Myth and reality in the 1895 rugby split

Sports Historian

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-41

  Collins, Tony ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85011457747     PISSN: 13515462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17460269609446392     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Otley joined the Northern Union in 1900 and played in it for six seasons before disbanding. They were reformed as a rugby union club in 1907.
2. Details of rugby union membership are taken from the Yorkshire Post for the appropriate years. For the 1904 comparison, see the Northern Union Official Guide 1904/05 (Manchester 1904) and OLD Oew, The History of the RFU (London: Playfair, 1955).
3. HWT Garnett speaking at the October 1886 RFU annual general meeting.
4. See the correspondence of Arthur Shrewsbury for more details. This is kept at Nottinghamshire CCC HQ at Trent Bridge.
5. Myth and Reality in the 1895 Rugby Split
6. Yorkshire Owl 18 November 1895.
7. See my “Noa Mutton, noa laaking, The origins of payment for play in rugby football” in International Journal of the History of Sport, volume 12, number 1 (April 1995), pp. 33-50.
8. G Rowland Hill speaking at the 1897 RFU annual general meeting.
9. For example, see Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players (New York: New York University Press, 1979), p199.
10. and Gareth Williams, “Rugby Union” in Sport in Britain: A social history (London: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p313.
11. The Yorkshireman Football Number March 1891.
12. The vote was eventually overturned in favour of a switch to association football, the club joining the Southern League later that year.