Origin of Rugby:

Some of these games still exist in the United Kingdom to this day:

• Alnwick in Northumberland: the game survives and begins with the Duke of Northumberland dropping a ball from the battlements of Alnwick Castle.
• Ashbourne in Derbyshire (known as Royal Shrovetide Football)
• Atherstone in Warwickshire
• Corfe Castle in Dorset The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
• Haxey in Lincolnshire (the Haxey Hood, actually played on Epiphany)
• Hurling the Silver Ball takes place at St Columb Major in Cornwall: A "Town against Country" match takes place on Shrove Tuesday and a return match is played the following Saturday. Another version of Cornish Hurling takes place at St Ives this game used to involve men who lived at the top of town against those at the bottom end. Now days it is a much gentler version for children only. This version takes place on Feast Monday, normally February.
• Sedgefield in County Durham
• Workington in Cumbria has a game between teams named the Uppies and Downies
• In Scotland the Ba game ("Ball Game") is still popular around Christmas and Hogmanay at:
  • Duns, Berwickshire
  • Scone, Perthshire
  • Kirkwall, Orkney

The 2010 Six Nations Rugby Championship, known as the 2010 RBS 6 Nations due to the tournament’s sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, will be the 11th series of the Six Nations Championship.

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