Grandfather Rule

	Grandfather Rule The grandfather rule, in sports which usually only permit participants to play for the team of their country of birth, is an exception which gives participants the option to play for the country of any of their ancestors up to the grandparents. Despite the common name for the rule, grandparents of either sex can be invoked equally and it is sometimes referred to as the grandparent rule or the granny rule. Examples Rugby league In rugby league, the RLIF reiterated in 2008 that a player may represent a country if it is their country, or the country of their parents or any of their grandparents' birth. Rugby union In rugby union, regulation 8.1 of World Rugby stipulates that: a Player may only play for the eam(...) of the country with which the Player has a genuine, close, credible and established national link in which: (a) he was born; or (b) one parent or grandparent was born; or (...) The term "grandparent" was at one time defined to include only blood grandparents, even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rugby League Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112–122 metres (122 to 133 yards) long with H shaped posts at both ends. It is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. It originated in 1895 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire as the result of a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players.Tony Collins, ''Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain'' (2006), p.3 The rules of the game governed by the new Northern Rugby Football Union progressively changed from those of the RFU with the specific aim of producing a faster and more entertaining game to appeal to spectators, on whose income the new organisation and its members depended. Due to its high-velocity contact, cardio-based endurance and minimal use of body protection, rugby league i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Isla de Mona, Mona, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques. It has roughly 3.2 million residents, and its Capital city, capital and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, most populous city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Spanish language, Spanish and English language, English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Association Football Terminology Association football (more commonly known as football) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier."History of the FA" The Football Association . Archived fro the original on 7 April 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2007. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rugby Union Terminology Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: Rugby league: 13 players per side * Masters Rugby League * Mod league * Rugby league nines * Rugby league sevens * Touch (sport) * Wheelchair rugby league Rugby union: 15 players per side * American flag rugby * Beach rugby * Mini rugby * Rugby sevens, 7 players per side * Rugby tens, 10 players per side * Snow rugby * Touch rugby * Tambo rugby Both codes * Tag rugby Rugby Fives, a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court Underwater rugby, an underwater sport played in a swimming pool and named after rugby football Rugby ball, a ball for use in rugby football Arts and entertainment '' Rugby'' (video game), the 2000 installment of Electronic Arts' Rugby video game series * ''Rugby'', second movement of ''Mouvements symphoniques'' by Arthur Honegger Brands and enterprises * Rugby (automobile), made by Durant Motors * Rugby Cement, a former UK PLC, now a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rugby League Terminology Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: Rugby league: 13 players per side * Masters Rugby League * Mod league * Rugby league nines * Rugby league sevens * Touch (sport) * Wheelchair rugby league Rugby union: 15 players per side * American flag rugby * Beach rugby * Mini rugby * Rugby sevens, 7 players per side * Rugby tens, 10 players per side * Snow rugby * Touch rugby * Tambo rugby Both codes * Tag rugby Rugby Fives, a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court Underwater rugby, an underwater sport played in a swimming pool and named after rugby football Rugby ball, a ball for use in rugby football Arts and entertainment '' Rugby'' (video game), the 2000 installment of Electronic Arts' Rugby video game series * ''Rugby'', second movement of ''Mouvements symphoniques'' by Arthur Honegger Brands and enterprises * Rugby (automobile), made by Durant Motors * Rugby Cement, a former UK PLC, now a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Diasporas A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. Historically, the word was used first in reference to the dispersion of Greeks in the Hellenic world, and later Jews after the Babylonian exile. The word "diaspora" is used today in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. Examples of notably large diasporic populations are the Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora, which originated during and after the early Arab-Muslim conquests and continued to grow in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide; the southern Chinese and Indians who left their homelands during the 19th and 20th centuries; the Irish diaspora that came into existence both during and after the Great Famine; the Scottish diaspora that developed on a large scale after the Highland Clearances and Lowland Clearances; the nomadic Romani population from the Indian subcontinent; the Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]