rugby
Let an agent explain the rugby codes and their rules, follow competitions and results with sources, support safe participation at all levels, and describe history and governance.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the rugby codes and their rules, follow competitions and results with sources, support safe participation at all levels, and describe history and governance.
A family of team sports played with an oval ball that may be carried, passed backwards and kicked, with scoring by grounding the ball over the goal line or kicking it between posts, comprising rugby union with fifteen players and its sevens variant, rugby league with thirteen, and adapted forms such as wheelchair rugby league, touch, tag and walking rugby, played by men, women and youth under international federations.
What it is for: Oval-ball team sports of the rugby family.
It can be explain codes and rules; follow competitions; support safe participation; describe history and governance.
Distinguishing features
Backward passing
Tries and kicks
Two main codes
Contact and adapted variants
What it looks like
Teams contesting an oval ball on a grass pitch with H-shaped posts.
How it is recognised
Oval ball carried and passed backwards
Union, league and adapted forms
American football allows forward passes; Australian rules uses a different field
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - another sport entry
is related to - the playing field
is related to - the oval ball
In practice
Families and kinds
rugby union
rugby sevens
rugby league
wheelchair rugby league and adapted forms
touch, tag and walking rugby
Standards and regulation
World Rugby and International Rugby League laws of the game
Concussion and player welfare protocols
Anti-doping rules
Failure modes and hazards
Concussion and injury
Confusing the codes
Unsafe participation without training
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand The rugby codes.
Definitions.
Codes
Codes and rules.
Codes
Codes.
- How do rugby union, sevens and rugby league differ in players, rules and scoring? definition
- Which entry fits a specific code? action
Adapted
Adapted forms.
Adapted
Adapted.
- What are wheelchair rugby league, touch, tag and walking rugby, and who plays them? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific variant? action
Follow Competitions.
Practice.
Competitions
Major competitions.
Competitions
Competitions.
- What are the major rugby competitions for men, women and youth, and where are results published? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific competition? action
Watch
Watching and attending.
Watch
Watching.
- How can matches be watched or attended? provenance
- Which entry fits broadcasting? action
Play Playing safely.
Safety.
Start
Getting started.
Start
Starting.
- How can someone start playing rugby at a club, including youth and non-contact options? provenance
- Is someone injured now, needing medical help? boundary
Welfare
Player welfare.
Welfare
Welfare.
- What do federations and medical bodies say about concussion, tackling and player welfare, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral on contested safety debates? boundary
Learn History and governance.
Context.
History
History of rugby.
History
History.
- How did rugby develop and split into union and league, according to historians? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Governance
Governance.
Governance
Governance.
- How is rugby governed internationally and nationally? provenance
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should each code be a separate entry?
- How should competition data be linked?
- How should welfare protocols be linked?