Rugby School

The film is fiction while it is based off of a real rugby team and a real coach (Coach Gelwix) who teaches his boys about rugby and about being a man. The film is based off of many experiences Coach Gelwix had and some fictional story to make the movie interesting. The film made 24,000 in gross the first weekend it was out and made around 630,000 gross total. The movie Forever Strong is about a 17-year-old boy Rick Penning who is the star rugby player for his father’s…

Persuasive writing-Rugby Hi I am going to talk you about why I think rugby is the best sport. First I am going to tell you a bit about rugby. The sport of rugby is named after Rugby School, England where the game was first played. The game is said to have been invented in 1823 when William Webb Ellis caught the ball while playing a game of football at school, and ran to the goal with it. Although there is doubt about whether this actually happened, Webb Ellis is still remembered as the…

Schomers life. This place was what introduced her to her biggest passion: Crew. We asked her how she ended up rowing. “It actually was a funny story. Every year I tried to join a new club just to try something different. I even did Rugby. The crew team was actually the only that called me back so I guess it was meant to be.” She pointed out how she was genetically built to be a rower. Nothing could had prepared her for her first experience with the erg. She calls that day intense and…

A major issue that resides within the sphere of college athletics is whether college athletes should or should not be paid while they are attending school. College athletes work hard every day to meet the scholarly standards of their universities. They also strive to keep their level of play at its peak. These college athletes need to be awarded and credited for their achievements. This problem often leads to athletes making poor judgments in accepting money from boosters and others that are…

junior in high school it was my first year in private school, and now I’m a freshman in college. At the beginning of my junior year, I transferred into a private school a week before school started. The only reason for the transfer was to play football and have a better wrestling coach. The public school I attended before transferring did not have a football program and a lack luster wrestling team. The change of pace was incredible from public to private. I was…

young men in a wilderness setting. I am one of the 115 Lone Eagles recognized in the camp’s 85 year history. RUGBY Showed willingness to try new things by joining the team with no prior rugby experience. Competed in the…

Do you imagine a world without sports? No children playing soccer or rugby? No athletes? No physical activity? No competitions? No Olympic Games? To begin with, sports have attracted humans for centuries. They are human physical activities in which persons compete individually or in groups. Physical exercise is good for mind, body and spirit. The Olympic games began in the year 776 B.C, in the Ancient Greece, and they were held in Olympia as a religious festival in honor of Zeus. The first…

Even though this sounds very unfair, it’s the way of life. It how things have been for many years, some kids can pull ahead by working hard and practicing. “Bio-banding is not new. It was first trialled in US high schools as far back as 1908. For years, New Zealand schools have grouped rugby teams according to weight rather than age because Maori and Polynesian children tend to develop faster than their white counterparts”(Para.6 Doward). Sometimes kids are just gifted and can be the best even…

successful national team across the world, and people would definitely not want to miss seeing them play. Their soccer team has won the World Cup four times, in 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006. Every major Italian city has a soccer team, not just in elementary schools, but the major league teams too. Now not many people in America are too keen on watching soccer. Most of it is baseball, football, hockey, or basketball. Something America and Italy have in common is basketball. The second most loved…

Let me start by saying that I find humor in any multimedia or Hollywood portrayal of high school as an amalgamation of divisive and antithetical groups such as the "jocks" and "nerds". Any high school student should agree with me in stating that these depictions greatly elucidate the intricate panoply of student's activities, interests, virtues, appearances, and emotions to an absurd and almost laughable degree. To answer the question bluntly, I do not identify with any of these rudimentary…