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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

10 Origin Stories of Famous Sports...#7

Rugby supposedly got its start in 1876 when 16-year-old William Webb Ellis was playing soccer at the Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, and he picked up the ball and ran with it. Unfortunately, the story can’t be true because Ellis died in 1872, four years before he was credited with inventing... Sign in to see full entry.

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