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	Bambooweb: Northern Rugby Football Union
		The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for Rugby League in the United Kingdom.
		It adopted the name Rugby Football League in 1922.
		The name Rugby Football League also refers to the main league competition run by the organisation.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/n/o/Northern_Rugby_Football_Union.html (138 words)

	Rugby Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for Rugby League in the United Kingdom.
		It adopted the name Rugby Football League in 1922.
		The name Rugby Football League also refers to the main league competition run by the organisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Rugby_Football_Union (168 words)

	Rugby football - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rugby Union ranks as the national sport of Wales, of New Zealand and of Pacific countries such as Tonga, Fiji and Samoa.
		An old saying goes "Soccer is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen." Rugby union has a quite common image as a gentleman's sport: most private schools in rugby-playing regions play the union version of the game (often along with sports such as fencing and boxing).
		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.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /rugby_football.htm (2023 words)

	Rugby union article - Rugby union football Rugby School England ruck maul International Rugby - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 Wales, New Zealand and Pacific countries such as Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa.
		For the next few years rugby clubs continued to agree rules before the start of each game as they had always done, but on January 26, 1871, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) formed, leading to the standardisation of the rules for all clubs in England that played a variety of the Rugby School laws.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Rugby_union (2414 words)

	Irish Rugby Football Union - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) is the body managing rugby football in Ireland.
		The Irish Football Union and a rival North of Ireland Football Union were formed in 1874.
		This lead to the unique situation among international rugby teams, where the Irish representative teams are drawn from players from two separate political territories the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom (which Northern Ireland is part of).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Irish_Rugby_Football_Union (216 words)

	Northern Football Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Northern Football Conference (NFC) was formed in 1954 as the Northern Ontario Rugby Football Union (NORFU).
		The league and intermediate football also had to be sold to the communities as a spectator sport and this was accomplished by the manner in which the clubs staged intermediate football games.
		Its status is intact as the oldest senior amateur football league in Canada and a reputation as a leader for football in Ontario and Canada.
	nfcfootball.ca /league-history.shtml (3132 words)

	Rugby Football League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for (additional info and facts about Rugby League) Rugby League in the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom.
		The amateur game is administered in association with the (additional info and facts about British Amateur Rugby League Association) British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA).
		The name Rugby Football League also refers to the (additional info and facts about main league competition) main league competition run by the organisation.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/rugby_football_league.htm (314 words)

	Rugby football biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Blackheath Rugby Club, in London, founded in 1858, is the oldest surviving non-university rugby club.
		The club is also important in the history of association football (soccer): as Blackheath Football Club, it was a founder member of the Football Association (FA) in 1863.
		Nevertheless, the origins of the North American codes of football are illustrated by the fact that the Canadian Football League was originally known as the "Canadian Rugby Football Union", when it was founded in 1884.
	www.biography.ms /Rugby_football.html (1862 words)

	Rugby Football Union - Simple Detail
		In the 15th and 16th centuries it was banned because of the damage caused by the participants and also because it interfered with the practice of archery - vital to the defence of the country before the development of gunpowder.
		The Scots formed their own Rugby Union in 1873; the Irish Rugby Union was formed in 1879 and the Welsh Rugby Union in 1880.
		The official governing body is the Rugby Football Union for Women which was formed in 1994 with the dissolution of the Great Britain Women's RFU.
	www.rfu.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.Simple_Detail/StoryTypeId/26/SectionId/43 (2083 words)

	rugby francais
		rugby football, sera codifiée pour la première fois en 1846 par les élèves, puis le 8 décembre 1863, à Cambridge, par les étudiants de cette université, tous d'anciens élèves de Rugby.
		Peu à peu, le rugby, jusque là réservé aux élites, gagne toutes les couches sociales.
		le Rugby à sept : adapté du XV ou du XIII
	www.rugby-francais.com (1069 words)

	Rugby Football
		The legendary origin of Rugby football, whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis 'picked up the ball and ran', while playing football at Rugby School is often considered to be a myth.
		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'.
		On January 26 1871, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) was formed, leading to the standardisation of the rules for all clubs that played a variety of the Rugby School laws.
	artzia.com /Recreation/Sport/Rugby (833 words)

	Official Northern Football Conference Web-Site
		In 1958 the Northern Ontario Rugby-Football Union instituted the Most Valuable Player award, in 1960 it instituted the Lineman of the Year award, and, in 1963 it instituted the Leo Troy Trophy, named in honour of long time executive and league supporter Leo Troy, for the Rookie of the Year award.
		The name change was to coincide with the year in which the parent Canadian Rugby Union renamed itself to the Canadaian Football League and designed to follow the lead established by the professional leagues a few years earlier.
		The change to four down football was accepted because of the adoption of this rule by many of the high school leagues in Ontario.
	cybersudbury.com /sports/spartans/nfc-full-history.html (2988 words)

