A decade of injury data shows lowering rugby’s tackle height cut adult concussions by more than a third – but not for schoolboy players.

Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a novel study suggests. The paper is published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & ...

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” from trials in the amateur game, the world governing body said Monday.

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 ...

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is to introduce a trial law lowering the height of a legal tackle, The Times reports. Rugby in crisis: potential strike amid injury and mental health fears Designed to ...

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It is not too late to register for Invercargill’s first primary schools’ tackle rugby league tournament. The League for Good ...

On the same day Ivy League coaches agreed to cut tackling from regular season football practices, a group of 70 doctors and academics penned an open letter to the British government calling for the ...

Rugby World Cup winners have joined a chorus of voices calling to reduce tackling in the sport in a bid to stop the growing number of brain injuries afflicting many of its former players. When the ...

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 ...