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The First Kangaroos: 1988 Comedy, drama Rugby league Dennis Waterman stars in a story of an Australian team on a tour of Great Britain. Old Scores: 1991 Comedy, drama Rugby union A controversial match between New Zealand and Wales is replayed 25 years later with the original teams. Starring Windsor Davies, Martyn Sanderson, and John Bach. Up 'n ...
In 1948 Wigan took part in the first televised rugby league match when its 8–3 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was broadcast to the Midlands. This was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy.
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The 1947–48 Challenge Cup was the 47th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. [1]The final was contested by Wigan and Bradford Northern at Wembley Stadium, and was the first ever rugby league match to be televised.
Wigan had ended the regular season as the league leaders. The Challenge Cup Winners were Wigan who beat Bradford Northern 8–3 in the final. Wigan's 1948 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was the first ever televised Rugby League match and Cup Final – although it was shown in the Midlands only. [1]
The 1948 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia was the fourteenth tour by New Zealand's national rugby league team, and the eleventh tour to visit Australia. The eight-match tour included two Test Matches, which were the first played by New Zealand in Australia since 1909.
For many years, the rugby union authorities had suspected that the French rugby union was abusing the idea of amateurism, and in the early 1930s the French Rugby Union was suspended from playing against the other nations. In 1932 the first rugby league match under floodlights is played between Leeds and Wigan at White City in London. [17]
The First Kangaroos is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney. It depicts the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain , the first-ever such tour by the Australia national rugby league team .