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It's Super Bowl time in the USA, and arguably the running game of gridiron football was born across 'the Pond' with the development of rugby football, at Rugby school.
THE BIRTHPLACE OF RUGBY, RUGBY SCHOOL, RUGBY William Webb Ellis created the modern sport of Rugby or Rugby Football in 1823, when during a game of football at the Rugby Public School he picked up the ball and ran with it. The Rugby World Cup is named after William Webb Ellis. This founding story of the game has been questioned, with the possibility that another Rugby schoolboy, Jem Mackie, created the running and handling game around 1838, and may have been expelled for his exploits, with the Webb Ellis who became a clergyman being inserted into the story as someone who could not be tarnished by the story of breaking the rules. The running and handling style became popular in the 1850s and 1860s beyong Rugby School, and it evolved into Rugby Union and Rugby League, as well as Amercan Football in the USA and Canada. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Birthplace_of_Rugby_-_Rugby_School,_Rugby
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