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The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from England's established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition. [3]
Rugby league historian Tony Collins has written that since turning professional in the mid-1990s, rugby union has increasingly borrowed techniques and tactics from rugby league. [23] [24] Rugby union has more laws than rugby league [25] [26] and it has been described as being a more complex game.
Rugby league is the dominant winter sport in the eastern Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. [46] The game is also among the predominant sports of Tonga [47] and is played in other Pacific nations such as Samoa and Fiji. Researchers have found that rugby league has been able to help with improving development in the islands. [48]
In 1999, his first book Rugby’s Great Split, based on his 1996 PhD thesis, won the Aberdare Prize for Sports History Book of the Year.He has also won the Aberdare Prize for Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain (2007), A Social History of English Rugby Union (2010) and The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (2016). [7]
Rugby league has for much of its history been banned in the armed forces and in many schools and universities, further stifling growth. These barriers have largely been dismantled since professionalisation of rugby union. The 2006 Super League generated the highest weekly average attendance in the 11-year history of the competition.
Australian Rugby League; 1995: Sydney Bulldogs (7) 17–4 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles: Sydney Football Stadium (1988) 41,127 1996: Manly Warringah Sea Eagles (6) 20–8 St. George Dragons: 40,985 1997: Newcastle Knights: 22–16 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles: 42,482 National Rugby League; 1998: Brisbane Broncos (4) 38–12: Canterbury-Bankstown ...
Ian John Heads OAM (15 February 1943 – 25 March 2024) was an Australian historian, journalist, commentator and author. He was described as "Australia's foremost rugby league historian" by the National Museum of Australia.
The New South Wales Rugby League ran the major rugby league competition of New South Wales from its inception in 1908 until 1994.Following the introduction of a new format for interstate rugby league, the State of Origin series in 1980, the decade of the 1980s brought about expansion of the NSWRL premiership, with the introduction of commercial sponsorship, the Winfield Cup, and the addition ...