One day, in 1823, the pupils at a famous school in Rugby, England, were playing in a football match. The game was in full swing and of course everyone was running and kicking the ball. Then one of the players broke the rules. William Webb Ellis was running when someone passed the ball to him, but Ellis didn’t kick the ball, he jumped up and caught it in his hands! His opponents were chasing him but he ran like the wind with the ball in his hands until he got to the goal. The spectators were cheering wildly and everyone agreed that Ellis’s controversial technique was incredibly exciting. The teams decided to make a new set of rules for a new ball game and rugdy football was born. Was this genius or serendipity?!