given that the sport of rugby – both union and league variations – takes its name from the school Webb Ellis attended at the time: Rugby School in Warwickshire. In the 200 years since these ...

Although many have cast doubt on the authenticity of the incident at Rugby School executive headmaster Peter Green insists that the story rings true. "Effectively William Webb Ellis was a pauper a ...

There is no actual evidence that William Webb Ellis "picked up the ball and ran" during a game of football at Rugby School but that has not prevented a legend building up around him. To all ...

"So there was this game of football in Rugby School in 1823 and William Webb Ellis - good old boy, he was - picked up the bloody thing and ran under the posts! "What a shock he gave them, good old ...

According to folklore, William Webb Ellis was the first to carry a football at Rugby School, Warwickshire, in 1823. The school's programme of events will include international matches and an ...

The 2023 edition runs from 8 September to 28 October. There is no actual evidence that William Webb Ellis "picked up the ball and ran" during a game of football at Rugby School but that has not ...

Being a man of the cloth he would probably derive greatest pleasure from Rugby Club Menton Webb-Ellis nurturing their own flock of school children. The amateur club's two co-presidents have ...

The two men had first hung a black jersey on the small fence protecting Webb Ellis's gravestone, where a white Rugby School jersey already hung. But, at the end of July 2023, Gilli witnessed an ...

have also developed close ties with Rugby School. The prestigious private establishment in central England is where Webb-Ellis is said to have first taken the ball in his hands. "The Webb-Ellis ...