Rugby league

English, the word “invictus” means undefeated. This book’s main goal was to show how unity is undefeated. John Carlin’s book Invictus details the story of Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid rule. More interestingly, this book explains how he used rugby to win the fight. Apartheid rule was the separation of people by race in South Africa. This prevented a lot of the black population in South Africa from having the same opportunities as the white people. Black South Africans were not…

how empowered I feel now. HH and I belonged to the same organization, well known as The League. I am still a part of it, HH is not due to his struggles with confidentiality and integrity. But enough of that for now, we will revisit the topic another time. As for my journey, now that is one you want to hear, so keep reading my friends because you are in for a treat. But first you must remember one thing, the league must never know that I am allowing…

directed by Clint Eastwood, produced by Warner Brothers 2009, and includes Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. (Invictus) The movie starts out by looking at a rugby field and a soccer field, that are separated by a road. One thats healthy looking and has men practicing rugby, and the other one was a run-down field, with teenage black boys playing soccer on it. Nelson Mandela drove by, and the black teens started chanting, “Mandela! Mandela!” Then it shifts to…

Have you ever wondered how the sport football began? In 1869 the sport rugby was popular in colleges around the world. People would play the sport rugby and they played it a lot. But in the sport of rugby the people would get hurt because they played with no pads on the players. In 1880, a rugby player from Yale University, named Walter Camp changed the rules of rugby and transformed it into American football. Walter camp is known as “the father of football”, he was apart of the group called…

alone. Since the Spring box lost the captain wanted the team to taste defeat by drinking horrible beer to teach them a lesson. Mandela invites the captain over and wants the team to teach others how to play rugby. Later the Spring box went to clinics to teach the black children to play rugby. The team also went to Mandela’s jail cell to see where he lived for 27 years. Later during the movie, Mandela’s guards noticed Mandela was on the ground passed out, when he was…

Invictus and Mandela: “Is it Hollywood or is it History?” Have you ever watched a film that is supposedly “based on a true story” and wondered how much of it was actually true and what part was made up? Whether it be a horror film or an influential story, when they say that is inspired by a true event it always grabs your attention and has you wondering more. I thought of this as I was watching the movie Invictus and wondered if most of it had really happened. In this research paper I will…

It was so popular, the king of England banned the game to protect more traditional sports like soccer. Football didn’t start to have any rules until it was played in England in the early 1800’s. One school in England played football differently, Rugby school. They ran with the ball and inserted goal posts into the game. You could not pass the ball forward though. The first ever American…

The first thing to know about football is how it became the most famous sport in America. In America NFL (the National Football League) is considered the highest point in football. When you talk NFL history, January 12, 1969, needs to be high on the list. That's the day Joe Namath's New York Jets of the AFL upset the mighty Baltimore Colts of the NFL. This was the first AFL-NFL championship that was referred to as the Super Bowl, the name coming from Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt after…

The football that we see in the National Football League (NFL) is the same as the Canadian Football League (CFL), but with different teams and rules. In the NFL, a team has four chances to get a first down (getting the ball ten yards), but in the CFL they only get three chances. Not only is the amount of downs different, but so are the amount of players on the field. In the NFL, there are eleven players on the field, opposed to the CFL, where there are twelve! In the CFL, they can fit twelve…

bring them together, creating a significant portion of any community or country’s cultural identity. That statement holds especially true here in Australia, and is extremely evident in one of the more popular sports in the country—The National Rugby League. In this paper I will describe my experience at a NRL match between the Sydney Roosters and South Central Rabbitohs and how those clubs have strong relations to their respective communities. Upon arriving at Allianz Stadium, the home of the…