There was even a bounty scandal earlier this year involving a high school rugby team.
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But Cardiff had faced a significant challenge for this award from Wales' Grand Slam-winning rugby team.
The Clint Eastwood-directed film also stars Matt Damon as the head of South Africa's rugby team.
But Mr Higgins said Mr Nicklinson also enjoyed the social life of the rugby team.
Truro City Football Club and the Cornish Pirates rugby team have both been involved with the study.
So, on a whim of insanity I tried out for the college rugby team... and made it.
The Irish rugby team and boxing in Ireland were both successful examples of sports leaving sectarian differences behind.
The young Terre'Blanche stood out among his small-town peers, leading both the school rugby team and its debating club.
There is the possibility that the city's football team, Newport County, will be asked to ground-share with the rugby team.
Mike Catt, the English rugby team's fly-half, grew up in South Africa.
He said while back in Wales he had spent some time with the Welsh rugby team and was a big fan of Williams.
And he arrived in London just in time to watch his rugby team succumb to England on home soil for the first time.
At the moment I'm just appointed head coach to get the rugby team going, and that's my main aim in the whole thing.
The trip will be the fourth the Wales national rugby team have made to Argentina, but some Welshmen have previously played rugby in Patagonia.
The 1993 film Alive tells the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed to the ground in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
Full-back Evans is also set to add to her 75 caps for the Welsh women's rugby team when they appear in next month's World Cup.
Almost half the population of Wales watched the national rugby team beat France to win the Six Nations Grand Slam on TV, BBC figures show.
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He too praised Welsh Olympians and the Grand Slam-winning rugby team.
There was some controversy surrounding his selection to succeed Allan Rogers, but he set about burnishing his Welsh roots: a great-uncle captained the Welsh rugby team.
These include the original loss of the Borders railway in the 1960s, the loss of the Border Reivers professional rugby team and the lack of improvement to local trunk roads.
Since then, he's covered some major sporting events: England winning the Ashes in 2005, the return of the England World Cup Rugby Team in 2003 to their Surrey hotel, the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth, Show jumping at Hickstead, World Championship Darts at Lakeside, Derby Day at Epsom, Tennis at Eastbourne, Farnborough playing at Highbury in the FA Cup, to name a few.
"But our head of PE Jeremy Evans told him he had already signed for a team, but it wasn't a rugby league team!"
Another winger in the team is Rowan Varty, the captain of Hong Kong's rugby sevens team.
In 1996 he became the youngest-ever captain of the British rugby league team at the age of 21 years, four months.
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While playing for his school rugby league team a couple of years ago, he caught the eye of a St Helens coach.
And that is what happened in 2010 when Australian Rugby League team the Melbourne Storm were caught systematically breaking the competition's salary cap.
Racing ended at Odsal - home of the Bradford Bulls rugby league team - in 1997 when the Bradford Dukes left the site due to planned redevelopment.
But Bracewell, who is scheduled to bring the Kiwis on tour here next year, believes England should take a leaf out of the national rugby union team's book.
They are prepared to commit to the passion of supporting a rugby league team carrying the name of their proud region, and there's a television deal in place.
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