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In 2005, to celebrate a decade of professional rugby union in Australia, the Wallaby Team of the Decade was announced. In 2007, the ARU launched a national competition, the Australian Rugby Championship, with eight teams—three from New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one each from the ACT, Victoria and Western Australia. The ARC was ...
Rugby Australia Ltd, [2] previously named Australian Rugby Union Limited and Australian Rugby Football Union Limited, is an Australian company operating the premier rugby union competition in Australia and teams. [3] It has its origins in 1949. It is a member of World Rugby.
Rugby union in Australia has a history of organised competition dating back to the late 1860s. Although traditionally most popular in Australia's rugby football strongholds of New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, it is played throughout the nation.
Since 1908 Australia and Wales have competed against each other in rugby union in forty-nine matches, Australia having won thirty-four, Wales fourteen, with one draw. Since 2007 the teams have competed for the James Bevan Trophy, which was created to celebrate 100 years of rugby between the two nations. [1]
The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team.
Australia: 1981 France tour of Australia: 14 11 July 1981 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 24–14 Australia: 15 13 November 1983 Stade Marcel-Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand: 15–15 draw: 1983 Australia tour of Italy and France: 16 19 November 1983 Parc des Princes, Paris 15–6 France: 17 21 June 1986 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 27–14 Australia
According to Rugby Australia, rugby football was an extremely early introduction to Australia, with games of the primitive code being played in the early to mid-19th century, and the first formal team, Sydney University Football Club being set up in 1864. [18]
Australia: Match Details: 1910-07-02 New Zealand: 13 28 SCG: Sydney New Zealand: Match Details: 1912-11-16 United States: 12 8 California Field: Berkeley Australia: Match Details: 1912 Australia tour; 1913-09-06 New Zealand: 5 30 Athletic Park: Wellington New Zealand: Match Details: 1913 Australia tour; 1913-09-13 New Zealand: 13 25 Carisbrook ...