Rugby is a globally popular sport played competitively from the youth-level up to nations and countries competing amongst each other for the world cup. It is played in teams of 15 at a time split into two categories, your forwards and your backs. Your forwards are generally your bigger, more powerful players who do the more physical labor such as scrums, rucks And tackling. Your backs have the ability to ruck and tackle but what sets them apart is Scrums. As your forwards bind into a scrum your backs form a line in anticipation of your team recovering the ball and passing it off in attempts to create a play or bust through the defense for progress of the ball and a try.

Unlike Football rugby isn't separated into quarters but instead it's separated with two halves of play. These sessions of play are consistent and not paused after the tackle has been made unless there is either a penalty or the ball was hit out of bounds. Rugby games are monitored by one referee known as the "sir" with the assistant of touch judges whose main responsibility is to mark where and if the ball is knocked out of bounds.
Rugby in America isn't quite a nation's pass time but the spreading influence is definately noticeable. More and more highschool teams are being created and major colleges are beginning to host teams and compete for national titles. there is a division premiere which is basically ran by BYU and So. California. Bears. below that you have your normal division 1, 2, and so on. our Local college Davenport has one 15 games in a row including last years season and championship, and has been very dominate this year beating all there teams with an average of 60 points per game, and only allowing and average of 9.