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	Rugby League World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rugby League World Cup, is a tournament in which a number of the strongest rugby league nations participate in, to determine which nation is supreme in the sport.
		This format was used twice, with World Cup Finals being held in 1988 and 1992.
		The next World Cup is due to be held in Australia in 2008.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rugby_League_World_Cup (528 words)

	Rugby League Challenge Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Initially, the final tie was held at one of the larger club grounds in the north, however, in 1927 the decision was made to relocate to the new Wembley Stadium in London.
		The final is one of the biggest rugby league events of the year in Britain, along with the Super League Grand Final.
		The move to a summer season for rugby league in 1996 did not see the Challenge Cup moved, and it became instead essentially a pre-season tournament, with the final taking place early in the season.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Challenge_Cup_(rugby) (561 words)

	Rugby football - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Rugby Union ranks as the national sport of Wales, of New Zealand and of Pacific countries such as Tonga, Fiji and Samoa.
		Rugby football has strong claims to the world's first and oldest "football club": the Guy's Hospital Football Club, formed in London in 1843, by old boys from Rugby School.
		Rugby league retains great popularity among working class people in the English counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /rugby_football.htm (2035 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/league.html (7807 words)

	ipedia.com: Rugby football Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Rugby Union is the national sport of Wales, New Zealand and Pacific countries such as Tonga, Fiji, Samoa.
		Rugby League is the national sport of Papua New Guinea and is also played in most of the above countries.
		However, the trophy for the Rugby Union World Cup is named Webb Ellis in his honour and a plaque at the school 'commemorates' the 'achievement'.
	www.ipedia.com /rugby_football.html (1087 words)

	Rugby League World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The first Rugby League World Cup was held in France in 1954.
		In 1995 the competition was held in Great Britain and expanded to ten teams.
		This format proved successful, and the World Cup was expanded again to sixteen teams for the 2000 competition.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rugby_League_World_Cup (351 words)

	Sporting Life - Rugby League: World Cup 2000
		The idea of a rugby league world championship was first mooted as far back as 1933 by France, who tried repeatedly to get the tournament off the ground before finally succeeding in 1954.
		The second tournament was staged, in a league format, in Australia three years later and the host nation claimed the spoils as the only unbeaten team.
		The World Cup was held in England for the first time in 1960 and, fittingly, Great Britain won back the crown, only for Australia to regain possession eight years later when they beat France in the final in Sydney.
	www.sportinglife.com /rugbyleague/worldcup2000/history (661 words)

	1968 Rugby League World Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the first time a world cup final was specifically pre-arranged (previous finals having only been used when teams were level on points).
		The match between Great Britain and Australia attracted an attendance of 62,256, the highest for a Rugby League World Cup match until 1992.
		The final was held at Sydney Cricket Ground; a crowd of 54,290 watched Australia defeat France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1968_Rugby_League_World_Cup (192 words)

	www.playtheball.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		They had proposed that a World Cup competition should be staged in France as early as 1935.
		The first World Cup was an eminently successful project, both playing-wise and financially.
		However, the long drawn-out format was clearly unsatisfactory and in 1995, the game’s centenary was celebrated with an entirely different type of World Cup in England and Wales.
	www.playtheball.com /rlwc00/history (548 words)

	International Rugby League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The four home nations in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup was one area of the competition which received a lot of complaints by both the fans and media of the code, however that is not a reason why the concept should be thrown away for the 2008 tournament...
		The first steps to make the 2008 Rugby League World Cup one of the most competitive in history have been laid with the announcement of an Under 16's Rugby League tournament to be held in Moscow at the end of the year...
		The 2005 Rugby League World Cup looks like it will contain only 8 sides, a number which is half as many that competed in 2000, and still less than the highly successful 1995 Rugby League World Cup...
	world.rleague.com /tournaments/rlwc (625 words)

	John Collins - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Born in 31th January, 1968, in the city of Galashiels, Scotland, John Collins used to play Rugby when he was a little boy, confirming the fact that in the Borders this sport is almost an unanimity.
		Monaco was prepared to release John Collins after the World Cup, even with a year to go on his contract, because of the interest of 13 major European clubs, including Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Middlesbrough.
		During the last World Cup, Collins made a really good participation, being one of the key players for Scotland, scoring a goal against Brazil.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Midfield/5306/bio.html (953 words)

	Articles - France national rugby league team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The game of rugby league suffered in France during the Second World War, as the French Rugby Union authorities worked with the collaborating Vichy regime to have rugby league banned.
		Many players and officials of the sport were punished, whilst all of the assets of the rugby league and its clubs were handed over to the union.
		The closest they went to getting their hands on it was in the very first World Cup, when they went down narrowly, 16-12, to Great Britain in a play-off in Paris.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/France_national_rugby_league_team (337 words)

