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to bypass the QFA and directly organise rugby tests with New South Wales. This angered the QFA and a motion was passed by the QFA secretary that effectively barred players found to be playing Rugby Union from playing at a Victorian Association club, effectively segregating the two codes for the first time since its inception. The move was to backfire as it antagonised its rugby members spurring them into action.
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Between 1885 and 1887, for the first time in the history of the colony, mainstream newspapers began to report rugby results first, followed by Victorian Association (Australian rules) and Anglo Football (soccer) and take a generally greater interest in rugby signalling the premier status of the code.
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Rugby members of the QFA became disgruntled with the Victorian Association's unwillingness to consider intercolonial matches. As a result of increasing pressure from the rugby fraternity to play representative matches against New South Wales, QFA clubs in 1883 voted annually as to whether to continue
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The grassroots rugby competition colloquially known as "Subbies" in Brisbane and South East Queensland is run by the Queensland Suburban Rugby Union (QSRU). The purpose of this competition is to provide community-based recreation for participants, irrespective of ability. It provides another tier of
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The year 1893 saw the Northern Rugby Union formally constituted and the name changed to the Queensland Rugby Union. The first organised Brisbane club competition had begun in 1887, but by 1899 the Boer War had reduced player numbers and, to counteract this, electorate rugby was initiated which only
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Rugby Union members were more than prepared to cover the costs of the shorter trip to Sydney. However Victorian Association officials from Melbourne showed apparent disinterest in sending teams to Queensland. After two Victorian rules tests against New South Wales Queensland rugby footballers began
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By 1882 newly formed football clubs in rural areas began to debate the adoption of either Australian or Rugby rules. Despite just a handful of rugby clubs being overwhelmed by the QFA's 50 senior Victorian association clubs, the push for representative matches saw the voice of the rugby fraternity
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As the NSWRU were keen to keep the inter-colony matches going, a NSW team journeyed to Brisbane in 1883. Trained in readiness by Fred Lea, the Queensland team ambushed the visitors and gained a victory over the New South Welshmen. The win gave rugby in Brisbane a huge boost, with many footballers
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Brothers were such a strong club in these years that they entered two teams "A" & "B" in the senior premiership in 1914 with the teams meeting each other in the Hospital Cup. Both sides were strong and contained internationals and interstate representative players. During these pre war years
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The decisive blow to Victorian rules came after the decision to make the NSW v Queensland matches an annual fixture, and the visit of a British rugby team in 1888. Teams from New Zealand soon followed. Unable to provide comparable attractions, Victorian rules lost its grip on Brisbane (the last
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had switched to rugby in 1885 and while continuing to play both codes pushed for the other Independent Schools to also. The association of Independent Schools headmasters in 1887 by 1 voted to adopt rugby exclusively feeling it would best represent Queensland's interests not to play a code with
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The Queensland Football Association was formed in April 1880 by both rugby and Victorian rules members. While vastly outnumbered by Victorian Association members rugby members lobbied the QFA to schedule matches on a Saturday every 4 weeks during the Victorian Association season, however due to
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football. Rugby continued to be played for three seasons. In 1870 Bonnet Rouge and Rangers folded in 1878 and Brisbane FC (which had periodically played both soccer and rugby as well) returned to playing ‘Victorian rules’ (formerly ‘Melbourne rules’). As a result, rugby was rarely played in the
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There are 200 clubs throughout the state and more than 235 Queensland schools - with many non-traditional rugby schools adopting the code as well. Queenlsand Rugby is held together by the strong and dedicated supporters. More than 8,000 volunteers work to support their clubs around the state.
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The Queensland State Cup was an early-season statewide premier competition that was run for just one season in 2009. It involved 16 Queensland teams; 9 Brisbane clubs and 7 teams based in the major sub-unions of Queensland Country. The competition ran prior to the Queensland Premier Rugby
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The year 1882 saw the first of many intercolony and interstate matches between Queensland and New South Wales rugby union teams. New South Wales took out the inaugural match, 28-4. The following year, Brisbane hosted its first intercolony match, defeating New South Wales 12-11 at the
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is the largest school boys rugby competition in Queensland. It was founded to promote the sport of rugby across rural and metropolitan Queensland. The winner of the 2012 Ballymore Cup in the open age went to Rockhampton Grammar, and in the under-15's St Brendan's College, Yeppoon.
