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According to legend the sport of rugby football began in 1823 when William Webb Ellis, a student of Rugby School, in a game of football picked up the ball and ran with it. Various types of football had been played in the preceeding centuries

but the first clubs were formed and rules codified in the mid-eighteenth century.

http://www.rugby.com.au/news/five_rugby_legends_inducted_into_hall_of_fame,37776.html