Rugby is a settlement in Morgan County, Tennessee which has a population of around 85. It is situated at 36° 21' north 84° 42' west.
Rugby is about 15km ESE of Jamestown and 30km SW of Oneida. It is about 90km NW of Knoxville. It lies at the junction of three counties and part of it is in Scott County, Tennessee.
The settlement was founded in 1880 by British author Thomas Hughes, who was most famous for writing the novel Tom Brown's School Days. It was named for Rugby, England where Hughes had attended Rugby School, the institution which furnishes the setting for the book.
Rugby was set up in part as a community for the younger sons of the English gentry, because they were not the oldest, would inherit little or no property. Rugby was an experiment in utopian living, although the settlement only flourished for a short while. About half the original buildings, many in Ruskiniangothic revival style, survive and have been restored.
Today, the area's natural beauty, historic architecture, and seasonal festivals attract a brisk tourist trade. A program to repopulate the town to something like its peak of 200-300 residents has also been begun, with a limited amount of new residential construction being permitted.
Rugby is a market town in the county of Warwickshire in central England on the River Avon.
Rugby is located 13 miles (21 km) east of Coventry, on the eastern edge of Warwickshire, near the borders with Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
The modern town of Rugby is an amalgamation of the original town with the former villages of Bilton, Hillmorton, Brownsover and Newbold-on-Avon which were incorporated into Rugby in 1932 when the town became a borough; all except Brownsover still have their former village centres.
Rugby and Rugby School - Let's begin at the beginning.
The Early History and formation of the Northern California Rugby Union - Compiled by Dan Hickey, I include this well-written article here because it describes the early days of U.S. rugby and the part Northern Californians played in the 1924 Olympics, when the U.S. won a gold medal in rugby.
The rugby "cap" - Since I can't have you be ignorant of basic rugby terminology...
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