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  Rugby League
Rugby league was initially played by a breakaway faction of the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) known as the Northern Union.
Rugby League in New Zealand is under the control of the New Zealand Rugby League, which runs the national competition, the Bartercard Cup and the national team, the Kiwis.
Rugby league is played by two teams on a rectangular field with a length generally double the width.
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 List of official rugby league organisations - Biocrawler
List of official rugby league organisations - Biocrawler
This is a list of external links to organisations responsible for the governing of the sport or the governing of a competition of rugby league.
This page was last modified 12:31, 13 Apr 2005.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/List_of_official_rugby_league_organisations   (51 words)

  
  Rugby league - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby, the other being rugby union.
Rugby league's roots can be traced to early football history, like most forms of football, through the playing of ball games, which bear little resemblance to modern games.
Rugby league is played by two teams on a rectangular field with a length generally double the width.
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 RUGBY UNION : Encyclopedia Entry
A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (two halves of 40 minutes each) and is controlled by a referee, two touch judges, and in most professional matches, a television match official (TMO), commonly called the video referee.
Rugby Union, Rugby League, Rugby Sevens, American football and Canadian football are all descended from Rugby Football.
Rugby football has a claim to the world's first "football clubs": the Barnes Club (as it was known), formed in London in 1839, and Guy's Hospital Football Club (1843).
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 Info Page.
Rugby league is played both as a professional and amateur sport in some regions of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Rugby sevens is a variant of rugby football in which only seven players per side feature.
Rugby union sevens is sanctioned by the International Rugby Board (IRB), and is played under substantially the same rules and on a field of the same dimensions as the 15-player game.
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 directopedia : Directory : Sports : Football : Rugby Union
Rugby union is a team sport that was developed from the rules used to play football at Rugby School in England.
Rugby union is the national sport of New Zealand, Wales, and Pacific countries such as Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa.
The legendary story about the origin of Rugby football, whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis "took the ball in his arms (ie caught the ball) and ran" while playing football at Rugby School is almost certainly a complete fiction.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Sports-Football/Rugby_Union.shtml   (3966 words)

  
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In collegiate and professional leagues, the extra point is usually preferred; its success rate is 94% in the NFL and 93.8% in the NCAA, compared to 43% in the NFL and 43.5% in the NCAA for two-point conversions.
Rugby was first introduced to North America in Canada, brought by the British Army garrison in Montreal which played a series of games with McGill University.
There is a widespread perception that football teams based in schools and public recreational leagues consume far more than their fair share of the sports budget, although sales of tickets to college (and to some extent high school) football games often make it a revenue-producing sport.
www.solarnavigator.net /sport/american_football.htm   (5465 words)

  
 Australian Sports Commission - Sports directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Australian sports industry directory offers contacts for sporting organisations in Australia as well as those involved in the sporting industry, including equipment manufacturers, fitness centres, media contacts, marketing, insurance, hospitality, legal, photographic, merchandising and public relation contacts, school and university sport contacts, sports medicine centres, venue suppliers and professional and trade associations.
A list of sporting organisations and their recognised status by the Australian Sports Commission is also available.
The directory lists national bodies, state sporting organisations can be located in the State Directories (listed on the right) maintained by the various state and territory departments responsible for sport.
www.ausport.gov.au /sportdirectory/default.asp   (270 words)

  
 Celtic League in UK Net Guide: Sports & Leisure
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Comment: Established in 1875, this is one of the oldest and most famous rugby clubs in the UK.
Comment: The All Whites were founded in 1873 and later became one of the eleven founder clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881.
www.uknetguide.co.uk /Sports/Rugby_Union/Celtic_League.html   (591 words)

  
 Rleague.com - The World of Rugby League
When it comes to the Internet, this medium has given Rugby League fans all around the globe instant access to news, results and other fans right at their finger tips, and has also been a haven for growth for the game.
League's administration approach to the Internet has always been negative and unsupportive apart from their own bland, commercialised official sites which supporters generally only use for a quick fix of news and information relating to the specific club or competition.
It is one of the great things to happen for rugby league and should receive the credit it deserves from those people too narrow-minded to see otherwise.
www.rleague.com /db/article.php?id=22698   (2030 words)

