DCHP-2

rugby-football DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

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

  See also: football  

  • Rugby football, often rugby at the popular level, has, except among some older Canadians, gradually been displaced since the 1930's by the characteristically American term football, the Canadianism being confined largely to official league titles.