GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -William Webb Ellis, Clergyman and alleged Inventor of Rugby Football 1806-1872. William Webb Ellis was born in Lancashire and attended Rugby School, where it is alleged that he was responsible for inventing the game of rugby football, i.e. changing a game of football from a kicking game to a handling game.

Detailed explanation-2: -As rugby aficionados would know, the name of the game derives from a place – Rugby, in Warwickshire, Britain. The town’s name originates in the Anglo Saxon Hrōca burh. The first element is either the man’s name Hroca or the Old English hroc (“rook”) while “burh” is Old English for “fortified settlement”.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the sport’s lore, in 1823 William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, defied the conventions of the day (that the ball may only be kicked forward) to pick up the ball and run with it in a game, thus creating the distinct handling game of rugby football.