...inscription reads: This Stone Commemorates the Exploit of WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS Who With a Fine Disregard of the Rules of Football, as Played in His Time, First...It, Thus Originating the Distinctive Feature of the The Rugby Game AD 1823 With this new concept, the game has evolved to bowl games, top-20 polls, TV...

...expressed on the stone commemorating the exploit at Rugby College of William Webb Ellis, when, in 1823, he 'first took the ball in his arms and ran with it,...thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game'.72 The 'iconoclastic' impulse that we have examined indeed made of this disregard a necessity...

...Marketers," USA Today, January 25, 2001, IB. 5. The full text is, "THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR...THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME AD 1823" (Riesman and Denny, "Football in America," 308). 6. Allison Danzig, The History of American Football:...

...commemorative stone at Rugby reads as follows: THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS 73 WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL,...THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME AD 1823 3 Walter Camp and Lorin F. Deland, Football (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1896). 4 Cf., his An Outline...

...found that "commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who, with a fine disregard tor the rules oí football as played in his time, first took the ball...the distinctive feature of the Rugby game AD 1823." Arnold actually "cared little for sports and had no faith in them as ethical inculcators" (Guttman,...

...conclusions: ^-v* THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT Or WILLIAM WEBB ELDS WHO WITH A FINE BISRECARO FOR THE RULES Of FOOTBALL AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RON WITH IT THUS ORIGINATING THF DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUCBY CAME. AD 1825. Plate 6.1 The source...

...Christian, full of pluck but charmingly oblivious to the restrictive traditions of his society, Ellis in his "fine disregard for the rules of football, as played in his time" was a romantic hero in the Tom Brown vein' ('William Webb Ellis', p. 125). 7 1 Hutchins, Don Bradman,...

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...believed that in 1823 he picked up a football and "with fine disregard for the rules of the sport, took the ball in his arms and ran with it", thus originating the game's distinctive handling feature. However, there seems to be little factual evidence to support...

...Close there is a tablet erected with the following inscription: This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for...the distinctive feature of the Rugby game. AD 1823. From this, one would be led to believe that before that date the game was unknown. To a certain extent...