Rugby football is a style of football that refers to two current sports, rugby league and rugby union. Although these twodistinctive forms of rugby share the same general rules and the same objective, namely, getting the ball over the line to score a try, the specific rules for the two forms are different.
Rugby football developed from a version of football played at Rugby School and was one of several versions of football played at English public schools during the 19th century.[1]