Bramley RLFC
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1879 |
| Exited | 2000 |
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| Competition | Rugby Football League Championship |
| Records | |
| BBC2 Floodlit Trophy | 1 (1973–74) |
For the current club founded in 2003, see Bramley Buffaloes.
Bramley RLFC was a rugby league club from the Bramley area of west Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, that folded following the 1999 season. The club is a famous name in rugby league, having existed prior to the formation of the Northern Union in 1895. The traditional nickname for the club was the Villagers.
Bramley were founded in 1879. They played at Whitegate Farm and Pollard Lane from their founding and moving to the Barley Mow ground in 1890.
The city of Leeds had an abundance of rugby football clubs and although members of the Yorkshire RFU (which was in turn a Constituent Body of the RFU), it was decided to form a ‘more local’ association. It was for this reason that the Leeds & District organization was formalised when a meeting took place at the Green Dragon Hotel, Leeds on 27 September 1888. The foundation clubs were Bramley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Kirkstall, Leeds Parish Church, Leeds St John’s (later to become Leeds), and Wortley.
Bramley’s England international Harry Bradshaw, was the first test case at Twickenham, over "broken time payments" in 1893, two years before the "great schism" of 1895 that resulted in the formation of the Northern Union which in time would be renamed as the Rugby League. Bramley were admitted to the new Northern Union on 2 June 1896. The rugby league was then split into two county leagues, Lancashire and Yorkshire.
James Lomas became rugby league's first £100 transfer from Bramley to Salford in 1901.
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