History
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The Challenge Cup trophy. |
- All Time Records
- Summary of the all time great individual and team performances in
British Rugby League
- The First Season
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The Northern Union kicked off on Saturday September 7th., 1895
- The First Challenge Cup
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Soon after its formation, the Northern Union decided a grand
trophy would be appropriate. In 1897, the Challenge Cup was born
- Pioneering Tourists
- New Zealand's "All Golds" of 1907 started the great
tradition of international football
- All Four Cups
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Only three clubs in the history of Rugby League have won all
four competitions during the same season.
- The Team of All Talents
- No-one expected Hunslet's feat of winning
All Four Cups in 1907-08 would ever be matched. But just seven years
later Huddersfield were to do just that with perhaps the greatest team
Rugby League has ever seen.
- Rorke's Drift
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1914: "You are playing in a game of football this
afternoon, but more than that, you are playing for England and more,
even, you are playing for Right versus Wrong. You will win because you
have to win. Don't forget that message from home: England expects
every man to do his duty."
- Jack Harrison VC, MC
- Lieutenant Jack Harrison, a Hull winger, brought honour to the
Northern Union code when he was awarded the Victoria Cross and the
Military Cross while on active service in France during the Great War,
in which he gave his life.
- The "Indomitables"
- The "Indomitables", captained by
Gus Risman
and named after the warship in which they sailed, were the first
tourists Down Under after the Second World War
- The Biggest Crowd
- Most commentators expected around 70,000 at Bradford's Odsal
Stadium for the 1954 Challenge Cup Final replay. What followed echoed
Wembley's "White Horse Final" of thirty years earlier.
- Prescott's Epic
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1958: In the crucial Second Test in Brisbane,
Alan
Prescott and his Great Britain team levelled the Ashes series one-all,
with a 25-18 win in which the captain played with a broken arm for all
but the first three minutes.
- Commemorative Stamps
- The Centenary of the game in 1995 was marked with the issue of a
commemorative set of stamps by Royal Mail based on the Hall of Fame.
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