In order to research rugby, first and the foremost task was to understand its evolution in history and its future development trend. Therefore, literature review was used in this research. After studying relevant literatures, the following results were concluded: (1) In the history, rugby was first emerged in 1900 Paris Olympics; (2) Even though different game systems were derived from the development of rugby history, the Rugby 15s (fifteen competition system) became the official race mode; (3) Rugby Sevens, as seven competition system, will be brought back to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.