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Tag RugbyEquipment: Space:Number of participants: Duration:Context:According to sports writer Terry Godwin, writing in 1983, tag rugby was frst developed in

Gibraltar by the Gibraltar Rugby Union !ue to the lac" o# grass pitches, an alternative

variant to rugby union was developed A 1$ inch cord was tuc"ed into the waistband, and its

re%oval by an opponent with a shout o# &tag&, was classed as a 'tac"le'

(e can consider the beginning o# the Rugby on 18)3 The tradition says that (illia% (ebb

*llis, an student at the +ollege o# Rugby, a city #ro% the west o# *ngland, with the purpose o#

disobeying the rules o# #ootball-, too" the ball with his hands and carried it to the rivals. goal

and scoring in a %edieval #ootball- %atch

!i/erent cultures #ro% all around the *arth had ga%es where the players held a ball with

their hands and had to carry it out to a goal or through a bigger structure The %utual

in0uence o# these ga%es is dicult to deter%ine 2o%e o# the% are the po"tapo" #ro% the

4aya 5eople 67$$ b + called tlachtli by the Atecs, the "e%ari #ro% the :apanese 6)$$3$$

a +, the linao #ro% the 4apuche 5eople, the epis"yros #ro% the Gree"s and the harpastu%

#ro% the Ro%ans

Development:•  Tag rugby, or 0ag rugby, is a noncontact tea% ga%e in which each player wears a belt

that has two velcro tags attached to it, or shorts with velcro patches

• Attac"ing players atte%pt to dodge, evade and pass a rugby ball while de#enders

atte%pt to prevent the% scoring by &tagging& ; pulling a velcro attached tag #ro% the

ball carrier, rather than a #ull contact tac"le

Rules:•

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