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In 1948 the first televised rugby league match was played when Wigan's 8–3 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was broadcast to the Midlands. In another first this was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy.
Burrow was selected for the England squad to compete in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup tournament in Australia. [58] In the first Group A match against Papua New Guinea, he played at scrum half back, with England winning the game. Burrow playing for England at the 2008 RLWC. He was not selected for England's 2011 Four Nations campaign due to a ...
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, and referred to colloquially as football, footy (like other codes of football), rugby (like its union counterpart), or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 m (74 yd) wide and 112 ...
The England national rugby league team represent England in international rugby league football tournaments. The team has now seen a revival, having largely formed from the Great Britain team, who also represented Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The team is run under the auspices of the Rugby Football League.
Unlike in most team sports in the United Kingdom, the UK has historically operated a unified national side, nicknamed the GB Lions, since 1908. [3] The team saw great success, winning the 1954, 1960, and 1972 Rugby League World Cups in addition to achieving a runners up place on four separate occasions.
The England national team is the worlds oldest national rugby league team, having played the first international rugby league game in 1904 against Other Nationalities, [a] a team initially made up of Welsh and Scottish players. [2] England have made the Rugby League World Cup final three times, being runners-up; in 1975, 1995 and 2017.
Cameron Smith (born 7 November 1998) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a loose forward and second-row for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League [3] and the England Knights at international level. [4] Smith has spent time on loan from Leeds at the Bradford Bulls and Featherstone Rovers in the Championship.
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]