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Newport RUFC are an English rugby team that play at the Old Showground just outside the town of Newport Shropshire. They currently play in the National League 3 Midlands a fifth tier league in the English rugby union system.Rugby was first played in Newport in 1871 when the new Headmaster of Adams Grammar School Tom Collins introduced the game to the boys. In the same year a game was played between the school and a Town team on the Chetwynd End ground.