100 Years Of Rugby League (EDM2725)

100 Years Of Rugby League

EDM number 2725 in 2005-06, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 11/10/2006.

That this House notes that 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of the first year of the Northern Rugby Football League, the inaugural competition which was established following the meeting on 29th August 1895 at the George Hotel in Huddersfield where 21 clubs voted unanimously to break away from the Rugby Football Union and allow broken-time payments, forming the Northern Rugby Football Union; pays tribute to the initial 22 clubs who took part in the ambitious inaugural league competition where each team had to play every other on a home and away basis, a format adopted by many other sports in later years; acknowledges the changes made to the game, in particular abolishing line-outs, reducing teams to 13-a-side and introducing the play-the-ball, which helped to improve the attractiveness of the spectacle and therefore attract paying crowds; looks forward to rugby league enjoying another 100 years of success; expresses its good wishes to the Great Britain squad, who are due to take part in the Tri-Nations competition this autumn in Australia; and hopes that they will mark the centenary of rugby league by winning the Tri-Nations tournament.

This motion has been signed by a total of 57 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Lindsay Hoyle	11/10/2006	Chorley	Labour	Proposed
Mary Creagh	11/10/2006	Wakefield	Labour	Seconded
Neil Turner	11/10/2006	Wigan	Labour	Seconded
Bob Laxton	11/10/2006	Derby North	Labour	Seconded
Jeff Ennis	11/10/2006	Barnsley East and Mexborough	Labour	Seconded
David Crausby	11/10/2006	Bolton North East	Labour	Seconded
Ian Stewart	11/10/2006	Eccles	Labour	Signed
Jon Trickett	11/10/2006	Hemsworth	Labour	Signed
John Grogan	11/10/2006	Selby	Labour	Signed
Hywel Francis	11/10/2006	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	11/10/2006	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Claire Curtis-Thomas	11/10/2006	Crosby	Labour	Signed
Colin Burgon	11/10/2006	Elmet	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	11/10/2006	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Geraldine Smith	11/10/2006	Morecambe and Lunesdale	Labour	Signed
Tony Lloyd	11/10/2006	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	11/10/2006	Heywood and Middleton	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	12/10/2006	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Jim Devine	12/10/2006	Livingston	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	12/10/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Peter Bottomley	12/10/2006	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
David Borrow	12/10/2006	South Ribble	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	12/10/2006	Gower	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	12/10/2006	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Joan Humble	12/10/2006	Blackpool North and Fleetwood	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	12/10/2006	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Neil Gerrard	16/10/2006	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Wayne David	16/10/2006	Caerphilly	Labour	Signed
Paul Keetch	16/10/2006	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Edward Davey	16/10/2006	Kingston and Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Spink	16/10/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
John Pugh	16/10/2006	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	16/10/2006	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Andrew Rosindell	17/10/2006	Romford	Conservative	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	17/10/2006	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	17/10/2006	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	17/10/2006	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Anthony D Wright	17/10/2006	Great Yarmouth	Labour	Signed
Philip Davies	17/10/2006	Shipley	Conservative	Signed
Rudi Vis	18/10/2006	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	18/10/2006	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Hugh Bayley	19/10/2006	City of York	Labour	Signed
Tim Farron	19/10/2006	Westmorland and Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Chris McCafferty	19/10/2006	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	19/10/2006	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	20/10/2006	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Stephen Hepburn	23/10/2006	Jarrow	Labour	Signed
Derek Wyatt	23/10/2006	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Labour	Signed
John Leech	23/10/2006	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ian Lucas	24/10/2006	Wrexham	Labour	Signed
Roger Godsiff	24/10/2006	Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Adam Price	26/10/2006	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Michael Clapham	26/10/2006	Barnsley West and Penistone	Labour	Signed
John Battle	26/10/2006	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	31/10/2006	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	06/11/2006	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Eric Martlew	06/11/2006	Carlisle	Labour	Signed

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