	Rugby League World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A rare programme from the game between a Rugby League XIII and France that was played at Headingley on 06 May 1935, with the proceeds going to the 'King George Jubilee Fund'.
		A "Rugby League News" programme for the Third Test between Australia and New Zealand that was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 30 Jun 1956.
		A souvenir from the Rugby Football League Golden Jubilee Dinner held at Belle Vue, Manchester on 19 Nov 1946, in the presence of the Rt Hon The Earl of Derby.
	www.rugby-league-world.com /Auction.html (2429 words)

	Guinness World Records - Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The fastest try scored in Rugby World Cup matches is 18 seconds after the kick-off by Elton Flatley playing for Australia against Romania on 18...
		The costliest cash-only transfer in Rugby League was £440,000 ($777,260) for Martin Offiah (born December 29, 1966).
		This, the world's most prestigious international tournament for seven-a-side rugby teams, was first held in 1976.
	www.guinnessworldrecords.com /index/records.asp?id=82&pg=1 (448 words)

	BBC SPORT \| RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP 2000 \| WORLD CUP 2000 \| World Cup history: 1954-92 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The first World Cup took place, after several years of discussion and a number of false starts, in France.
		Three years later the same teams competed in the second World Cup in Australia, though - not for the first time - the format was altered.
		The league table system was amended once more to include a final, which Australia won, consigning the much-improved French to their second final defeat.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/rugby_league/world_cup_2000/969083.stm (657 words)

	Rugby world cup, rugby union, england rugby and more on Seniority.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Good viewing for rugby completists, like me. It's nice to see that the survivors pretty much all carried on with life and still associate with one another.
		The trouble with being a Wakefield RFC (rugby union) supporter is that most people have only heard of the rugby league club and therefore think that we support them.
		The rugby footage is great, but there's only about fifteen minutes of it out of the 130 minutes or so of the film.
	www.seniority.co.uk /contributions/sport/rugby/index.php?ArticleID=rugby_1013269580 (1384 words)

	1954 Rugby League World Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The prime motivators behind the idea of holding rugby league world cup were the French, who were short of money following the History_of_rugby_league#The_thirties_and_the_Second_World_Warseizing of their assets by the rugby union in World War II/.
		A group stage was held first, with Great Britain national rugby league teamGreat Britain topping the table as a result of points difference.
		They went on to defeat France national rugby league teamFrance (who finished second in the table, level on points) in the final, which was held at the Charlety Stadium, Paris/, in front of around 30,000 spectators.
	www.infothis.com /find/1954_Rugby_League_World_Cup (244 words)

	CNNSI.com - Rugby League - Rugby League World Cup team profiles - Friday October 27, 2000 08:03 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		There is a small but thriving domestic league in Russia, but a lack of international competition will make it hard for them to compete on the World Cup stage.
		World Cup runners-up in 1954 and 1968, France has struggled at international level over the past two decades and coach Gilles Dumas faces a difficult task getting his side into the last eight.
		Super League coach Shaun McRae has been preparing a Scottish side who will be making their World Cup debut after playing in the Emerging Nations event five years ago.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /rugby/news/2000/10/26/rlwc_profiles (1072 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Lsistings0307
		Graham Hill was a gritty driver who won two world titles in 1962 with BRM and in 1968 with Lotus, holding the team together after a season of tragedy.
		Having reached the FA Cup final in probably the hardest possible way, United's 2:0 victory over Newcastle to clinch the double was one of their easiest wins of the competition.
		This programme focuses on one of the world's most famous referees, Mills Lane In the programme he discusses the matches he would have most liked to have refereed.
	www.soccernet.com /listings/2003/0307 (568 words)

	Football League
		The oldest (but far from wisest) League in the world was founded in 1888, and initially consisted of 12 clubs in the midlands and north of England.
		Stopping again for the Second World War (1940-46), it saw deregionalization and the creation of Division 4 in 1958, expansion by four clubs to 92 in 1959 and the start of the League Cup in 1960.
		Also included are the seven clubs which won the FA Cup but never entered the League, and all those unsuccessful in their membership applications.
	www.btinternet.com /~brentours/SP31.htm (1857 words)