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was the only football being organised. Lea took up the Victorian game, playing it in 1879-81. However, in 1880 he was able to sway two of the local clubs, Brisbane FC and Wallaroo (1878), to try rugby. Take-up of the code, however was initially very slow.
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With Fred Lea (who would be later called 'The Father of Queensland rugby') actively involved, it was decided to form the Northern Rugby Football Union now named Queensland Rugby Union (QRU). On 2 November 1883 a meeting was held at the Exchange Hotel, in
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Clubs for junior rugby players (up to 17 years of age) operate within the Queensland Junior Rugby Union (QJRU), which also holds state championships for representative teams from metropolitan and country regions.
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from the 1960s rugby experienced a golden era from the 1980s to 2000s. However it went into sharp decline in the 2010s and by 2018 was the least participated of the four major football codes in the state behind
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If that game (Rugby) takes root in the Brisbane schools, let alone Ipswich or other towns, then say good bye Melbourne, prepare your own epitaph, select your burial year and place, your death is nigh at hand.
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However, all was not lost. In 1928, the QRU reformed and the major clubs and GPS schools returned to union as a result of bickering amongst league officials and the Senior Club competition restarted in 1929.
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wanting to try the code. Enough players aligned with the rugby body to form two clubs. Filling the void left by the folding of Bonnet Rouge and Rangers, two new clubs, Fireflies and Wanderers were formed.
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1913 Qld Rep Rugby: Pat Murphy, Jimmy Flynn (2nd row 2nd from right), M J McMahon, R McManus, Hugh Flynn (Back row 3rd from right), Vin Carmichael, Tom Ryan, Bill Morrissey and Joe Russell (seated front).
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The first decade of the 20th century brought with it a drop in the fortunes of rugby union in Queensland. Electorate rugby collapsed in 1905 allowing for the return of club rugby, but the advent of the
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respectively. Both are managed by the QRU, with the coaching and training programs used at the Queensland Reds extended to players joining the NRC teams from the Reds and local Queensland clubs.
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The Queensland Rugby Football Schools Union (QRFSU) administers the game within Queensland schools and selects state teams for national championships at various age group levels, including the
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has eleven country sub-unions, each running their own club competitions during the year. The sub-unions are grouped into three regional divisions in Northern, Central, and Southern Queensland:
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though representative matches still attract a significant audience. The Union has been reluctant to publish participation figures in recent years and has been focused on rebuilding the code.
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The 1882 the QFA accepted a challenge to play intercolonial football against New South Wales. Rugby members of Brisbane FC instigated the move in contact with the Sydney Wallaroo club. The
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matches were played in 1890) and rugby union quickly spread throughout Queensland unopposed establishing strongholds in Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Maryborough, Gympie and Charters Towers.
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There are now more than 50,000 players throughout Queensland, including 8,600 seniors, 23,000 regular school players (more than any other state) and over 14,000 junior club players.
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Another club Wasps were formed the following year in 1884 and in 1885 Wallaroo (who had been playing both codes) announced it would drop Victorian rules to reform as a rugby club.
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Sub-union teams compete in Regional Championships against other teams in their regional division. Representative sides from the three regions are then selected to play at the
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In 1913 nine Christian Brothers' College Football Club (Brothers) players represented Queensland in the interstate clash in Sydney and helped the team to a 22 - 21 victory.
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code of rugby union could not offer. In 1908, the QRU banned its players from going to Sydney to play rugby league, which resulted in disgruntled players forming the
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Club competitions for women's 15-a-side teams are run in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Cairns. The Queensland Rugby Union sends a Queensland side to the ARU's
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saw the game struggle once more, but this time it was strong enough to pull through and rugby union continued to grow. In 1950, the QRU secured the use of
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The "Subbies" competition has around 1,000 players and 25 clubs competing across 3 divisions: As of 2014, the First Division clubs competing for the
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Townsville vs Charters Towers in 1895. Rugby rose dramatically in popularity in North Queensland in the 1890s after the collapse of the QFA.
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Club rugby in Brisbane starts at an Under 7 years of age level and goes right up to an open age group level just below the premier level.
