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there seems to be no analysis on why the size and dimension of the ball is chosen - very few games have balls that are not spherical.. seems too much human intervention in generating the Sport

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They say you can use spherical balls too (to the right in the rule image). It seems to not be important for the game.

Rugby balls add a deal of randomness; are much harder to drop kick and grub-kick.

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