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Rugby League
Also Known As Rugby League Football The formal full name; rugby league is the commonly used short form already carried as this entity's own name.
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Rugby league split from rugby union on 29 August 1895, when twenty-two clubs from Yorkshire and Lancashire, at a meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield, resigned from the Rugby Football Union to form the Northern Rugby Football Union. The dispute was over broken-time payments: compensation for working-class players' lost wages, which the RFU's own amateur administration refused to sanction. The Northern Rugby Football Union reduced teams from fifteen to thirteen players and took the name Rugby Football League in 1922.
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Origin YearMarks the Huddersfield schism, 29 August 1895, in which twenty-two Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs resigned from the Rugby Football Union over broken-time payments. Originating RegionNorthern England (Yorkshire and Lancashire, for the 1895 Huddersfield schism). 1 International Governing BodyThe Rugby Football League (RFL), founded 1895 as the Northern Rugby Football Union at a meeting in Huddersfield, England, renamed in 1922; international competition is coordinated by the Rugby League International Federation. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Twenty-two Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs resigned from the Rugby Football Union on 29 August 1895 over broken-time payments and formed the Northern Rugby Football Union, renamed Rugby Football League in 1922, reducing teams from fifteen to thirteen players.
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1. Rugby Football History, Independent Reference
Wikipedia, Rugby League
Wikimedia FoundationLead sentenceQuote, Lead sentence
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.
Wikipedia, Johnathan Thurston
Wikipedia, International Rugby League
Wikimedia FoundationGoverned By: International Rugby League (IRL), Opening sectionQuote, Governed By: International Rugby League (IRL), Opening section
The International Rugby League (IRL) is the global governing body for the sport of rugby league football.
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