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The first national rugby union was the Rugby Football Union, founded in England in 1871. This was followed over the next decade by the home nations of Scottish Football Union (1873, later SRU), Irish Rugby Football Union (1879) and Welsh Rugby Union (1881). The French Federation (1919) and most recent addition to the 6 Nations Italy (1928).
European Rugby Challenge Cup — Replaced the original European Challenge Cup in 2014–15; also claims the history of its predecessor as its own. Second-tier European club, provincial and regional teams knock-out tournament, also involving all of the Six Nations countries, with possible involvement from lower-tier countries (see below).
The British Columbia Rugby Football Union was a Canadian football league, founded on September, 1, 1926. It lasted for 15 seasons, disbanding in 1941 as the Second World War brought most league football to a close.
American football would take the professional route, something much frowned upon by the leadership of the rugby fraternity at the time. This was leading to crises in the Old World too, where in 1895, the Northern Rugby Football Union (a rugby league body) split away in England. While rugby league failed to gain much headway in North America ...
The BCRU consists of nine sub-unions and 65 clubs. It was originally organized in New Westminster in 1889 where Alfred St. George Hamersley, the former England rugby union captain and recent immigrant to Vancouver, and member of Vancouver Football (Rugby) Club, became the first President. [2]
2018 June rugby union test: Wanderers Grounds, Halifax United States: 42-17 June 16, 2018 2018 June rugby union test: Twin Elm Rugby Park, Ottawa Russia: 43-20 June 9, 2018 Douglas Horn Trophy: Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton Scotland: 48-10 March 3, 2018 Americas Rugby Championship: Estadio La Portada, La Serena, Chile Chile: 33-17 February 24 ...
The British Columbia Bears (formerly Pacific Tyee) are the senior men's representative rugby team for British Columbia.They were originally founded in 2009 to compete in the Americas Rugby Championship against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. [1]
The Vancouver Wave are a Canadian rugby union team based in Vancouver, British Columbia.The team plays in the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship and draws most of its players from the Vancouver Rugby Union and the British Columbia Rugby Union, one of fourteen Rugby Unions that have rep teams in the RCSL.