Rugby Codes

The football codes that descend from the game of Rugby School, in which an oval ball is carried, passed and kicked and points are scored by grounding the ball over the line or kicking it between the posts. Rugby union and rugby league share a common origin but differ in team size, tackle rules and how play restarts. Every sport filed in this group belongs to the Football Codes category and has its own entry in the Sport and Games Atlas, from which a reader can follow links on to its leading athletes, its competitions and the governing bodies that set its rules.