DCHP-1 Online

rugby

• n. a distinctive Canadian variety of football developed in the late nineteenth century from English rugby or rugger.

  See also: rugby-football (and note)  

  • 1898  He was . . . the prince of half-backs on the Rugby field. . . .
  • 1916  None but a cynical materialist could make odious comparisons more odious between these two great colleges--particularly in the matter of either revenues or rugby.
  • 1966  The West adopted the forward pass and used it before the Canadian Rugby Union legalized it. . . .