| | Rugby league - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Rugby league is one of the two forms of rugby, the other being rugby union. |
 | | In 1908 when the Australian Rugby Union team returned from a tour of the British Isles, for which the team had received three shillings a day for "out-of-pocket" expenses, 13 of the players immediately joined rugby league teams. |
 | | Rugby League, while a hugely popular professional and amateur sport in some regions of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, has struggled to assert itself as an international sporting code particularly in the aftermath of the disastrous Super League war for control of the code in the mid 1990s. |
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