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A New Dawn?

Rugby League Clubs

In 1962, after a dreadful season, Bradford Northern appeared to have found its saviour.

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Rugby League Pioneers

Rugby League Clubs

The story of the General Accident amateur rugby league club and its part in the formation of the student rugby league.

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Puig Aubert

Rugby League Characters

Puig Aubert is considered by many people to be the best French rugby league player of all time.

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Leeds Chirons Golden Jubilee

Rugby Union Clubs

In 1980 Leeds Chirons rugby union club celebrated its Golden Jubilee with a celebration dinner and a past versus present game.

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Representative rugby in World War Two

Rugby Union

A number of representative games took place during World War Two where rugby league players played alongside rugby union players. This was the first game where a team of rugby league players played a team of rugby union players.

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Lezignan Murals

Clubs

Lezignan murals - the early years of the Football Club de Lezignan.

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United Sportive Quillan

Rugby Union Clubs

Quillan is a small town in South West France situated on the banks of the river Aude near the foot of the Pyrenees. The success of Quillan rugby club in the late 1920s had a significant impact on rugby in France.

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A century of giant killers

Rugby League

The Rugby League Challenge Cup started life as the Northern Union Challenge Cup in 1897. The competition was re-named the Rugby League Challenge Cup in 1922 when the Northern Union became Rugby Football League. Over the years the format of the competition has changed a number of times, but apart the 1993 and 1994 competitions, there have always been junior/amateur clubs included in the first or preliminary round draw.

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Bridging the Gap

Rugby League Clubs

Mansfield Marksman rugby league club made an application to join the professional ranks in 1984 with; it seemed, at the time, realistic expectations.

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Oakwood rugby union club

Rugby Union Clubs

Oakwood rugby union club was formed in 1988 as the result of a merger between Leeds Chirons rugby union club and Kitson College rugby union club.
Oakwood struggled from the word go and during the two seasons it was in existence only won two games.


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The All Golds in York

Northern Union

The 1907/08 New Zealand tour of Australia and Great Britain arrived in York on the 29th January 1908.

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Who was Bob Oakes

Rugby Union Characters

Bob Oakes was probably the most influential figure in Yorkshire rugby union in the last century.

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Joining a rugby club

Rugby Union Clubs

I wonder if joining a rugby club is as easy, these days, as it was in the 1960s.

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