Queensland Rugby Union

The Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) is the entity responsible for the Rugby to XV in the Australian State of the Queensland. For this reason, it is affiliated with the Australian federation of Rugby with XV, the Australian Rugby Union. Its seat is with Brisbane, the capital of the State. The QRU organizes two principal competitions of club, QLD the First Rugby which is opened with 12 clubs coming from all the State, and a championship reserved for the clubs of Brisbane. The QRU is represented by the team of the Queensland Reds in the Australian Provincial Championship and in the Super 14.

History of Rugby with XV in Queensland

Rugby is established in Brisbane in 1878, thanks to an English, Fred Lea, who discovers that only the Australian Football, or footy , was then practiced in Queensland. In 1880, he proposes with two clubs, Brisbane F.C (founded in 1867) and Wallaroo (founded in 1878), to test the rules of Rugby. During several years, the four clubs of Brisbane play with the two types of rules, but the footy remains the favorite.

In 1882, the Queensland faces for the first time a team of News-Wales-of-South and is inclined 4-28. The following year, the Southerners defied the players of Brisbane. Taking up the challenge, Fred Lea set up a team and gained an improbable victory (12-11) over the Waratahs, however broken with the rules of Rugby. This victory made much to popularize Rugby, and on November 2nd, 1883, in Brisbane, was founded the Northern Rugby Football Union , whose function was to organize the development of Rugby in the colony. The name was intended to distinguish the new entity from the Southern Rugby Union of the News-Wales-of-South.

Quickly, the two federations decided to organize an annual meeting between their representatives, which anchored Rugby in the spirit of the public, just like the arrival of British and New Zealand teams since 1888. On this date, Australian football started to lose adherence in Queensland, while Rugby extended to the medium-sized cities and small. That was also supported by the decision of the association of the schools of Queensland (Queensland Great Public Schools Association) to adopt Rugby like only collective sport for its pupils at the expense of the footy . The intra-school competitions, launched at that time, remain very popular at the time current.

In 1899, Queensland beats the team of the British Lions at the time of their first round in Australia (11-3).

In 1893, Northern Rugby Union became officially Queensland Rugby Union . This one had governed the first competition of clubs with Brisbane since 1884, but it is the Hospital Cup, launched in 1899, which became most prestigious. The trophy which rewarded its winner is decreed since 1928 with the champion of the State.

In 1908, the advent of the Rugby to XIII in the south, carried a severe blow to the Rugby of Queensland, a great number of players being naturally attracted by the prospect to become professional, whereas Rugby with XV remained attached to ethics amateur. In reaction, in 1908, the QRU prohibited with its players to go to Sydney to play there. The Queensland Rugby League was then created.

Rugby with XV failed to disappear with the First World War. Many men left for the face, others began with clubs of XIII, and the schools integrated the XIII in their activities at the expense of the XV. In 191, the QRU was purely and simply dissolved.

It had to be waited ten years so that it is reformed. In 1928, several clubs important and the schools returned to the XV. Slowly, Rugby with XV developed. In 1961, the Queensland Junior Rugby Union was created, and in 1963 the Country Rugby Union . In 1966, the QRU integrated buildings into Ballymore, where it is always after a passage by Bowen Hills, in the suburbs of Brisbane between 1997-2004.

The federation of Queensland counts approximately 50.000 players and 200 clubs, while more than 230 schools practice Rugby with XV.

Queensland Reds

See the article Queensland Reds

Competitions

Australian Rugby Championship

In 2007, a new professional competition is born, the Australian Rugby Championship, gathering eight teams of all the country. Queensland is represented there by two teams

QLD the First Rugby

QLD the First Rugby is the championship of elite of the clubs of the State. Each year, 10 clubs clash.

Championship of Brisbane

Larger Brisbane, capital and city of the State, shelters a very great number of clubs which clash in various competitions of young people with the seniors.

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Official site of the QRU

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