John McNamara, Research Officer, Port of Yamba Historical Society, Clarence Valley Independent The first rugby union club to be established in Australia was Sydney University’s in 1863. A decade after the first club was formed, a body called the Southern Rugby Union was formed as a result of a meeting at the Oxford Hotel in Sydney, a Sydney competition was established, which was administered from the England Rugby headquarters at Twickenham. The…
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