In 1980 Leeds Chirons rugby union club celebrated its Golden Jubilee with a celebration dinner and a past versus present game.
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 current Barnsley rugby union club was founded in 1902
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.
The story of Rossington Hornets rugby union club
In 1951 Bramley rugby union club had been in existence for fifty years.
I wonder if joining a rugby club is as easy, these days, as it was in the 1960s.
The story of George Teal who played for Leeds Education Offices Sports Club and Leeds Chirons.
Tadcaster has a population of over 7,000, a secondary school that plays rugby, but no rugby club. That hasn't always been the case as there was a rugby club in Tadcaster in the 1930s as well as one in the 1960s.
There were a number of clubs formed in the ‘rugby boom’ of the 1920s that became well established, but were in existence, in some cases, for less than twenty years and had disappeared by the start of the Second World War.
In the late 1960s I was playing rugby union for Leeds Chirons and during the 1967/68 season I had also begun playing Sunday morning rugby league for a club called General Accident.