Rugby Opening Statement

Rugby requires skill, strength, and strategy. Players spend 80 minutes pretending they’re not hurt, whereas soccer players spend 90 minutes pretending they are hurt in an attempt to draw fouls. In Rugby a small 5’6’’ player is just as important as a 6’5’’ gargantuan. People may have heard of Rugby before or even witnessed a game, but do they really know what it is and how it’s played? My interest for this topic came to me during my first semester at the University of Kansas, when I realized a club team on the rise. A few of my pledge bothers recently got involved in the rugby club and have started appreciating the sport. Rugby is a sport that consists of a team with a mission to score more points than the other, with a similar football feel. My process is to analyze the game of rugby at the University of Kansas and develop a greater understanding of rugby, how it’s organized, and how it’s played.

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

I would paint “she believed she could, so she did” on the Beta Bridge. It is a message of encouragement for girls and women that my mom shared with me during a big transition for our family. We lived in Charlottesville for fourteen years and moved to Vermont before my freshman year of high school. I was upset about the move - leaving great friends, familiar schools and terrific tennis in Virginia. I took next steps each day, meeting new friends, registering for classes and trying out for varsity tennis. I did well in school and made the tennis team, starting in doubles and singles my freshman year and then winning three consecutive team state championships. I trained outside of school and participated in USTA tournaments, working to the number one ranking for USTA 18s in Vermont. What seemed like a setback after middle school turned into learning opportunities for believing in myself, navigating new circumstances and training to win.

Major Rugby Union playing countries are Australia, England, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales.

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

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.

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.

Social relationships, our most fundamental life challenge that determines our success in life, is not a relatively easy conquest for most people. When people encounter deeply problematic social issues within their journey throughout life, adversity and vexed responses later strain and tax one’s focus on life. While I may not have been blessed with the natural ability to establish social connections with others, my experience of cultivating a whole new persona through sports has propelled me into the daring, confident person who is able to culminate new friends in all unfamiliar situations.

    To briefly describe the game, it consists of two competing teams, each team is compiled of 15 players, the objective of the game is to carry, pass or kick the ball to an area called the endzone. The game lasts 80 minutes,  played on the course of two halves, each lasting 40 minutes with a 5 minute break seperating them.

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.

I was dreaming of becoming a rugby player. A game that is commonly favored by boys or men. When I look around and hear people talking and cheering. This makes me drive in or motivates me to be more interested in playing rugby. When I hear people cheering, I imagine what would it be like if it was me they are cheering. So I decided to play rugby. What brings me into this is just seeing how we have this greatness and strength I ourselves, specially referring to myself, I’m quite amazed of having this factor in sports.

`Authors Note: I am upset because my favorite team in football, the Dallas Cowboys, has lost their last game against the Green Bay Packers with a final score of 35 to 31. The Cowboys had a chance in the dying minutes of the game to score and win the game. This fanfiction is going to be a bizarre twist on the of the last two minutes of the game with the commentators' speech. The commentators' names are Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. I am also going to change the magnitude of the game to the winner goes to the Super Bowl so this is the NFC Championship game.

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

It’s a Sunday afternoon and in most American homes, you will find their favorite football team playing on their TV. Its an American tradition that’s been around for almost 100 years, filled with hard hits and big plays. As for countries other than the USA, you can watch the teams on the TV but if they want to catch a game in person they’d have to get a passport and make their way over to the USA. Luckily, there isn’t a need for them to do this if they want to see some hard hits and big plays, they can watch their favorite rugby team, which are all over the world.