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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/female-rugby-players-tackle-sterotypes/">Female rugby players tackle stereotypes</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM by Amanda Black</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Rugby aficionados debate when and where the game originated; medieval chroniclers documented games of football (to North Americans football = soccer) between different villages in Western Europe, where men would do anything possible, including carrying the ball, to beat out their rivals (“Origins of Rugby”).&nbsp; William Fitzstephen, a monk, documented the first game in London in 1175 (“Origins of Rugby”). According to a popular legend, a man named William Webb Ellis, while at Rugby School (one of England’s oldest public schools, established in 1567), showed “a fine disregard” for the football rules and subsequently took the ball in his arms - effectively inventing the game we now call Rugby.&nbsp; Although the Old Rugbian Society disregarded this story after an investigation in 1895, the legend still resonates for many (“Rugby Football”). Rugby steadily gained popularity and fans over the years, especially…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/female-rugby-players-tackle-sterotypes/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/female-rugby-players-tackle-sterotypes/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/female-rugby-players-tackle-sterotypes/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/female-rugby-players-tackle-sterotypes/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a><br /><br /> </P>