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The Kangaroos struggled through the tour, losing 22 of the 45 matches they played. The tour also failed financially, and the players' return passage had to be paid for by the Northern Union.
Returning from a successful tour of England, players from the Wallabies Australian Rugby Union representative side were enticed to play against a representative league side, despite the threat of being banned from playing rugby union. In a series of 4 matches, the Wallabies and Kangaroos finished level, with two wins apiece. But rugby league was the winner, as the majority of the Wallabies' leading players defected to league, giving the new code a massive injection of talent.
After struggling through its first 2 years of competition, rugby league consolidated its position in Growing attendances at club games, interstate matches and international fixtures reflected the game's growing popularity and financial stability. The highlight of the year was a visit by a touring English side, which was followed by an Australasian tour of Britain in — Download historian Sean Fagan's League of Legends catalogue extract for more on the beginnings of the game.
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The game begins. A key aspect of the new code was that players would be paid for playing the game. All golds A catalyst for the establishment of a breakaway code was the visit to Sydney of a professional New Zealand side in August Early supporters.
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The National Rugby League. It has been said that rugby league is a gentleman's game played by thugs and rugby union is a thug's game played by gentlemen. Unlike union, league doesn't have the mess of players that allows for dirty play such as eye gouging, biting ears, grabbing testicles or stomping on hands.
Aside from the odd finger in the date, rugby league has generally been free of the dirty play seen in union. Considering the nature of rugby union, it is a little unusual that it has managed to maintain a gentleman's image for more than a century and a half. This unusual outcome is best explained by union's history as an amateur sport. As an amateur sport, union attracted well-educated players that didn't need to rely upon the sport for their income. Today, professionalism is slowly resulting in its boganisation.
The first rugby club formed in Australia was the Sydney University Club in In a Sydney metropolitan competition was established with the new league being administered from Twickenham, England. The new league suffered a blow in when the powerful 'Waratah' Rugby Club invited Carlton an Aussie rules club to play two matches, one each under union and Australian rules. For many Sydney football fans, union was slow and unattractive and the Waratah club hoped to make the point in a direct comparison with the Australian game.
For the next three decades, the two codes battled for the hearts and minds of Sydney siders. Union used its influence in the corridors of power to have Australian football banned from Sydney's enclosed grounds.
As a consequence, Australian football was unable to raise money to pay players or promote the code. In a 19th century cartoon, the Mayor of Melbourne was mocked for using a visit by a rugby union team to pour scorn on the Australian code.
Meanwhile, in the s in England, working class rugby union players started demanding payment to cover the work days they lost due to injury. When the administration refused, in , they broke away to form rugby league with an emphasis on making the game more attractive to paying spectators. Specifically, it did away with the lineout, focussed on running rugby and made the scum nothing more than an excuse to sniff bums.
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