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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Serie: In A Day For Dummies
- Sprache: Englisch
If you get a big kick out of rugby but still feel you could sharpen up your knowledge of the game, Rugby Rules in a Day For Dummies is for you. Inside you'll find easy-to-understand advice on the basic rules of the game, pitch positions, and tactics. In less than a day, readers will find all they need to know to get understand the sport of rugby: * Features an in-depth look at Laws that form the beautiful game * Covers all the reader will need to know about talking tactics * Is perfect for anyone looking at swatting up on rugby
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Rugby Union Basics In A Day For Dummies®
Table of Contents
Rugby Union Basics In A Day For Dummies®
by Nick Cain and Greg Growden
Rugby Union Basics In A Day For Dummies®
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Introduction
Thousands of people around the world are passionate about rugby union, and nowhere more than in the British Isles, where the game originated. For the uninitiated, rugby union and its rules may seem like they came from another planet where the inhabitants speak a strange language and talk about things called scrums, rucks, mauls and lineouts. All these strange words, the laws that govern the game, the positions of the players on the field and what they’re supposed to do can easily overwhelm the beginner.
That’s why we created Rugby Union Basics In A Day For Dummies – so that beginners can get to know the game quickly and easily, without ever feeling overwhelmed or intimidated.
What You Can Do in a Day
As part of the In A Day For Dummies series, we designed this book to contain about a day’s reading. After spending a day with this fine publication, you’ll have solid understandings of the rugby union basics – the scoring system; the laws that govern the game; the players, their positions and their responsibilities on the pitch. You’ll be able to watch rugby union and understand the flow of the game.
Foolish Assumptions
Don’t feel intimidated if you know nothing about rugby union. Some players even have difficulty remembering things like the laws, so never worry that you’re a rugby dummy – we certainly don’t think that you are!
You may have been watching a game and asked
Why are all those players grabbing each other around the waist and then charging at each other like stampeding rhinos?
Why does the referee keep waving his arms around?
Why are the players standing in a straight line and jumping for the ball?
Why is a hooker called a hooker?
What is a ruck and what is a maul?
This book answers these questions – in a day.
Icons Used in This Book
To help your navigation through this book, keep an eye out for the icons, the little pictures that sit in the margin. They guide you to particular types of information. This list tells you what the icons in this book mean.
This icon highlights tips and snippets of advice that can help you, whether you aim to become a better player, a better coach, a better spectator – or all three.
Paragraphs with this icon attached contain information that is especially useful to remember.
You won’t see this icon often, but, when you do, take heed, because it indicates areas that may cause concern.
This icon indicates that a technical discussion is under way. You can skip this information if you want to, because you don’t need it to get an understanding of the basics. If you do read it, though, your rugby expertise goes up a few notches.
Whenever you see this icon, you find an explanation of rugby terms that helps you understand just what is going on in the game.
When you see this icon, we’re suggesting an exercise that you can do yourself in no more than five minutes.
This icon indicates that more information is available on the book’s companion website at www.dummies.com/go/inaday/rugbyunionbasics.
Chapter 1
Rudimentary Rugby
In This Chapter
Making sense of what’s happening on the field
Understanding the basics of the game
Going global: rugby from coast to coast and pole to pole
Why do hundreds of thousands of fans around the world follow 15 players and an oval ball on a field of grass as if the world would end if they missed one pass or kick? Because they’re hooked on rugby union, a game of passion that is full of action, excitement, beauty, unpredictable movements and drama. When played by the best exponents of the game on earth, rugby union satisfies the soul like nothing else.
What’s in a Name?
The game gets its name from Rugby, a town in England’s Midlands, where it was first played at Rugby School. The legend goes that in 1823 a schoolboy by the name of William Webb Ellis first picked the ball up in the middle of a football game and ran with it, thereby breaking the old rules and setting a precedent for the entirely distinct game of rugby.
The game developed when students from Rugby took the sport to other schools, and from there university undergraduates at Cambridge and Oxford took it up. After many rough and tumble years, it was gradually refined into a game suitable for the plucky sort of chaps who played a significant role in the British Empire.
Rugby quickly spread throughout the English-speaking world. The first national union was established in England when the Rugby Football Union was formed in 1871, although clubs had existed as early as 1839 at the University of Cambridge. The first club established in the southern hemisphere was in Australia, at the University of Sydney in the 1860s. Rugby union is now played worldwide, from countries such as France and Japan to minnows like Barbados, Guam and Kazakhstan.
Take a look at the book’s companion website (at www.dummies.com/go/inaday/rugbyunionbasics) for more facts that might surprise you about the game.
Breaking up: Rugby union and rugby league
Many people still believe that rugby union and rugby league are the same game. Not so. Rugby union is vastly different to rugby league, even though league derives from the union game.
Rugby league came about when players and officials became disillusioned with the attitude of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the English national union that, in the nineteenth century, effectively ruled the sport, and decided to break away and form their own code. RFU officials were determined to keep their game strictly for amateurs.
And, up until the 1990s, so it was – rugby union was a strictly amateur game. Rugby league has always been a professional game where players are openly paid. Over the years, rugby union players have signed for rugby league clubs, lured by big contracts, actions that at the time meant they were barred from their former sport. Since the mid-1990s, however, rugby union is also professional and players can play openly for both codes. The result is a role-reversal in the transfer market, with many more rugby league players crossing over to sign more lucrative rugby union contracts than vice versa.
Noting the differences between the two codes
Even though the league game is derived from rugby union, the two rugby codes have different laws. Some main differences between the two codes are as follows:
Rugby union has 15 players in a team and rugby league has 13.
Rugby union has lineouts; rugby league doesn’t.
Rugby union has unlimited tackles, whereas rugby league has six tackles, after which the ball is handed to the opposition.
In rugby union, a tackled player must let go of the ball; whereas in league, a tackled player can retain possession.