  
 Brisbane Rugby League History
The first club season of Rugby League began in Brisbane on 8 May 1909 with the founding clubs being North Brisbane, Toombul, Valley, South Brisbane and later on Milton.
The matches were player at the Brisbane Cricket Ground and were under the control the Queensland Rugby Football League (QRFL and later QRL).1 In 1918 the Western suburbs club was stripped of its premiership points by the QRL for playing an unregistered Sydney player, Rickety Johnson.
The issues that drove the 'breakaway' were the dictatorial attitude of the QRL and the lack of compensation for the players.2 The BRL grew in strength combating a QRL attempt to win back control in 1923-24.3 The original teams were Brothers, Carltons, University, Valley and the Grammars club was added the next season.
www.rl1908.com /Rugby-League-News/Brisbane-History.htm   (2023 words)

  
 Index page
Based in Rugby, Warwickshire, we are a friendly and fun club catering for all players of all ages, levels and nationalities.
The fixture list for the matches for the 2006 / 2007 season for both the Women's Division 1 or Men's Division 2 squads is attached as at 08.12.2006.
Rugby Phoenix Volleyball Club offers local organisations and individuals the opportunity to promote their business by sponsoring the club, individual players or teams.
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 Rleague.com - The World of Rugby League
Rugby League has copped plenty of flack for ignoring the fans and many have tried to paint rugby union as the good guys.
Rugby union has always been a game for the select few and with attitudes like this will thankfully remain a minor sport in Australia.
Tetleys Super League: St Helens by 18, Bradford by 6, Castleford by 22, Wigan by 20, London by 4 and Hull FC by 14.
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 StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats
StatCounter organises all this information into charts & lists to make your analysis easier..
I run websites for a number of voluntary organisations.
Primary criteria for anything I use is that it must be minimum cost - preferably free.
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 CNNSI.com - Rugby Union - English rugby damaged by yet another crisis - Wednesday November 22, 2000 10:52 AM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The players resolved their differences over pay with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) but it is highly unlikely that English rugby has seen its last battle off the field.
Just three weeks ago the future of English domestic rugby was thrown into doubt when former international Rob Andrew quit two key organisations because RFU officials had failed to implement his much-vaunted blueprint for the game.
New Zealand professional rugby players have formed a union and are currently negotiating with NZRFU for a collective employment contract to cover terms and conditions.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /rugby/news/2000/11/22/eng_strike_review   (761 words)

  
 England rugby news, commentary, fun, fixtures, results, downloads and features from Planet-Rugby.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The French league and French rugby federation have - not entirely quietly, but they have - come to an agreement where everybody is happy and where the clubs can conquer Europe again, Bernard Laporte can prepare for the Rugby World Cup, and where French rugby in general is just settled.
It is a mark of respect for the seniority of its position in the rugby hierarchy.
Perhaps the organisation should be re-named so that the acronym is a noun and the words describe the situation that the RFU is getting English rugby into.
www.planet-rugby.com /Teams/England/story_52423.shtml   (1357 words)

  
 CLONAKILTY - IRELAND : "RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The official opening of the Clubhouse was performed by Tom Kiernan during a week long celebration of rugby from 21st - 29th April, 1990 culminating in an exhilarating match played by many of rugby's household names here in Ireland as well as in Wales.
Clonakilty Rugby Club is very fortunate in having access to a number of communications outlets which greatly help spreading of the 'gospel' on a regular basis.
Clonakilty Rugby Club has grown rapidly and successfully to a level where it is a major contributor to the social fabric of the surrounding area.
www.clon.ie /clonrfc.html   (2475 words)

  
 Sport links - Internet links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It includes details about the organisation of sport in Australia, event calendars, information about the structure of sport in Australia and topics and issues in sport.
The publications of the Australian Society for Sports History are included, along with official reports from the Olympic Games and the journals of international sports organisations.
Find information on teams, international organisations, leagues, tournaments, a specific sport, coaching, world competitions, regional sports, historical information, current events.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au /links/sport.cfm   (487 words)

