Today is the 125th anniversary of the momentous meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield, at which the Northern Union was formed.
Not many sports can pinpoint exactly when and where they were founded.
The circumstances in which our sport was born, to address social and regional unfairness and to challenge the establishment, surely provide Already a subscriber? Log in here
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