High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901, and which dropped out of the English leagues in 2004 as a result of the effects of professionalism. They were based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.Wakefield RFC was founded in 1901, six years after the schism in rugby that saw the formation of the Northern Union and the move of Wakefield Trinity, who had been the principal rugby club in the city, to the new code.On 15 June 1901, the Wakefield Express printed a short notice: A movement is on foot to form a new Rugby football club on purely amateur lines to play under Rugby Union rules, and a meeting to promote that object has been called . One of the clubs first vice presidents was former England and British Lion international Osbert Mackie.