a team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand. Points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' goal line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of the opponents' goal

a town in central England, on the River Avon in Warwickshire; population 64,300 (est. 2009). Rugby School was founded there in 1567