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Queensland Premier Rugby
Queensland Premier Rugby is a semi professional club rugby union competition in Queensland, Australia. Nine clubs play in the competition, eight clubs are from Brisbane, and one club is from Gold Coast.The premiership has been contested in its present form since 1929. History Queensland Premier Rugby (QPR) evolved out of the Brisbane club competition that had been running since 1887. It was created by players, administrators, referees and coaches to expand and improve the top level of Queensland non-professional rugby. QPR provides Queensland rugby players a stepping stone for selection into the Queensland Reds and other teams in Super Rugby or other professional rugby competitions. Previous to 1920, the Hospitals Challenge Cup was established as a fund-raising exercise for the Brisbane General Hospital. After the devastation of World War I the competition was suspended until the Hospitals Cup was established. The Brisbane Club competition recommenced in 1929. The 1975 Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an Rugby ball, oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped Goal (sports)#Structure, goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people regardless of gender, age or size. In 2023, there were more than 10 million people playing worldwide, of whom 8.4 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Lucia, Queensland
St Lucia is a riverside Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The University of Queensland is the main attraction of St Lucia, with the university and its residential colleges covering a large proportion of the suburb. According to the , St Lucia had a population of 12,220 people. Geography St Lucia is located by road southwest of the General Post Office, Brisbane, Brisbane GPO. The suburb sits on a peninsula, bounded on the north, east and south by the Thalweg, median in a bend of the Brisbane River. The eastern third of the suburb is occupied by the main campus of the University of Queensland. The flatter area on the northern side is primarily medium to high density residential, including some high-rise apartments on the riverfront. The more hilly area in the centre and south is mainly low-density, family-occupied residential. The south-west is occupied by the St Lucia Golf Links. Ironside is a neighbourhood within the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunnybank Rugby
Sunnybank Rugby Union Club is an Australian rugby union club based in the Brisbane suburb of Sunnybank, Queensland, currently competing in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition. It was established in 1969 and has won three premierships since it entered. History Sunnybank Rugby Union Club was founded in 1969 as a junior rugby union club, in the southern Brisbane suburb of Sunnybank. As a junior club, it was founded on the principle that any boy, no matter how good or bad a rugby player he was, would get a game. And so it remains in the ranks of the junior players at Sunnybank, however the word "boy" has been changed to "child". In its first year, the club fielded an Under 8s team coached by Bill Horsley and an Under 11s side coached by Graeme Page. The club played their home games at Sunnybank State High School, until 1974, when the club moved to its present home ground of Biggs Field in the nearby Brisbane suburb of Macgregor. The Sunnybank High School colours of black, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toowong
Toowong ( ) is a riverside Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toowong had a population of 12,556 people with a median weekly household income of $1,927. Geography Toowong is situated between Mount Coot-tha, Queensland, Mount Coot-tha and the Brisbane River and is made up of rolling hills with little flat land. Since European settlement most of the land has been cleared for residential and commercial use with the exception of some park land and bushland near the Western Freeway, Brisbane, Western Freeway. At the centre of Toowong is a commercial precinct including Toowong Village, and several other commercial and office buildings. The western side of the suburb is predominantly residential with a mix of medium density dwellings and detached Queenslander (architecture), Queenslander houses, extending to the foothills of Mount Coot-tha. Toowong borders the Brisbane River. Along the riverside are a number of tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wests Brisbane Colours
Wests may refer to: *Wests (drink), a New Zealand beverage manufacturer *Wests Panthers, an Australian rugby league football club based in Brisbane Western Suburbs *Wests Tigers, an Australian rugby league team in the NRL, from Inner West and Western Sydney *Western Suburbs Magpies The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) is an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as the club is commonly ..., an Australian rugby league football club based in Sydney's Western Suburbs * Western Suburbs Rosellas, an Australian rugby league football club based in Newcastle's Western Suburbs See also * West (other) * Western (other) * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wests Rugby
Wests Rugby Union Club or Wests is an Australian rugby union club, based in Toowong, Queensland, Toowong, that competes in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition. The bulk of Wests' players are drawn from the western suburbs of Brisbane where local rivals GPS Rugby, GPS and University of Queensland Rugby Club, University, only a few suburbs away, also compete for players. Wests also draw from Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich and Springfield, Queensland, Springfield. Wests is one of the smaller Premier Rugby clubs in terms of player numbers, but it has achieved a share of success in the competition, winning premierships in 1977, 1985, 2006, and 2022. Their theme song is based on "Take Me Home, Country Roads". History Wests Rugby Union Club was founded in 1951 and only fielded one team, but went on to win the reserve grade competition in that first season. Player numbers increased in following years and the club was promoted to the first grade competition in 1955. The Bulldog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Park, Queensland
Norman Park is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Norman Park had a population of 6,842 people. Geography Norman Park is located by road east of the CBD. It borders East Brisbane, Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Morningside and Hawthorne, and is mostly residential. Toponymy Norman Park is likely named after an early estate in the area. The estate is thought to have derived its name in the 1890s from the nearby Norman Creek, and the contemporary Governor of Queensland Henry Wylie Norman. History Norman Park began taking in the first settlers in 1853. One of the early Deeds of Grant was in 1854 to Louis Hope of land totalling about 40 acres. Hope was a grazier and Ormiston Sugar Mill owner. