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Oceania. World Rugby was founded as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886 by Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with England joining in 1890. Australia...

The Iron Redox Flow Battery (IRFB), also known as Iron Salt Battery (ISB), stores and releases energy through the electrochemical reaction of iron salt...

sixteen participating teams were the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) members – New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and...

South Africa was allowed to compete; the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB, now World Rugby) had only readmitted South Africa to international rugby...

body, World Rugby—then known as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB). Primitive forms of football included harpastum, played by the Roman where...

authority of World Rugby, then known as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB). It included the national teams of Italy, French national team, Catalonia...

going back to the 1950s, but met with opposition from most unions in the IRFB. The idea resurfaced several times in the early 1980s, with the Australian...

because they were upset the tour was organised through the RFU rather than the IRFB. The first British Isles side since 1908 toured New Zealand in 1930. Although...

World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for...

applies. World Rugby was founded, as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB), in 1886. Until the 1990s, a player needed to be born in a country or have...

and by Australian rules football). The International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) was founded in 1886, but rifts were beginning to emerge in the code. Professionalism...

Board (IRFB) argued that the testimonial constituted professionalism – which they claimed breached the sport's by-laws. The WFU withdrew from the IRFB in...

South Africa joined the IRFB in 1948, France in 1978 and Argentina, Canada, Italy and Japan in 1991. On 26 August 1995 the IRFB, now known as World Rugby...

International Telecommunication Union; see Telecommunications § Regulation IRFB, the International Rugby Football Board, the predecessor to World Rugby This...

battery chemistries include vanadium, polysulfide–bromide (Regenesys), iron (IRFB), and uranium. Redox fuel cells are less common commercially although many...

French Rugby Federation (FFR) was suspended from playing against the other IRFB nations, because the sport's authorities had suspected for many years that...

formed the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) in 1886, with the RFU joining in 1890. The IRFB oversaw games between the four nations and in 1930...

prevarication by the IRFB about whether they would (or would not) give the tournament official status caused huge problems for the hosts. Without IRFB support, there...

was given to the Romanian federations's requests to be affiliated to the IRFB. After the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the oak leaf was seen without the shield...

Africa's first test match since the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) had banned them due to apartheid. Between 1984 and 1992, South Africa were...