In 2014, Pete Carroll, then the head coach of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, released a teaching video that introduced a rugby-style of tackling — which emphasized the use of the shoulder, not ...

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was among the first to promote rugby tackling in football. He and assistant Rocky Seto worked with rugby great Waisale Serevi to develop what became known as ...

Interest in women's rugby has exploded in recent years, but some Calgary-based researchers are drawing attention to the ...

Fiji prop Bulou Vasuturaga and Samoa center Melina Grace Salale have received three-match bans for their red cards at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in England. They will miss the rest of the ...

Only 4% of rugby tackle research has focused on women. Much of the early evidence on girls' rugby comes from Canada, underscoring the country's leadership in this space.

Background The tackle event in rugby is a technical and physical contest between opposing players. A player's ability to tolerate and contest during a tackle is a prerequisite for safe participation ...

Weaver, a former Iron Maidens coach, has been president of the Ohio Rugby Union for 12 years. He said there are roughly 90,000 male and female rugby players in the country in all categories.

Advertisement Tackling rugby's crisis: England's World Cup-winning coach SIR CLIVE WOODWARD returns to the club where it all began for him to see how Henley have adapted to the sport's new reality ...

Gene Mountjoy, a rugby coach at Santa Clara University, is the tackling coach at Menlo, teaching a shoulder-leverage style of tackling – head to the side, shoulder to the midsection.

Wallabies defence coach Nathan Grey has joined forces with his counterparts from the world's top rugby nations to assess how tackling technique can reduce the risk of injuries.