Rugby match

Rugby match
Photo by Beth Newman Wynn

March 27, 2012

Corey Outlaw of Madison, an outside center for the MSU rugby club team, helped the university beat Auburn 20-12 this past weekend in Starkville's Westside Park. Outlaw and his teammates host Ole Miss on Saturday [March 31]. According to the sport's lore, in 1823 William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School in England, defied the conventions of the day (that the ball may only be kicked forward) to pick it up and run with it in a game, thus creating the distinct concept of rugby.