rugby

With the UEFA finals coming up in a few days I thought it would be fun to put this out there - your challenge is to build an all-encompassing game called 'football', uniting soccer with rugby with gridiron with whatever else. Is it possible to combine the soccer format with the rugby format, or...

To preface when I refer to Rugby, I am talking about Rugby Union, and not Rugby League, mainly because outside of British Columbia, Canada played its own form of Rugby which differed from the two. Either way, a type of Rugby Football was played in Canada since at least the 1860s, and was the...

Hey folks, an idea I've toyed with for years, seeing if there is interest in following such a TL or in collaboration. Would cover the entire origins and development of Canadian Rugby/Canadian football, with the major POD being the 1929 season. For those of you who dont know, this is the first...

THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONALISM IN RUGBY Part 1: The only sane choice... At the end of the 19th century, the sport of rugby was on the brink of a civil war. https://rainbowdesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/RFU-logo.png Founded by 22 influential clubs from Southern England on 26 January...

hey there sports fans! so many timelines involving the USA being more interested in sports like soccer and rugby have almost the same POD: American football being banned by teddy Roosevelt in 1903. while it's all fun and dandy, not to mention very cliche...this time, let's ask ourselves the...

In 1905, after a season that saw 18 college players killed and more than 150 seriously injured, Pressident Theodore Roosevelt demanded that game's rules be changed or he would ban it. Let's say instead of 18 players killed it's 36, and Roosevelt just bans the sport on all college campuses...