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The first clash of codes game in the UK between rugby league and rugby union received a lot of media attention and was labelled as The Clash of the Codes.The game was between Bath and Wigan and saw league side Wigan win with an aggregate score of 101–50 across two games.
Rugby football match on the 1846 Shrove Tuesday in Kingston upon Thames, England. Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, [1] where the rules were first codified in 1845. [2]
Rugby football (28 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Football codes" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Rugby league; Rugby union; S. Samoa ...
The cross-code challenge met with lukewarm support from both the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Football League. The dates for the games were set for May 1996, which was the end of the domestic rugby union season, but was only a few weeks into the rugby league season (rugby league having made the switch to being a summer game that year).
A dual-code rugby international is a rugby footballer who has played at the senior international level in both codes of rugby, 13-a-side rugby league and 15-a-side rugby union. Rugby league started as a breakaway version of rugby in Northern England in 1895 and in New Zealand and Australia in 1908, and consequently a number of early top-class ...
Pages in category "Comparison of football codes" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Comparison of association football and rugby union;
Top American football level Top rugby union level Top representation level American football debut Rugby union debut Richard Tardits: France, USA: National Football League (New England) Top 14 : USA (15s) 1990: 1994 Dan Lyle: USA: NCAA Division I FCS (Virginia Military Institute) English Premiership (Bath/Leicester) USA (15s) 1988: 1996 Dave ...
After the schism the separate codes were named "rugby union" for the RFU code and "rugby league" for the NU code. [8] In 1906, All Black George William Smith joined with Albert Henry Baskerville to form a team of professional rugby players. George Smith cabled a friend in Sydney and three professional matches were arranged between a New South ...