Leeds Rhinos : Best Rugby League Club Of All Time
Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Club, Leeds Rhinos called
, is an English club rugby league based in Leeds (West Yorkshire). This is the current title holder of the Super League. Rhinos his nickname and logo were introduced in 1997 with the founding of the Super League. This is one of twenty-two clubs formed the Northern Rugby Football Union, who gave birth to rugby league in 1895.
The club operates from home at Headingley Stadium Headingley located in north-west of Leeds since 1890. Leeds is one of the most successful clubs in England with Wigan Warriors and St Helens RFC with two World Club Challenge titles (2005 and 2008), seven league titles in England (1961, 1969, 1972, 2004, 2007 , 2008 and 2009) and eleven wins in Challenge Cup (FA Cup).
In 1864, HI Jenkinson made an announcement in the local newspaper "Leeds Mercury" calls for rugby players to go to Woodhouse Moor a few days a week between 19 and 20 h. Some 500 members are then assembled and that several clubs were formed which resulted in the "Leeds St John's."
Formed in 1870, Leeds St John's was first known as "Old Blue and Ambers. They play their home games between 1870 and 1888 the Militia Barracks before moving to Cardigan Fields, near Headingley in Leeds. The members are from churches, but rather the recruitment is expanding rapidly. In 1887, the club met for the first time a Cup final, the Yorkshire Cup, rugby union competition, lost against Wakefield Trinity. The following year, the land of Cardigan are sold at auction and Lot 17a was purchased by a group of Leeds citizens whose intention is to place a sports club that dominates the town, this parcel is now known under the name of Headingley Stadium.
In 1890, Leeds St John's changed its name to a section of the Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Co Ltd and opens its new stadium September 20, 1890 Manningham FC cons. This stage becomes a hotbed of rugby since 1892, 27,654 spectators to see take place in Halifax RLFC Leeds contrast, a record for British rugby at the time.
In 1895, Leeds is one of the founding members of the Northern Union which created a schism in rugby, leaving the rugby union to create the rugby league. Their first match pits them against Leigh September 7, 1895, with the key to success for Leeds on the opening day of this new competition.
In the early twentieth century, the dominance of rugby is being undermined by the success encountered by Leeds City FC football club in the city, which then evolves into English second division and has the effect to drop the crowds in the stadium rugby .
In 1915, Leeds reached the Championship final for the first time but lost 35-2 against Huddersfield. In 1921, the transfer of Harold Buck Hunslet in Leeds is the first to reach the symbolic sum of 1,000 pounds. The years 1920, 1930 and 1940 are marked by many successes in the Challenge Cup winners opened in 1910 (then 1923, 1932, 1936, 1941 and 1942), Yorkshire Cup (1922, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1938) and Yorkshire League (1922, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1938).
After the Second World War, despite greater financial resources than many clubs in the league, the club just to look good. This period was interrupted in 1957 with a victory in the Challenge Cup followed by a Yorkshire Cup victory in 1959. This return to the foreground is marked by the introduction of coach Joe Warham which allows "Lioners" (nickname of the team) to capture their first Premiership title in 1961.
In the late 1960s under the leadership of a new coach, Roy Francis, Leeds won the Challenge Cup back in 1968 and the championship the following year. Francis was replaced by Rocky Turner, which allows the club to win a third championship title in 1972. The mid-1970s was marked by two Premiership titles in 1975 and 1979 and two Challenge Cup titles in 1977 and 1978.
The introduction of the Super League, marking the revival of rugby league, the club is then renamed to "Leeds Rhinos" for the occasion. The first team is then driven by Dean Dell, but the beginnings are difficult, due to financial problems, and flirting with relegation for the first year in 1996.
However, by 1998, the club returns to the top of the table and the first part of the Super League final against Wigan Warriors (lost 10-4 at Old Trafford in Manchester). Meanwhile, the club set a record on the transfer market by buying Iestyn Harris for 350 000 in 1997, becoming captain in his first year at the age of 21 years. In 1999, Leeds won their first Challenge Cup in 1978 against London Broncos at Wembley. The following year, they defend their title in the final but were defeated by Bradford Bulls at Murrayfield.
In 2001, Daryl Powell took over the team, the club occupies the places of honor in Super League since 1999. In 2003, Leeds find the Challenge Cup final but lost again against Bradford Bulls at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Tony Smith and Powell succeeds in his first season, it allows the club to finish first in the regular season of the Super League for the first time in its history, he confirmed his supremacy by winning the grand final against the Bulls (16-8 ), followed by a first title in the World Club Challenge against Canterbury Bulldogs (39-32) at Elland Road in Leeds.
After two years in places of honor (finalist of the Super League in 2005, 3rd in the regular season in 2006), the club won two titles in a row for Super League in 2007 and 2008 added a title at the World Club Challenge in 2008 despite the fact that St Helens RFC won the regular season.
by: Laura Steinfield
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