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Parent topics
- Football [r]: Any of a number of team sports which involve kicking a ball. [e]
- Rugby, Warwickshire [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby School [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Terminology
- Earning the right to go wide [r]: a mantra used by Wales rugby union coach Warren Gatland, meaning that a team in possession of the ball must first go forward before passing the ball out to the fast-running wingers. [e]
- Try [r]: the main way of scoring points in rugby union; to score a try, the ball must be touched down over the opposing team’s touchline. [e]
- Ruck [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maul [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scrum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Line out [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blind side [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Drop kick [r]: Add brief definition or description
Positions
- Front row [r]: The front of a rugby scrum, one hooker between two props, interlock with the opposing scrums front row. [e]
- Prop [r]: The role of both the loose- and tighthead props is to support the hooker in the scrum and to provide dynamic support for the jumpers in the line-out. [e]
- Loosehead prop [r]: (Number 1) Pack down on the left-hand side of the scrum where their head is outside that of the opposing tighthead prop. [e]
- Tighthead prop [r]: (Number 3) Pack down on the right-hand side of the scrum and their head fits between the opposing loosehead prop and hooker. [e]
- Hooker [r]: (Number 2) the middle player in the front row of a rugby scrum; they use their feet to 'hook' and win the ball in the scrum. This player often throws in the ball at line-outs. [e]
- Prop [r]: The role of both the loose- and tighthead props is to support the hooker in the scrum and to provide dynamic support for the jumpers in the line-out. [e]
- Second row [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Back row [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Half backs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Three-quarters [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fullback [r]: Add brief definition or description
Tounaments
- International Rugby Board [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pacific Nations Cup [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby World Cup [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Six Nations Championship [r]: "The premiere Northern-hemisphere international Rugby union competition." [e]
- Heineken Cup [r]: The premier Rugby union international club competition in the northern hemisphere. [e]
- Tri Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Women's Rugby World Cup [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Women's Six Nations Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Calcutta Cup [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- 1924 Summer Olympics [r]: The VIII Summer Olympic Games, held in Paris (FRA). [e]
- Rugby league [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby sevens [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby World Cup Sevens [r]: Add brief definition or description
