Sydney University rugby league team
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Sydney Uni Rugby League Club |
| Founded | 1920 |
| Exited | 1937 |
| Former details | |
| Competition | New South Wales Rugby Football League |
| February 1920 | 9th of 9 |
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| Records | |
| Premierships | Nil |
| Runners-up | 1 - 1926 |
| Minor premiership | Nil |
| Wooden spoons | 12 - 1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, |
Sydney Uni Rugby League Club is a rugby league team currently playing in the NSW Tertiary Student Rugby League competition. There used to be a team representing the University of Sydney who played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership from 1920–1937, then in the NSWRL Second Division and Metropolitan League competitions from 1963 to 1976.
The movement at the University of Sydney to be involved in the new game of rugby league began in 1919 with a number of players (including seven University Blues from the 1918 season) viewing a game of the new code and deciding to switch codes. As put by Herbert Vere Evatt (a final year law student and later a politician, jurist and President of the UN General Assembly) at the time the reasons were:
From the very beginning, the Students (or 'Varsity' as they were also known) struggled to gain acceptance by the University Sports Association who displayed great prejudice toward those who had left the rugby union side to play rugby league.
Indeed, players who participated in rugby league matches were threatened with disqualification from ever playing rugby union at Oxford University or University of Cambridge and the Sports Association forbid the club from training on the University Oval (forcing Varsity to train with Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Sports Ground). While public pressure forced the Association to relent, the club never once played a game at the University Oval during its involvement in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership.
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