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Commemorative plaque to the foundation of Rugby League on George Hotel, Huddersfield. Twenty-one northern clubs held a meeting and by a majority of 20 to 1 voted to secede from the Rugby Football Union to set up their own Northern Rugby Football Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield on 29 August 1895. In 1922 this became the Rugby Football ...
[3] [1] The location of the museum was announced in September 2016 as Bradford City Hall, in conjunction with Bradford City Council. [4] However, in 2020, this proposal was dropped, with instead a new plan to incorporate the museum into the disused George Hotel, Huddersfield, where the Rugby Football League was originally founded in 1895. [5]
The British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) was also founded at the George Hotel in 1973. The Rugby League Heritage Centre was located in the basement of the George from 2005 until the closure of the hotel in 2013. It was the UK's only rugby league heritage museum. It was the brainchild of sports presenter Mike Stephenson. Within the ...
Rugby Museum may refer to: Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, a local history museum and gallery in the English town of Rugby, Warwickshire; New Zealand Rugby Museum, a museum dedicated to the sport of rugby union, in Palmerston North, NZ; Rugby League Heritage Centre, a museum of Rugby League in Huddersfield, England, between 2005 and 2013
In 1946 the club changed their name to Huddersfield Rugby Union Football Club. The club sold part of its Waterloo property for £1.4 million to W Morrison's to help fund the purchase of the 26-acre (110,000 m 2 ) former brewery estate at Lockwood Park from Bass in 1996 to create a major sports complex backed by a £1.84 million Sport Council ...
Edward Luke Horsfall (11 August 1917 - June 1981) was an English rugby union international. [1] Born in Huddersfield, Horsfall joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) after leaving Giggleswick School in 1935. He was a rear gunner during World War II and had a total of 35 years of RAF service, attaining the rank of Wing Commander. [2]
Although the athletic club had formed a rugby football section in 1867, Fartown was initially used for athletics festivals alterations made in the summer of 1878 meant that rugby could begin at the start of the 1878–79 season with the visit of Manchester Rangers on 2 November. The venue quickly became synonymous with Huddersfield RLFC.
In 1895 the club were founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union, (later the Rugby Football League). The club has seen many ups and downs in its long history, but for the first 60 years of rugby league it was one of the powerhouses of the game, with only Wigan as rivals in terms of trophies won.