924. Rugby was dropped from the tournament after that, but there's a growing campaign to make it an Olympic sport again.