What Bradford Bulls have done for RL

Quote: MjM "What would Tony Collins know

Well I would hate to pour water on any discussion that might affect our Future via our past 150 year history.

Our first taste of Rugby in the city of Bradford was QUOTE:"In the winter of 1863 a young gentleman named Oates Ingham, who owned the Lingfield Dyeworks in Thornton Road, Bradford along with some friends and colleagues from Framham college, formed his own football club. The game was a cros between Rugby and Footbal as we know it today. The ball could be caught but if a player ran with it his opponent could repeatedly kick him about the shins until he dropped the ball..The first home game was on Horton Grange cricket ground near to where St Lukes stands today, there followed a nomadic movement culminated to a ground move to Girlington..In 1866 to give the club a better profile Oates Ingham officially named it the Bradford Rugby Club, this was 5 years before the English Rugby Union was formed, In 1874 they moved to a more permanent ground in Apperley Bridge. unquote: Extracts from Bradford Northern the History 1863-1989 by Nigel Williams the official club historian at that time.

So gents if you wish to continue to argue Bradford Rugby Club 1863 (officially named 1866) founder Oates Ingham and eventually to be known as Bradford Bulls, carry on! If we have a club in 2013 I for one will celebrate 150 years of Rugby in Yorkshire courtesy of the Bradford Club.. (if we still have a club to celebrate it with) So COYB and our thanks to Oates Ingham!