  
 Speeches of Major-General J.N. Garba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I appeal to all Governments and organisations to take appropriate action in support of the oppressed people of South Africa in their common endeavour to reject and defeat this latest racist conspiracy and to secure the establishment of a non-racial society on the basis of majority rule.
The Tunis Conference, organised by the Special Committee, in cooperation with the League of Arab States, from 7 to 9 August 1984, was attended by well over a hundred participants, including representatives of Arab Governments and a large spectrum of Arab non-governmental organisations.
The Lagos Seminar was organised by the Special Committee, in co-operation with the Federal Government of Nigeria, from 13 to 16 August 1984.
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 FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
The students who are successful will be awarded with the prestigious diploma in the presence of officials from the three teaching institutions and top sports personalities.
In addition to teaching specialists from various universities, a large proportion of the content of the programme is delivered directly by some top sports executives, including key FIFA directors and managers, football club executives, international federation and IOC directors, and many more senior managers from a wide range of sports organisations.
List of 44 referees preselected for 2006 FIFA World Cup
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All this talk about the UN being an imperialist organisation seems to ignore much of the history of how the UN was set up - largely by the winners of World War Two, who were determined, especially Roosevelt, to make sure that imperialism, would vanish from the world.
DOn't you understand even the most elementary thing about imperialism, that it is the main enemy, and when it attacks a semi-colony we defend the semi-colony, even to the extent of militarily blocking with the national bourgeoisie, maintaining the armed independence of the working class.
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 VL of Sport - Rugby Union
He represented Australia in rugby union from 1979 to 1984 being capped 25 times, 10 as captain, toured with the Wallabies on eight occasions as well as representing Australia at the Hong Kong Sevens between 1979 and 1984.
International Rugby Academy of New Zealand located at the adidas Institute of Rugby in Palmerston North and the Royal New Zealand Police College on the outskirts of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.
Womans Rugby teams are often part of the university's rugby club or sometimes because of an almagamation of the university club and another club in the area, are part of another club
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 Rugby league - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In areas of Australia and New Zealand where rugby league predominates, the game is commonly known as league, football or simply footy.
However, early 21st century developments have seen Georgia, Germany, Estonia, Malta, Serbia, Argentina, Jamaica, Samoa, Tonga and others take part in international rugby league tournaments or matches.
Rugby League Review - If it's Rugby League, we've got it covered!
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 Canada encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Canada politics and officials, Canadian History. Travel to Canada
Canada encyclopedia : Cultural Information, Maps, Canada politics and officials, Canadian History.
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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 StudentZone - Sport - Rugby
Rugby League News - provided by Sporting Life
University of Leicester Rugby League Club - Currently playing in the Student Rugby League National league
If your favourite rugby page is missing from the above list, then please send us the URL and we will include it as soon as possible.
www.studentzone.org.uk /sport/rugby.html   (89 words)

  
 Here's a catalogue of websites for the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
This is a short list, for Corsicans are not often self publicists.
Here is a list of them that you can download by clicking here.
Below is the official list and then links to several, as well as details of smaller and less publicised ones.
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 Topica Email List Directory
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Rugby league clubs are set to benefit from a cash injection of
Email lists are great for debating issues or publishing your views.
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 Leeds Tykes || TykesRugby.co.uk - Unofficial Leeds Tykes Message Board
Send interesting Leeds Rugby related stuff to the editors at:
This site is run independently of all external organisations, and readers and posters are referred to the websites of Leeds Rugby and the LTSA for their respective official views.
SportNetwork.net is part of the Durham Associates Group of companies.
www.sportnetwork.net /boards/list/s102.htm   (237 words)

  
 Pontyclun Rugby & Sports Club - Links to Others   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
We currently have links to all the Welsh Clubs that are known to us, together with several other Rugby Clubs and many other organisations with a local or rugby interest that have web-sites.
We are in the process of checking the validity of the addresses and would welcome your input to allow us to correct omissions and errors
A selection of higher profile clubs, and others that have a reciprocal link to our site.
www.pontyclunrfc.co.uk /rlinks.htm   (128 words)

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