The first ever game of rugby in Barnsley was played at Shaw Lane on the 10th of January 1874.
What happened to Headingley?
It was Yorkshire’s leading rugby union club for over a century.
The day that Askern Welfare played Wigan in the Rugby League Challenge Cup
In the 1920s there was some interest in rugby league in the south of the county.
I had watched David Watkins on television playing rugby union for Wales and the British Lions and when he changed codes in October 1967 I thought, as I am sure many other people did, that his signing was a massive coup for Salford and rugby league. I was intrigued to see how he would settle into his new sport and whether he would make the same impact in league as he had in union.
Ebbw Vale was one of six Welsh clubs that played in the Northern Union in the early years of the Twentieth Century.
In 1953 Yorkshire won the Rugby Union County Championship for the first time since 1928.
In 1962, after a dreadful season, Bradford Northern appeared to have found its saviour.
The story of the General Accident amateur rugby league club and its part in the formation of the student rugby league.
Yorkshire rugby union in the 1930s.
A decade that began with hope and optimism and ended with a World War.
Puig Aubert is considered by many people to be the best French rugby league player of all time.
In 1980 Leeds Chirons rugby union club celebrated its Golden Jubilee with a celebration dinner and a past versus present game.
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.
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.
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.
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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The current Barnsley rugby union club was founded in 1902
St John Fisher played Hunslet Parkside in the Yorkshire Youth Under 19 Cup Final on the 18th of December 1982.
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.