The Northern Rugby Football Union. The Birth of Rugby League. 1895 to 1922 Style:Paperback Picture 11 - Club legend

Picture 11 - Club legend Paul Reaney with a copy of the book

From the early days and the first Challenge Cup success of 1914 to the triumphs of the 1980s and 90s

who played for Preston in that final remarked: "In many ways the Sunderland team of 1937 played the same brand of Total Football as the great Holland team of the 1970's

The fans pay

The Northern Rugby Football Union. The Birth of Rugby League. 1895 to 1922 Style:Paperback Picture 11 - Club legendOn Thursday 29th August 1895, 21 of the leading rugby union clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire met at the George Hotel in Huddersfield to discuss their long running disagreement with the rugby football union. Little did they know what was to follow. The clubs decided that they had suffered enough of the control of the southern gentry and formed their own northern rugby football union and split from the rugby football union. It was the beginning of a