Chris Park!
Rugby League: A Brief History.
On August 29th 1895, representatives of 22 northern rugby clubs met at the George Hotel in Huddersfield to form the Northern Rugby Football Union. The more working-class based northern clubs broke away from the amateur middle-class southern clubs in the Rugby Football Union who frowned upon professionalism.
Differences Between the two codes:
- Thirteen players per team
- The “play the ball” (heeling back the ball after a tackle) rather than rucking and mauling
- The elimination of the line out
- A slighly different scoring structure
Where is it in the press?
Apart from when a major final is played or an England or Great Britain international is played it very rarely gets more than a page in the nationals.
I think there should be more scope in terms of rugby league reports, especially from the BBC.
