query: sport hutt old boys-marist
supports: Hutt Old Boys - Marist ( HOBM ) is a New Zealand rugby football club . Playing in the competitions of the Wellington Rugby Football Union , it is based at the Hutt Recreation Ground in Lower Hutt . Hutt Old Boys - Marist is a product of mergers over many years between former clubs , including Hutt ( founded 1910 ) , Hutt Valley High School Old Boys ( 1953 ) and Hutt Valley Marist ( 1949 ) . The clubs merged in 1992 , and played their first season in 1993 , as Hutt Old Boys Marist , making the Hutt Recreation their home ground , and club rooms , while Hutt Valley Marist abandoned its club rooms located at Fraser park in Taita . The club celebrated its centennial in 2010 , marking 100 years since the formation of the Hutt Rugby Club from earlier clubs Woburn and Kia Ora . The Hutt Old Boys Club founded in 1967 played for many years in a gold jersey with green shorts and gold and green socks , but returned in the 1990s to the red and white of the previous Hutt club before adding green on amalgamation with Hutt Valley Marist . Hutt Valley Marist 's strip was green , white , and maroon . HOBM has won Wellington 's premier rugby trophy , the Jubilee Cup , several times . Hutt won in 1931 and 1934 , Hutt OB in 1991 , and HOBM in 2007 and 2014 . Hutt OB also won the Swindale Shield , for the first - round competition in 1989 in their first year after being promoted , also claiming it in 1997 , 2012 and 2015 . HOBM has produced , or been the home club for , a number of All Blacks . Colin Loader represented the All Black in 1953 -- 54 , while former All Blacks Steven Pokere , Hika Reid and Mark Shaw played for the club in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Also Bernie Fraser represented the All Blacks , and Wellington , and also played for Hutt Valley Marist in the 70s and 80s . More recent All Blacks affiliated to HOBM include Piri Weepu , Hosea Gear and Jeremy Thrush . 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. 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. 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 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). 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. The National Provincial Championship, or NPC, was the major domestic rugby competition in New Zealand. The NPC saw many alterations to its format and brand. Since 2006, it has been replaced by two competitions, the ITM Cup (originally the Air New Zealand Cup) and the Heartland Championship. From the 2011 Season, the top Division was split into two tiers based on the 2010 Table after Pool Play. Teams 17 were assigned to the Premiership and teams 814 to the Championship. There is automatic Promotion/Relegation between the two tiers and also "crossover" matches, as well as full Round Robin Matches within each tier. The Heartland Championship is also split into two tiers after pool play with the top tier playing for the Meads Cup and bottom tier playing for the Lochore Cup. Currently all 26 of New Zealand's Provincial Unions participate in either the Air New Zealand Cup or Heartland Championship.
  The NPC was first contested in 1976, and although the basic format of Division One was much the same from then until the 2006 reorganisation, there were a number of changes to the lower divisions. The Wellington Rugby Football Union (known as the Wellington Lions for competition reasons) are a New Zealand governing body of rugby union in the New Zealand province of Wellington. The main stadium is Westpac Stadium which is located in Wellington. The union also represents the Wellington Lions, which is professional rugby union team who compete in the Mitre 10 Cup competition and contest for the Ranfurly Shield. Before 2006 the Lions competed in the National Provincial Championship. The Mitre 10 Cup (colloquially referred to as "National Provincial Championship" or "NPC") is the highest level of New Zealand domestic rugby union competition, contested annually from late August to early November and managed by the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU). Building on competitions dating back to the National Provincial Championship in 1976, with teams from a number of provinces, the Mitre 10 Cup officially started with the 2006 season with 14 teams after the National Provincial Championship (NPC) was split into this professional competition and the amateur Heartland Championship competition. The competition was known as the Air New Zealand Cup to the end of the 2009 season; the name then changed to the ITM Cup for the 2010 season after ITM, the trading name of Independent Timber Merchants Co-operative Ltd., a New Zealand building supplies retailer took over as lead sponsor. In 2016 the New Zealand-owned home improvement and garden retailer, Mitre 10 took over sponsorship after out-bidding ITM. The Ranfurly Shield, colloquially known as the Log o' Wood, is a trophy in New Zealand's domestic rugby union competition. First played for in 1904, the Shield is based on a challenge system, rather than a league or knockout competition as with most football trophies. The holding union must defend the shield in challenge matches, and a successful challenger becomes the new holder of the Shield.
candidates: american football association football canadian football contact sport football rugby rugby league rugby union
answer: rugby union