Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1810s in sports, 1830s in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents 1 Boat race 2 Rugby football 3 Births 4 Deaths Boat race First Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race contested - won by Oxford (1829) Rugby football William Webb Ellis said to have invented rugby (1823) Births Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.