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Fred Lea, an Englishman educated at Allesley College near Rugby in Warwickshire, arrived in Brisbane in 1878 and was amazed to find that
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to play regular fixtures including City-Country matches against Brisbane selections, and the "Battle of the Borders" Cup against the
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in 1879, Queensland's first football club shortly after it returned to Australian rules following a 3 year experiment with rugby
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who was Australia’s most successful Rugby captain. All of Queensland's Hall of Famers have also captained Australia and include
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allowed players to join the district club in the electorate in which they lived. An annual challenge trophy competition, the
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and the decision was made to form a rugby association in the Colony of Queensland. The name of the newly founded union the
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and also representative football holding maximum prestige in the state. With the establishment of a permanent new home at
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Wide Bay – selected from Bundaberg and District Rugby Union, plus teams from Fraser Coast, Gympie, and South Burnett.
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of the QRU in 1980. He stayed with the QRU until 1996 and saw the organisation grow from one person to 32 personnel.
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1899 - Queensland defeat Great Britain 11-3 at Exhibition Ground to record first win against an international team
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HRH The Duke of Edinburgh greeting the Queensland Rugby Union team at Ballymore Stadium, XII Commonwealth Games
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Just two rugby matches were played in Queensland in 1880. Three matches were played between the clubs in 1881.
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in 2014, reinstating the national competition after an absence of six years. The previous competition was the
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and in working class communities and these areas are still the heartland of the modern game of rugby league.
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1966 - Barraclough Shield played for the first time between Queensland (QSRU) and New South Wales (NSWSRU)
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1883 - First interstate match in Brisbane; Queensland beating NSW 12-11 at Eagle Farm Racecourse
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at Ballymore. In 1997, the administration arm moved to Mallon Street, in the Brisbane suburb of
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has traditionally been one of the most popular professional and recreational team sports in
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1987 - Ballymore hosts five inaugural World Cup matches including quarter and semi finals
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1929 - Revival of Club competition after code was inactive since start of First World War
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Rugby union in Queenlsand has seen extremely high growth since the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
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More of the Kangaroo: 150 Years of Australian Football in Queensland - 1866 to 2016
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staff, however, remained at Ballymore and were joined in 1998 by the staff of the
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The QSRU also selects a Queensland Suburban team to play an annual match against
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was introduced in 1899. This trophy is now the Premiership trophy contested by
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is currently the highest level competition in the state and equivalent to the
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Having paid a secretary to perform various tasks during the 1960s and 1970s,
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until it got its break in 1882 with the first inter-colonial matches against
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RUGBY UNION V. MELBOURNE ASSOCIATION The Brisbane Courier 10 May 1884 Page 6
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2013 - Queensland Suburban / Sub-Districts celebrate 50 years of competition
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Rugby breaks away from the QFA: Formation of the Northern Rugby Union (1883)
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in 1876. Initially it struggled to gain a foothold due to the popularity of
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insufficient numbers rugby play was infrequent in the first few seasons.
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Darling Downs Gazette 7 May 1884 Page 3 Occasional Notes from Brisbane
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competition. Due to logistical issues the competition has now ceased.
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to play rugby league and get paid in the process, something which the
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at Ballymore, bringing the entire organisation back to one location.
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Brothers also won the inaugural "College" grade competition in 1911.
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de Moore, Greg; Hess, Rob; Nicholson, Matthew; Stewart, Bob (2021).
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sees a "Nightmare wallabies revival" in time for the rugby world cup
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The ten clubs in the Brisbane Women's competition, as of 2014, are:
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each year. Queensland also selects 7-a-side teams to compete in the
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The teams are based in the same cities as the former ARC sides, the
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1883 - QRU formally constituted (known as the Northern Rugby Union)
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1876 - Earliest record of rugby football being played in Queensland
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Queensland's most notable product is Rugby Australia Hall of Famer
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wins Australian Super 12 player of the year for a record 4th year
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From 1980 to 1997, the QRU offices were located underneath the
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Ronald Lawson, University of Queensland Press, 1973, page 203
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under the Victorian Association or adopt Rugby Union rules.
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1982 - Queensland defeated NSW 41-7 in Centenary match
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1896 - First visit by a Queensland team to New Zealand
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