Rugby Opening Statement

Due to being part of Loyola Women’s Rugby club for my entire collegial career I thought I had a full and collective understanding of both the communities of Loyola’s team and rugby in general. But even from the first few classes of the engage learning class of Anthropology 361 we focused on the linguistic styles, terms and usage that shape and form in a community and I was struck with how much I had taken for grant in regards to the linguistic style of Loyola Women’s rugby.

When most people think of rugby they usually do not automatically think about values and social issues. In reality, rugby is directly connected to many simple yet important values and social issues in the world today. Rugby is not a very popular sport in the United States, as it is overshadowed by sports such as football and basketball. Rugby is an intense game, similar to football, played without pads and helmets, in which players are scrambling to keep control of the always live ball and score points. The University of Oklahoma, like many large universities has a men’s rugby club team. As a whole the team values hard work and perseverance on and off the field in connection to health and exercise in a world of declining health.

South american has many sports, different and similar. In South America they play rugby. Rugby is a game played with two teams each consisting of fifteen players.each team can carry pass or kick the ball to score as many points as possible. The team scoring the greater number of points is the winner of the mach. The teams play two forty minute halves with a five minute half time. One referee controls the match with assistance of two judges there are no timeouts except at the refs discretion where he can allow a one minute time out for an injured player to decide whether he can play or not. The game begins with a kickoff witch is taken at the center of the field. The team with the ball makes every effort to score a try. A try is scored when

It was a normal Friday night. The date was September 5, 2014, and I was playing in the football game, against the Spirit Lake Indians. We were playing great and hanging in with one of the very best teams in the state of Iowa in class 2A I had a few catches in the game, but little did I know that one catch in the second quarter right before halftime would be the last catch I had for the entire 2014 football season.

Rugby is a team sport played on a field. There are three main forms of rugby rugby league, rugby union and sevens. This paper will focus primarily on elements that they have in common. For the first two forms, there are thirteen players on the field for each team. A game is eighty minutes long and is divided into two halves of continuous action.

Imagine it is a Friday night underneath the lights, in October, and you are walking into a stadium packed with fans cheering. But the only noise you can hear is the sound of your cleats hitting the pavement as you are marching up to the field, and the only thing you see is the other team and the end zone. It is such a stimulating feeling, it is unforgettable. Now, you may think I am talking about an American football game, but I am not. I am talking about a rugby match. Believe it or not, football derived from rugby. Differences are in rugby, there are no pads, the ball does not have laces, fifteen men to a side, and above all else, it is an international sport and it is safe compared to football. How come

Before starting my investigative process, I first wanted to look at the historical content of the sport. It is believed that rugby was born in 1823 when William Webb Ellis “with fine disregard for the rules of football (note that football was yet split into various codes) as played in his time at Rugby school, first took the ball in his arm and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game” (“Rugby Football History” n.p.). Although Ellis’s story is just a belief, the majority of the population agrees on the view. Webb Ellis is still remembered as the

1. Rugby is a huge part of our culture. People wear the team 's colour black when supporting them on match days, retailers dress in theme and decorate their stores, the catholic priest at my mother 's church even says a prayer at mass to bless them with success. We believe we have the greatest rugby team in the world and fortunately have established that as victors of the last two world cups, but if we lose it hurts us hard and we fall into mourning. The attitudes of people can be quite severe on the match referees when calls aren 't made in our favour.

Precise technique, quick decision-making, and strong instincts are all essential qualities in a good rugby player. The sport takes countless hours of practicing, studying game film, and mental toughness to excel in this tough sport. These lessons that I have learned from this sport are the same lessons that make me a viable candidate for the Pace University ABSN program and will allow me to become a great nurse.

Hurling is believed to be the worlds oldest and fastest paced sport in history. Its roots have prehistoric origins and have been played for over 3,000 years, even older than recorded history of Ireland, which is its national game of play. The history itself of hurling is longer than the Bible and often unclear. Nonetheless hurling is an incredible sport full of rich history and a truly rigorous sport.

Rugby is a very physically demanding sport and in recent years has changed from being considered a contact sport to a collision sport where players wear little or next too no protective accessories meaning many people know the game to be very physical and very violent this could also be due to the game having a whole number of changes in its laws and regulations in order for

Rugby is very important to us. It is a core part of kiwi culture and plays an important role. In Europe, everyone plays soccer (or, should I say, football). In Japan, its baseball. But here, it is definitely rugby.

Rugby union, or simply Rugby, is a full contact team sport, a form of football which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball, outdoors on a level field, usually with a grass surface,

Since the spring of my sophomore year, I have been tasked with leading a true motley crew. By others this crew is called the Edina Rugby Club; however, I think of each and every one one of these young men as brothers. Without the sport of rugby, I would not have had the great fortune of meeting so many teammates of different distinctive personalities, backgrounds and ethnicity. There are kids from the high school band to the math club to the varsity football team who make up this crew. Given the responsibility to lead these young men, I have grown as a teammate and also as a human being. I have developed the ability to respect everyone, regardless of who they are, where they are from, and what they believe in. I learn from these young men and let them teach me different things about each of their cultures that without rugby I might never have learned. When I consider each teammate, despite different ethnicities and backgrounds, I see that they are no different than me. I have learned to respect people not for where they come from or what they believe in, but for who they are and how they conduct themselves as a young man. With that being said, I still have the utmost respect for each individual's personal beliefs and history. However, as a leader I feel that if we can get by the stereotypical norms of categorizing people we will find ourselves not only having greater success as leaders but as a society as a whole. Ultimately, those who lead are responsible for teaching the

A Rugby team consists of 15 players, divided into forwards and backs. Forwards are often larger and stronger players of the team having their main job to win the possession of the ball. The backs are usually smaller, faster,