What is the name of the english pub, that the initial meeting was held to form the game of Rugby League?
Question by brent19482000: What is the name of the english pub, that the initial meeting was held to form the game of Rugby League?
I have been told that a pub in Nothern England hosted a meeting of folks that resulted in the proffessional game of Rugby League breaking away from Rugby Union.
Has anybody got any details? Date, Town and high profile players that may well have initially swapped codes?
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Answer by faithfl
the pub
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This from Wiki.
On August 29, 1895 22 clubs split from the RFU and met at the George Hotel in Huddersfield to form the Northern Rugby Football Union, commonly called the Northern Union. NRFU rules
Full link is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union
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Edit:Also this:www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/360/version2_george_hotel.shtml
And:On August 29, 1895 representatives of the northern clubs met in the George Hotel, Huddersfield to form the “Northern Rugby Football Union” (usually termed Northern Union or NU). The twenty-two clubs and their year of foundation were: Batley FC 1880, Bradford FC 1863, Brighouse Rangers FC 1878, Broughton Rangers FC 1877, Dewsbury FC 1875, Halifax FC 1873, Huddersfield FC 1864, Hull FC 1865, Hunslet FC 1883, Leeds FC 1864, Leigh FC 1877, Liversedge FC 1877, Manningham FC 1876, Oldham FC 1876, Rochdale Hornets FC 1871, St Helens FC 1873, Tyldesley FC 1879, Wakefield Trinity FC 1873, Warrington FC 1875, Widnes FC 1873, Wigan FC 1879. The separate Lancashire and Yorkshire competitions of the NRFU merged in 1901, forming the Northern Rugby League, the first time the phrase rugby league was used officially. The NRFU became the Rugby Football League in 1922.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rugby_league
And here’s a website about the whole shebang!http://www.rl1895.com/