the speed of the game has increased and the game has became much more technical. It isn't like the old days where people just whacked each other.
The first Rugby Club was started Edinburgh, in 1824, by John Hope. There are problems with the first start of Rugby clubs because there was one started in 1839 (undocumented).
Dan carter was 28 when he first started playing rugby.
1823 in Rugby School Warwichshire England
The game started circa 1850 when immigrants from the UK started playing matches between groups however, the first rugby match to be played in New Zealand took place in Nelson in May 1870, between Nelson College and Nelson Football Club
1871 was the first international between Scotland and England, the rugby rule book was written in 1870 by the rugby school
The union code started in 1872 and was introduced by British merchants - league came in 1895
He started his rugby career while at Western Heights high school, Rotoura as a first 15 player in the 1973/1974 season
He played rugby for the local Kurow rugby club as a youngster, but it was not until 1994, when he boarded at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin, that he started to take the game seriously.
in 1871 between Enland and Scotland - Scotland won
Scotland are one of the first nations to play Rugby Union, indeed the first ever international match was between Scotland and England. However, Rugby was invented in 1876 in England. Scotland did invent Rugby sevens though, the shorter version of the game in Melrose in 1883.
The first formal club was created in 1862. There are records of games undertaken between towns and informal clubs before that but these were mainly between those immigrants who were starting to populate the country from rugby playing Europe.
at a rugby venue