The Jacksonville Jaguars signed receiver Louis Rees-Zammit to their practice squad, the team announced Thursday. Rees-Zammit was one of the top wingers in rugby before entering the NFL’s ...

Standing opposite Donald Imes — a 5-foot-9, 195-pound senior linebacker for the River Ridge High School football team — Kelsi Stockert doesn’t look imposing.

It has recently been proposed that the tackle, an integral part of Rugby Union, be banned in school rugby, as a means to reduce the risk of injury. This proposal held that harmful contact should be ...

The Rugby Football Union is working with schools, clubs and colleges in its continuing determination to make the sport of rugby union as safe as possible for players up to the age of U18. In season ...

Daniels said rugby-style protects his team’s bigger hitters. “We’re trying to teach them a better, more effective way to tackle,” he said. “We’re trying to take care of our strikers.

Well Seahawks coach Pete Carroll has stressed “tackle like a rugby player” during his successful tenure, in which his team has won a Super Bowl and gotten into a second.