Rugby League in Wales

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rugby league is a sport played in Wales. The governing body of the game in Wales is the Wales Rugby League. There is a long history of rugby league in Wales. Over the decades many hundreds of players have "gone north" to play for the leading English clubs. Consequentially the national side, nicknamed the Dragons, have often been a very strong force in the international game. Rugby football was an increasingly popular sport for Wales in the 1890s and particularly in the south where its popularity was known to rival that of association football. The Welsh coal miners shared the same working class ethos of the miners from the northern counties of England. The impending schism of 1895 tore apart the English rugby union and in the early 1900s, the shock waves where being felt in rugby worldwide, including Wales, though the Welsh Rugby Union were less strict in their interpretation of the amateur ethos and avoided a schism.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131250750
• ISBN-10: 6131250758
• Artikelnr.: 30041258