History site links

[Anonymous]

If anyone has any links to sport history websites, please feel free to put them here.

We're most interested in Ruby League but feel free to add anything that you think might be of interest.

 

[Anonymous]

I have a few to start the ball rolling:

St George Dragons
http://www.showroom.com.au/dragons/dragonshistory/

Rugby League Tables
http://cromulent.freehosting.net/rl/rl_index.html

Web of Steel - Illawarra Steelers
http://www.concreteboots.com/illawarrarlhistory.htm

RL1908
http://www.rl1908.com

 

[CanadianSteve]

http://www.cfl.ca/CFLArchives/home.html

The history page of the Canadian Football League website. Some interesting bits on how the game evolved from rugby, separately from the US game.

 

[terracesider]

In no particular order:

The Rorke's Drift Test, 1914 An account of the most famous RL test match.

Dead Rugby League Club Society Of interest, but questionable judgements. I thought the Bluebags were still alive or is there no life outside the NRL?

Jim Devereaux A lecture from the University of NSW.

The Vault Results down the years.

Greek RL I found this by accident. Illustrates the spread of RL throughout the world.

France An academic paper on the history of French.

GB Hall of Fame

The RFL's new website which contains a historical section

The rest I have, which is not very much, consists of a few single pages or even paragraphs from clubs' official sites. As far as I can work out, the history of RL is not very well served on the web. However, I hope the above links are useful.

 

[Anonymous]

Dead Rugby League Club Society Of interest, but questionable judgements. I thought the Bluebags were still alive or is there no life outside the NRL?

I found that site to be a seriuosly flawed site. They deal with queries by attempting to ridicule the writer. At least that was my experience early last year.
The Bluebags are indeed still alive as are a number of other clubs. I got the impression that TDCS have set up themselves as the only authority and therefore the only ones allowed to have an opinion on this. Hopefully they've become a little more opened minded since last year.

btw, cheers for the links.

 

[Trojan Horse]

* http://www.rl1895.com/

* http://www.nswrl.com.au

* http://www.nzleague.co.nz/index.php

* http://www.playtheball.com/

* http://www.rugbyleague.net

All these sites have a good history page. I also visit them often.

 

[GBT]

One site that I visit regularly is devoted to the history of Australian Football.
http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/

 

[CanadianSteve]

Here's a page I found comparing the histories of Canadian and American football rules, and rules differences now.

http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/stampeders/compare.html

 

[terracesider]

I came across this, from Staffordshire University . It contains a range of material about late 19th century and early 20th century sport in the UK, including Rugby League, pre-1895 rugby, soccer and even boxing.

 

[mud n blood]

For the consumate AFL fan ..... check out www.footypedia.com

 

[terracesider]

Some articles from Sports Historian (which is now called History In Sport).

Tony Collins examines some of the myths surrounding 1895.

Philip Dine examines the history of French RL, based on his excellent book, French Rugby Football.

Phil Melling lays into the hypocrisy of the RU-dominated media.

There may be some other SH material of interest here but a lot of the links seem to be broken.

 

[terracesider]

Extracts from a book about RL internationals in Wales, 1907-1912.

http://www.ebbwvalerfc.co.uk/bookextract2.htm

 

[terracesider]

Some interseting links on here, from

Sporting Traditons.

Including Tony Collins From Bondi to Batley as a pdf file.

Tommy Raudonikis, Western Suburbs Rugby League Team and the Working Class of Campbelltown, New South Wales.

Women's RL in 1920s Sydney.