BY Thomas Gibb

League Union

The history of rugby league as a

separate form of rugby football goes

back to 1895 in Huddersfield, Northern

England when the Northern Rugby

Football Union broke away from the

established Rugby Football Union to

administer its own competition. Similar

schisms occurred later in Australia and

New Zealand in 1907. The new

governing bodies gradually changed

the rules of their sport, creating a new

professional form of rugby football.

The origin of Rugby is reputed to be an incident

during a game of school soccer at Rugby School in

1823 when William Webb-Ellis is said to have picked

up the ball and run with it. The first set of rules were

written at Rugby School in 1845. A schism in 1895

resulted in the separate code of rugby league, and

Rugby Union

League Union

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5m,

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try

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League Union

League Union

In League after you get tackled

you have to roll the ball under

your legs. Also if your team

gets tackled 6 times than you

have to give the ball to the

other team

In Union after you get tackled you have

to place the ball and your team mates

have to defend it. This is called a ruck.

Guy who got tackled

A maul is similar to a ruck

but the ball is not on the

ground it is in someone's

hand.

Ball

Ball

League Union

Try-4 points

Conversion-2 points

Drop Goal-1 point

Penalty Goal-2 points

Try-5 points

Conversion-2 points

Drop Goal-3 points

Penalty Goal-3 points

League Union

•When tackling someone you are allowed to

shoulder charge them.

•If the player is behind his own 40 metre line

and he kicks the ball out over the oppositions

20 metre line (must bounce in field of play

first) The team that kicked the ball out get a

scrum from where the ball left the field.

•Ripping the ball from the opposition can only

be done in a 1 on 1 tackle.

•When tackling someone you have to use your

arms and you cant shoulder charge.

•There is no 40/20 rule in Union

•Ripping the ball from the opposition can be done

with any amount of people.

40/20 Rule