	Northern Football Club - Home Page
		Bob Carruthers, the main financier in the consortium who took over the running of Edinburgh almost exactly a year ago, has launched a withering attack on the Scottish Rugby Union.
		The Scottish Rugby Union is threatening to close Edinburgh down, according to the club's owner Bob Carruthers
		The long-running dispute between Edinburgh and the Scottish Rugby Union took a dramatic turn when two of the club's senior officials resigned following the breakdown of talks with the governing body.
	www.northernfc.co.uk (160 words)

	Leagueunlimited.com Rugby League Statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Football has it's origins in antiquity when village competition allowed players to get the 'ball' through the opponent's goal by running it, kicking it or punching it.
		The hard line line taken by the Rugby Union made it almost impossible for the working-class man to play the game, and this created a wedge between the north and south of England.
		Delegates from nine Lancashire and 12 Yorkshire rugby union clubs met in Hudderfield and formally break away from the Rugby Union and form a new, independent body: the Northern Union.
	stats.leagueunlimited.com /history.asp (1951 words)

	Rugby Football Union -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Similar unions were organized during the next few years in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, France, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S. Among the Union's chief activities are conferences, organizing...
		Rugby's distinctive features are (1) that players may use their hands and catch, throw, or run with the ball in addition to maneuvering it with their feet, as in football (soccer), and (2) the use of the scrum, or scrummage, which is a method of...
		Football is a game in which two teams of 11 players each try to move a ball, by running with it or passing it, across the other team's goal.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064386?tocId=9064386 (850 words)

	Rugby League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Rugby League was founded it wasn't professional, its rules were no different to rugby union - and it wasn't even called Rugby League.
		The Northern Union, as it was initially known, rose out of the economic and class differences between the rulers of Rugby Union and the strongest northern clubs.
		Changes governing what happened on the field had started before that - the line-out was abolished as early as 1897 and by 1906 league had taken on the 13-a-side format and the play-the-ball after a tackle that remain fundamental to it.
	www.playtheball.com /history/histearly.asp (410 words)

	rugby football union
		SNOWDON SPORTS is a major source of RUGBY UNION results and statistical information in England, with a mix of national and regional media among our clients.
		rugby football union 7's arlfc barbarians blue bulls bobby skinstad bristol shoguns csbj gareth edwards george gregan haka halbro irb jason robinson joe worsley johnny wilkinson jonah lomu leeds...
		The Northern California Rugby Referee Society is a member of the Northern California Rugby Football Union and provides referees and touch judges for rugby matches in northern California and...
	www.sportinworld.com /rugby/rugbyfootballunion (765 words)

	Rugby Football League -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Originally called the Northern Rugby Football Union (popularly Northern Union), it was formed when 22 clubs from Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire left the Rugby Football Union over the question of compensation for loss of wages sustained by players while participating in games.
		Gridiron football evolved from English rugby and soccer (association football); it differs from soccer chiefly in allowing players to touch, throw, and carry the ball with their hands, and it differs from rugby in allowing each side to control the ball in alternating...
		Coverage of rugby, football, and cricket in the country.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064385?tocId=9064385 (848 words)

	Netscape Search Category - Canadian
		Football Manitoba Football Manitoba is the governing body for Football in Manitoba.
		Okanagan Sun Football Club The Okanagan Sun Football Club is operated by the Okanagan Mainline Football Society.
		Thunder Bay Storm Football Team - CSFL The Thunder Bay Storm Football Team are part of the 14 Team Canadian Senior Football League (CSFL).
	search-intl.netscape.com /Sports/Football/Canadian?style=subcat_ca (389 words)

	UCDavis Women's Rugby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		USA Rugby has eight territory area unions (TUs), Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union (PCRFU) being one of those eight.
		The LAU' in PCRFU are Northern California Rugby Football Union, Pacific Northwest Rugby Football Union, Arizona Rugby Football Union, and Utah Rugby Football Union.
		UC Davis Women's Rugby competes in the Northern California Rugby Football Union (NCRFU).
	sportclubs.ucdavis.edu /womens-rugby/league_info.htm (155 words)

	ipedia.com: Irish Rugby Football Union Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Irish Rugby Football Union is the body managing Rugby football in Ireland.
		The IRFU was formed in 1879 as an amalgamation of the Irish Football Union and the Northern Football Union of Ireland.
		This lead to the unique situation among international rugby teams, where the Irish representative teams are drawn from players from two countries Repulic of Ireland and United Kingdom (which Northern Ireland is part of).
	www.ipedia.com /irish_rugby_football_union.html (171 words)

	☞ Internet guide - Sports - Football - Rugby League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1895, when 12 clubs decided to split from the Northern Rugby Football Union, few could have envisaged that 100 years later, the game of rugby league would become the second most popular spectator sport in Britain and spread as far and wide as Australia, New Zealand and even Papua New Guinea.
		Two teams take part in a game of rugby league with 13 players on each team at "kick off".
		Each team also have 4 substitutes/replacements available to bring on at any appropriate moment in the game.
	www.guide.vang.net /Guide/Sports/Football/Rugby_League (200 words)

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