	Rugby League World Cup
		The tournament was held in Australia to coincide with the local celebration of 50 seasons of Rugby League.
		The first World Cup in 8 years saw the permanent addition of a Final between the top 2 sides to determine the winner.
		The Australians stumbled badly in England in the 1970 World Cup.
	www.rl1908.com /Tests/World-Cup.htm (2040 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Venue always viewed with a unique reverence
		The pride, whatever the level of player, from 15-year-old schoolboy international to Moore, prince of captains, holding aloft the Jules Rimet Trophy, is difficult to describe: a sensation not unlike that of an anaesthetic in the blissful moments before it weightlessly wafts you into unconsciousness.
		From the age of 10 I had been listening to the round-vowelled radio tones of Raymond Glendenning, relating the FA Cup final deeds of Raich Carter and Peter Doherty for Derby in the 1946 victory over Charlton, and reverentially referring to "the velvet turf".
		In the 1968 Rugby League Cup final, Fox faced the posts for a conversion of Ken Hirst's late try that would give Trinity victory over Hull.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2005/03/28/sfnwem28.xml&sSheet=/sport/2005/06/05/ixfooty.html (1254 words)

	World of Rugby League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Carlaw Park for many years was the home of New Zealand Rugby League and featured many of the memorable Kiwi moments including the 18-0 Test win against Australia in 1985.
		The clash of 1968 was a battle between the Sydney and Auckland premiers that year with the Rabbitohs edging out the Mt Albert club.
		Malta embraces rugby league in 36 to 6 defeat of England in Malta
	www.rleague.com - !http: //www.rleague.com/article.php?id=5076 (569 words)

	African Games -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		After the huge success of the association football (soccer) World Cup in 1994, the spotlight in 1995 turned to rugby, with the Union World Cup won by South Africa, the host, and the League World Cup, staged in Britain, confirming the supremacy of Australia.
		Despite the scheduling of biennial world championships, the Olympics retained their lustre for track and field athletes, and the Atlanta Olympics yielded performances of the highest calibre.
		The genuine heroes in the world arena of sports have been the amateur athletes—the men and women who play the games for love of country or to honor their school colors.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003939?tocId=9003939 (1024 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Rugby League \| Ray French \| Ray French: A profile
		But it is the very fact that he hit the heights as a player that make him such a respected figure in rugby league circles.
		Despite his strong affinity with league, Ray's rugby roots lie in the other code, beginning his playing career as a second row forward with union outfit St Helens and enjoying success at both club and international level.
		His playing career finally came to an end in 1972, but his association with rugby league was to only get stronger.
	sportalert.bbc.net.uk /sport1/hi/rugby_league/ray_french/2958737.stm (392 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Lsistings0301
		The downhill expert went on to become the 1997 Overall World Cup champion, the first Frenchman to win the title since Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.
		Although the World Cup was dominated by penalties it was by no means a simple affair.
		He is the only outfield player with five World Cup tournaments and who captained West Germany to the title in 1990.
	www.soccernet.com /listings/2003/0301 (650 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - McGeough takes the helm at Waterford
		McGeough, a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, spent six years as a player in England with Sheffield Wednesday (1962-67), before transferring to the League of Ireland to play with Derry F.C. (1968) and Waterford F.C. He replaces Paul Power, who resigned in December.
		Having lived in the United States for over twenty years, McGeough brings to the League of Ireland some strong credentials from the United States, where he was involved both as a player, following his departure from Waterford, and in more recent years as a Coach and Manager.
		He became available during the last week when Major League Soccer contracted their league and eliminated two of the Florida franchises from the 2002 series, including Tampa Bay Mutiny.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2002/0113/waterford.html (317 words)

	BBC SPORT \| TV/Radio Listings \| Sports Personality \| Sports Review 2004 \| Timeline: The sporting year
		In football Manchester United clinched the FA Cup while Porto won the Champions League and Valencia claimed the Uefa Cup.
		St Helens swept aside Wigan in rugby league's Challenge Cup final and Ronnie O'Sullivan was crowned snooker's world champion.
		Rugby league side Leeds overcame their bitter Yorkshire rivals Bradford 168 in a hardfought Grand Final.
	sportalert.bbc.net.uk /sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sports_personality_2004/sports_review_2004/4061433.stm (687 words)

	BBC News \| RUGBY LEAGUE \| Old Trafford named as final venue
		Manchester United's Old Trafford has been confirmed as the venue for rugby league's World Cup final next year.
		"It was vital that the best players from the world of rugby league had a stage that matched their abilities and the importance of the occasion," said tournament director Neil Tunnicliffe.
		The World Cup organisers have also unveiled the tournament's logo and the World Cup trophy which was last played for in 1968
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/sport/rugby_league/newsid_536000/536519.stm (155 words)

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