Information: - Rugby School is a day and boarding public school (private and co-educational) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It is one of the oldest private schools in Britain. In many ways the stereotype of the English public school is a reworking of Thomas Arnold's Rugby. It is one of the original seven English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Rugby School enrols boarding and day students, with a total student enrolment of 800 in day student grades 4 to 12. For the academic year 2015/16, Rugby charges boarders up to 10,995 per term, making it the 39th most expensive HMC boarding school. - Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. The town has a population of 70,628 (2011 census) making it the second largest town in the county. The enclosing Borough of Rugby has a population of 100,500 (2011 census). - Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Unqualified, the word "football" is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Sports commonly called 'football' in certain places include: association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union); and Gaelic football. These different variations of football are known as football codes. - Canterbury of New Zealand is a UK - based sports clothing company that focuses on rugby football . The company is named after the Canterbury area in New Zealand where the company started to make knitwear . Other than producing rugby kits , the brand is also known for their rugby protective wear such as headgear and pads , and rugby boots . The company also manufactures and markets lifestyle clothing . The brand 's tagline is '' Committed To The Game '' . Its logo is the silhouettes of three birds ( Kiwis ) on three solid circular backgrounds creating the letters CCC ; the initials of the Canterbury Clothing Company . The brand is distributed widely among rugby - playing nations . The head office was formerly based in the city of Christchurch in Canterbury in the South Island , but has now moved to Stockport , UK . There are operations in Brisbane , Australia ; Emeryville , USA and Manchester , UK . The brand is also manufactured and marketed in Japan under licence by Canterbury of New Zealand Japan . In 2006 , Canterbury sold its South African operations to investment group House of Monatic , which set up Canterbury South Africa to run these operations under licence . In March 2012 it was announced that Canterbury had won the England Rugby Shirt contract from Nike , and in September 2012 they launched the new England kit range . The European arm , Canterbury Europe Ltd , based in Stockport , was purchased by JD Sports in 2009 , then sold on in 2012 to sports and fashion retail group Pentland Group for 22.7m . Following Petr ech 's head injury in 2006 , Canterbury supplied his protective rugby - style helmet until adidas decided they would supply the helmet . - Rugby is a type of football developed at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, one of many versions of football played at English public schools in the 19th century. The two main types of rugby are rugby league and rugby union. Although rugby league initially used rugby union rules, they are now wholly separate sports. - Rugby union, or simply rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts on each try line. - Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 as a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players. Its rules gradually changed with the aim of producing a faster, more entertaining game for spectators. What is the relationship between 'canterbury of new zealand' and 'rugby league'?
sport