{"id":4669,"date":"2011-02-14T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:45:11","slug":"rugby-and-soccer-once-had-nearly-the-same-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/rugby-and-soccer-once-had-nearly-the-same-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby and Soccer Once Had Nearly the Same Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rugby-and-soccer-used-to-be.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4670\" title=\"Rugby and soccer used to be near the same\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rugby-and-soccer-used-to-be.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rugby-and-soccer-used-to-be.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Rugby-and-soccer-used-to-be-340x274.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Origin of the World Soccer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Where the Word &#8220;Soccer&#8221; Comes From<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRugby\u201d was also once known as \u201cFootball\u201d and originally had almost the same set of rules as Soccer, though over time increasingly diverged.\u00a0 The name \u201cRugby\u201d comes from Rugby School in England.\u00a0 Legend has it, during a Football match at that school, William Webb Ellis picked up the ball in his hands and ran with it over the goal line.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t count as an official goal, as you weren\u2019t supposed to use your hands; but the referee remarked, it was a \u201cjolly good \u2018try\u2019\u201d, which, according to legend, is where that particular Rugby scoring term comes from.\u00a0 The official Rugby Union was then formed in 1871 with a split in 1893 forming the Rugby League.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Where the Word &#8220;Soccer&#8221; Comes From Text Version \u201cRugby\u201d was also once known as \u201cFootball\u201d and originally had almost the same set of rules as Soccer, though over time increasingly diverged.\u00a0 The name \u201cRugby\u201d comes from Rugby School in England.\u00a0 Legend has it, during a Football match at that school, William Webb [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1247,1111,1246],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-rugby-facts","tag-soccer-facts","tag-sport-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}