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  1. Rugby is a contact sport that originated at 
  2. Rugby School, England, 1823 when a boy, 
  3. William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball and 
  4. ran with it while playing football (now 
  5. soccer). Rugby is played with an oval ball. 
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  7. Subject by: Vince Pike
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