Brighouse Rangers RFC
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Brighouse Rangers was a rugby league club in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England.
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Full name | Brighouse Rangers Rugby Football Club |
Exited | 1906; 118 years ago (1906) |
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Competition | Yorkshire Men’s League -premier division |
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The club was involved in the meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield in 1895, and after the schism became founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League), playing for eleven seasons from 1895–96 to 1905–06.
After a break, a new club, also called Brighouse Rangers, appeared in 1915 and played in the Emergency War Leagues in 1915–16, 1916–17, 1917–18 and 1918–19.