Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112–122 metres (122 to 133 yards) long with H shaped posts at both ends. It is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby …

The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England, and until 1995 for the whole British Isles.The name Rugby Football League previously also referred to the main league competition run by the organisation. This has since been supplanted by Super League, the Championship and League 1.. Based at Red Hall in Leeds, it …

American football is played on a rectangular field 120 yards (110 m) long by 53 1⁄3 yards (48.8 m) wide.Near each end of the field is a goal line, which are 100 yards (91 m) apart.A scoring area called an end zone extends 10 yards (9.1 m) beyond each goal line. Yard lines cross the field every 5 yards (4.6 m), two rows of hash marks run parallel to the side lines near the middle of …

From 1905 the states of Queensland and New South Wales were beginning to create Rugby League competitions, using the rules created in Northern England as a break-away game from Rugby Union.. The first season of rugby league in Australia commenced in New South Wales and was held in 1908 and was run by the New South Wales Rugby Football …

The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from England's established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition. Similar schisms occurred later in Australia and New Zealand in 1907. Gradually the rugby …

In rugby league football, the Laws of the Game are the rules governing how the sport is played. The Laws are the responsibility of the Rugby League International Federation, and cover the play, officiating, equipment and procedures of the game.. The Laws have undergone significant changes since pioneers of the sport broke away from the Rugby football establishment in 1895.

Competitions. The ARL controls 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.. History. Rugby league started in Australia in the period 1907–08. The Australian Rugby Football League …

Adam Walker (20 February 1991 – 4 October 2022) was a Scotland international rugby league prop.At club level he played for the Huddersfield Giants, Hull Kingston Rovers, St Helens, Wakefield Trinity and the Salford Red Devils in the Super League, and on loan from Huddersfield at the Barrow Raiders and the Swinton Lions in the Championship.

John Bateman (born 30 September 1993) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as second-row and loose forward for the Wigan Warriors in the Betfred Super League, and England and Great Britain at international level.. He previously played for the Bradford Bulls and Wigan in the Super League and for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL.Earlier in his career he …

The 2013 Rugby League World Cup was the fourteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and took place in England, Wales, France and Ireland. between 26 October and 30 November 2013. . It was the main event of the year's Festival of World Cups. Fourteen teams contested the tournament: Australia, England, New Zealand, Samoa, Wales, Fiji, France, …