The Webb Ellis Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Rugby World Cup, the premier competition in men's international rugby union. The Cup is named after William Webb Ellis, who is often credited as the inventor of rugby football. The trophy is silver gilt and has been presented to the winner of the Rugby World Cup since the first competition in 1987. It has been held thrice by New Zealand (1987, 2011 & 2015), twice by Australia (1991 & 1999) and South Africa (1995 & 2007), and once by England in 2003.
The 38 centimetre trophy weighs 4.5kg, is gilded silver and is supported by two cast scroll handles. On one handle there is a head of a satyr, on the other there is the head of a nymph. On the face of the trophy, the words International Rugby Football Board and below that arch The Webb Ellis Cup are engraved. The Webb Ellis Cup is also referred to (incorrectly) as the "Webb Ellis Trophy" or colloquially as "Bill", a nickname coined by the 1991 Rugby World Cup winners, the Wallabies.
Reverend William Webb Ellis (24 November 1806 – 24 January 1872) was an Anglican clergyman and the alleged inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the rugby-style of play. Although the story has become firmly entrenched in the sport's folklore, it is not supported by substantive evidence, and is discounted by most rugby historians as an origin myth.
Webb Ellis was born in Salford, Lancashire, the younger of two surviving sons (the eldest, James, died aged three; the second son, Thomas, of Dunchurch, Warwickshire, was a surgeon) of James Ellis, a cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards, in 1809 made a Lieutenant of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, joining them in Portugal, and Ann, daughter of William Webb, a surgeon, of Alton, Hampshire, whom James married in Exeter in 1804. His paternal grandfather was from Pontyclun in South Wales, a descendant of the Ellis family of Kiddall, Yorkshire. After his father was killed during the Peninsular War in a cavalry action near Albuera on July 1, 1812, Mrs Ellis, in receipt of an allowance of £30 from His Majesty's Royal Bounty in recognition of her husband's service, decided to move to Rugby, Warwickshire so that William and his older brother Thomas could receive an education at Rugby School with no cost as a local foundationer (i.e. a pupil living within a radius of 10 miles of the Rugby Clock Tower). He attended the school from 1816 to 1825 and was recorded as being a good scholar and cricketer, although it was noted that he was "rather inclined to take unfair advantage at cricket". The incident in which Webb Ellis supposedly caught the ball in his arms during a football match (which was allowed) and ran with it (which was not) is supposed to have happened in the latter half of 1823.
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The 30-year-old is a tremendous all-round player and was integral in the Springboks defending the WilliamWebb-Ellis Cup last year.12 ... Cup winning campaigns ... A double World Cup winner for a reason.3.
Cohen was part of the England side which lifted the Webb-Ellis Cup more than two decades ago but now wants to help others transition out of the game after facing his own challenges following the hanging up of his boots.
Firstly, if Ireland had actually won the WebbEllis Cup, as expected – after going into the 2023 tournament top of the rankings – they would have earned £4.8m in prize money, rather than £600,000 for ...
... ages, leaving an overmatched England as the north’s lone semi-final representatives before the Springboks dispatched the All Blacks in the final to lift the WebbEllis Cup for a second straight time.
Fine margins! 🤏 ... For a second week in a row the Boks were not at their best, but it just shows the class of the back-to-back WebbEllis Cup winners to trounce a spirited England without hitting their highest gear ... Points-Scorers ... Conversions ... .
In Chasing the Sun 2, which chronicles their extraordinary path to lifting the WebbEllis Cup – winning all three knockout games by a single point – Rassie Erasmus, the incorrigible head coach, shows ...
The Springboks became the first team to win back-to-back World Cups in 2023, although England came very close to ending their defence of the WebbEllisTrophy, the Red Rose coming out on the wrong side of a 16-15 scoreline in a very tight semi-final.
The towering double World Cup-winner has certainly made a name for himself in recent years ... World Cup ... And he was stunned by the reception when they landed back in Johannesburg with the WebbEllis Cup.
It was amazing to come back after the World Cup last year and see what it meant to the country ... There were scenes of glorious mayhem when South Africa brought home the WebbEllis Cup last November and took it on a whistle-stop national tour.
... the World Cup exit at the hands of the All Blacks still stings ... Struggles at the scrum were a contributing factor to Ireland’s quest to lift the WebbEllis Cup falling short just over 12 months ago.
The 26-year-old admits he underperformed last October when Irish dreams of lifting the WebbEllis Cup were extinguished by a heartbreaking 28-24 quarter-final loss to the All Blacks in Paris.
The WebbEllis Cup began quite some journey on this day 25 years ago, after Australia had completed an almost perfect World Cup campaign by winning the tournament with the concession of only a single try.
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