Rugby League

The sport of Rugby was divided into rival camps in 1895, when professional teams from the industrial north broke from the strictly amateur Rugby Union. These two forms of the game, Rugby Union and Rugby League, grew further apart into the separate codes with different rules played today in Britain and all over the world.

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