Brighouse Rangers RFC
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Brighouse Rangers was a rugby league club in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England.
Plaque celebrating the birth of Rugby League
History of rugby league
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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 establishe
Brighouse Rangers RFC
…rugby league club in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. The club was involved in the meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield in 1895, and after the schism became founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League), playing for eleven seasons from 1895–96 to 1905–06. After a…
The Manningham F.C. team that won the 1895–96 championship, posing with the shield awarded. The club was the first rugby league champion of the Northern RFU and the first in the world. After a series of meetings in 1903 the club committee decided to leave the rugby code and switch to association football, becoming current Bradford City A.F.C.
Rochdale Hornets team of 1875, one of the early rugby football clubs that then switched to rugby league
A cartoon lampooning the divide in rugby. The caricatures are of Rev. Frank Marshall, an arch-opponent of broken-time payments and James Miller, a long-time opponent of Marshall
George Hotel, where club representatives met to form the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895