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The Northern Rugby Football Union. The Birth of Rugby League. 1895 to 1922: The Birth of Rugby League 1895-1922
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On Thursday 29th August 1895, 21 of the leading rugby union clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire met at the George Hotel in Huddersfield to discuss their long running disagreement with the rugby football union. Little did they know what was to follow. The clubs decided that they had suffered enough of the control of the southern gentry and formed their own northern rugby football union and split from the rugby football union. It was the beginning of a dispute that would continue for almost a hundred years. The new northern union thrived, and many clubs soon joined, however, with little coherent strategy or assistance from the union, many folded within a few years. The stronger clubs and the union itself survived those initial chaotic times and continued to create the structure and competitions that have evolved to create the game of rugby league football we know today. This new book illustrates the birth of the northern union in 1895 to the 1922 name change to the rugby league with hundreds of rare images of the early teams and individuals who had the courage to take that enormous leap in the dark.
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Additional information
| Publisher | DB Publishing (13 Sept. 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 221 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1780915853 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1780915852 |
| Dimensions | 15.6 x 1.27 x 23.4 cm |
by n butterfield
This book is a must for those interested in the history of Rugby league.
Well written, and full of illustrations, and photographs.
The writer is an expert on the history, and has obviously spent many years researching the facts.
Without doubt a 10/10 book.
by Steve
An excellent book telling the story of the first 27 years of the Rugby League code when it was known as Northern Union football.
It isn’t really a narrative tale, as Les Hoole paints the picture in episodes centred on clubs of the era (many of them long-since defunct) and the leading players. It’s an approach that works well, aided by a superb collection of vintage photographs.
by paarthur2012
VERY GOOD BOOK FOR RUGBY LEAGUE HISTORIANS
by J. Devaney
VERY INTERESTING BOOK ON THE RUGBY SCHISM AT THE TURN OF THE 19th CENTURY.A WELL ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF EARLY RUGBY LEAGUE–A RECOMMENDED READ.
by “northluffenham”
Sorry thought it was an awful book because I bought it hoping it would start to explain why league had broken away from union, it did not do that at all. It was mainly about the first few seasons of rugby league concentrating on the tests, challenge cup and seasons up to 1922 with brevity.