Tackling above the waist will be banned in community rugby matches from next season to "reduce head impact exposure and concussion risk", the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said on Thursday. The RFU added ...

World rugby's governing body says it remains “a long, long way” from making a law change to lower the tackle height at elite ...

JAMES RYAN admitted that he did not need an intervention after his red card to tell him he was wrong. But he believes that ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska safety Nate Gerry was ejected from back-to-back games last season because officials ruled he targeted receivers above the shoulders when tackling them. This year, Gerry and ...

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 ...

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 ...

PISCATAWAY - Watching countless short passes turn into big gains against the Rutgers football defense last season inspired the same question again and again: Do they know how to tackle? Months later, ...

CLIFTON PARK >> Before the start of the 2016 high school football season the Shenendehowa Plainsmen squad had some homework to take with them. Just as the last high school year was ending this year’s ...