Brighouse Rangers

Brighouse Rangers was a (semi) professional rugby league club based in Brighouse, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Calder and has a population of approx 35,000.

The club was involved in the momentous meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield in 1895, and after the schism, the club became founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League) and played 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 season 1915–16, 1916–17, 1917–18 and the 1918–19 (Jan) wartime league (but not in the shortened 1919 (Feb – May) Victory League.

Brighouse Rangers Football Club were founded in the 1870s, and joined the RFU in 1879.