Both the ARL and Super League competitions ran parallel to each other that year. [8], A similar schism to that which occurred in England, and for similar reasons, opened up in the rugby union establishment of Australia, seeing the term "rugby league" first used for the new game as in the rest of the world, in 1907 at the instigation of the famous test cricketer Victor Trumper. Considered to be the pinnacle of schoolboy & U18 rugby in Australia, the team plays in fixtures against other national representative schoolboy teams from around the world. However, it is not customary for women over the age of 11 to continue playing rugby league against the boys and the exclusively women's rugby league clubs have a relatively small profile in comparison to the local boys' clubs. The 2012 State of Origin series' third and deciding game set a new record for the highest television audience in Australia for a rugby league match since the introduction of the OzTam ratings system in 2001.[34]. In 1914 and 1915 an amalgamation of rugby league and Australian rules football was considered and trialled. [4] In 2009, it was the most watched sport on Australian television eclipsing the AFL nationally for the first time with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers. The legal hand-over from ARL to ARL Commission ensured that the game has effectively had the same governing body across Australia, since 1924. [28] South Australia has the lowest participation levels for mainland Australia and Tasmania has, by far, the least participants for rugby league in the entire nation. In 1986, Brisbane Rugby League player Bob Lindner was the last to be selected from a non-NSWRL club to debut for the Australian national team. Victoria and Western Australia have roughly an equal number of participants with Western Australia higher per capita, though Victoria has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, especially in school based rugby league participation which registered 33,444 participants in 2008. In 2007, the number of teams competing in first grade rugby league in Australia increased for the first time since 2002 with the re-introduction of the Gold Coast Titans in Gold Coast, Queensland. In 2009 the Australian National Women's rugby league side (Jillaroos) defeated the 2008 Women's Rugby League World Champions New Zealand, in Auckland, ending a ten-year streak of successive defeats at the hands of the New Zealand team. On completion of mod league, players make a move to full international rugby league laws. [9] Players were immediately recruited for the new game, and despite the threat of immediate and lifetime expulsion from the rugby union, the NSWRFL managed to recruit Herbert "Dally" Messenger, the most famous rugby footballer in Sydney at that time.The visit by James Giltinan, Harry Hoyle, and Victor Trumper on Sunday 11 August 1907 to gain the agreement of Dally Messenger's mother, Annie Messenger, for him to switch to the new code is part of Rugby League folklore. Famous Australian writers throughout history such as Banjo Paterson, Thomas Keneally and Kenneth Slessor have produced literature about the game.[33]. Recent research by the University of New South Wales has shown that 2% of parents are likely to discourage their son from playing rugby league. In the 1995 State of Origin series, the ARL forbade the players of those eight clubs from participating in the interstate competition. [17], Arthur Beetson became the first indigenous Australian to captain the national team of any sport when in 1973 he was selected to lead the Kangaroos. At a junior and local level there are many women involved in volunteering positions. Rugby league has been described as "an iconic Australian sport"[32] and has therefore featured prominently in Australian popular culture. The NSWRFL Premiership spread outside Sydney in 1982 with the introduction of the Illawarra Steelers and Canberra Raiders. [10], Rugby league then went on to displace rugby union as the primary football code in New South Wales. On 8 May 1909 the first match of rugby league was played in Brisbane. In achieving this, ARL Development has developed new modified codes that gradually introduce children to rugby league. Amateur competitions are run in the Affiliated states. Super League successfully attracted eight of the ARL clubs.[3]. Sat 28 Sep, 2019 George Ball was the first secretary of the Board and John La Maro the first chairman. Plenty of Wallabies and familiar names in the list. ARLD schools programs have directly involved more than 1,000,000 children in rugby league-based physical activities by in 2008. The Nine Network had paid $5,000 for the broadcasting rights. In 2009, rugby league's popularity in Australia was confirmed as it had the highest television ratings of any sport. Also that year NSWRFL boss Kevin Humphreys negotiated rugby league's first television deal with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Tomorrow, we’ll being you the 1994-2003 teams. Country Rugby League, Queensland At a meeting in Bateman's Crystal Hotel in Sydney, New South Wales, the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) was formed as a professional organisation. The State of Origin series is one of Australia's premier sporting events, attracting a huge television audience and usually selling out the stadiums in which the games are played. [26], Polling conducted by Roy Morgan Research indicated that in 2014 the NRL was second only to the AFL in terms of football television viewship.[27]. These lists have been compiled using the ASRU archives. The ARL controlled high-profile club competitions like the National Rugby League and National Youth Competition as well as annual representative competitions such as the State of Origin series, the Indigenous All Stars Match, City vs Country Origin and the Affiliated States Championship. Former governing body of rugby league in Australia, Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League, Australian Police Rugby League Association, "Australian Rugby Football League 2008 Annual Report", New contract for Gallop as commission prepares to take the reins, "Professionalization of New Zealand Rugby Union: Historical Background, Structural Changes and Competitive Balance", Gold Coast-Tweed Giants / Gold Coast Seagulls / Gold Coast Chargers, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Rugby_League&oldid=982123567, Rugby league governing bodies in Australia, Use Australian English from February 2014, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 09:02.

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