As long as sports have existed, technology has impacted them. For example, the sport of baseball forever changed when the baseball glove was invented. And just last season when the MLB introduced Statcast player tracking technology it changed again. It’s a continuous cycle of evolution and one that is healthy to stop and think about as sports fans.
The following infographic is a great dive into the physical, technology and scientific changes that the sport of Rugby has undergone in the last two-hundred years.