Rugby school

Rugby school football and descendants

These codes have in common the ability of players to carry the ball with their hands, and to throw it to teammates, unlike association football where the use of hands is prohibited by anyone except the goal keeper. They also feature various methods of scoring based upon whether the ball is carried into the goal area, or kicked through a target.

Rugby footballRugby unionMini rugby a variety for children.Rugby sevens and Rugby tens – variants for teams of reduced size.

Rugby sevens; Fiji v Wales at the2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne

Rugby league – often referred to simply as “league”, and usually known simply as “football” or “footy” in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.Rugby league sevens and Rugby league nines – variant for teams of reduced size.Beach rugby – rugby played on sandTouch rugby – generic name for forms of rugby football which do not feature tackles,one variant has been formalizedTag Rugby – non-contact variant in which a flag attached to a player is removed to indicate a tackle.Gridiron footballAmerican football – called “football” in the United States and Canada, and “gridiron” in Australia and New Zealand.Nine-man football, eight-man football,six-man football – variants played primarily by smaller high schools that lack enough players to field full teams.Street football/backyard football – played without equipment or official fields and with simplified rulesTouch football – non-tackle variants