By William Webb Ellis who was an English Anglican clergyman who is famous for being the alleged inventor of Rugby at Rugby School in the latter end of 1823 when he was about 15 years old.
Rugby
It was first developed in the town of Rugby at Rugby School. Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, in the West Midlands of England.
Rugby is an English sport, developed at Rugby School, also played by the French
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Football is older. Rugby was developed by Webb Ellis as a result from him picking up the ball and putting it in the goal with his hands
There were first developed in the UK in Rugby where the school reputed to be the starting point is based.
The formalised written rules where created and issued on August 28th 1845. The game then developed from this point as "Rugby Football".
Excluding the league code as this is technically a variant as it was developed out of the Union code Touch rugby Tag Severns womens youth these are the basic recognised versions
When the concept was taken to the Southern Hemisphere by settlers from the UK and Europe the game was embraced and developed from there.
Rugby football developed from a version of football played at Rugby School and was originally one of several versions of football played at English public schools during the 19th century.