Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a new study suggests. Changes to the tackle height law in women's community rugby in ...

Correspondence to Kathryn Dane, Discipline of Physiotherapy, Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine, Dublin, D02 PN40, Ireland; danek{at}tcd.ie Objectives Tackle-related injuries account for up to ...

Lowering the tackle height in men’s rugby has successfully reduced the rate of head collisions among players, a study suggests. Recent changes to the tackle height law for community rugby players in ...

Rugby remains “a long, long way” from making a law change to lower the tackle height at elite level despite “positive results ...

Objectives RugbySmart is a safe tackle technique education programme. Our objective was to identify whether the RugbySmart-recommended safe tackle technique was exhibited by club rugby players and ...

World Rugby will trial a lower tackle height in the elite game at next summer’s Under-20 World Championship in Georgia.

May 30 (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has joined the condemnation of the "run it straight" rugby tackle challenge that has gone viral on social media after a teenager died ...

Rugby can be one of the world’s most brutal sports, and a French rugby player found that out the hard way Saturday. In a Top 14 match, Bordeaux’s Maxime Lucu was kicking the ball away when he was ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - World Rugby intends to lower the legal tackling height at elite level worldwide in the coming years to reduce the risk of head injuries in the sport, the governing body's chief ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The tackle that left Ravens tight end Mark Andrews with a fractured fibula, ligament damage to his left ankle and caused him to miss seven games last year was officially banned by the ...

Two-time Rugby World Cup-winning coach Jacques Nienaber has named his favourite type of tackle. He has also given his ...

New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has added his voice to widespread condemnation of the viral rugby tackle challenge (Getty) New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has added his ...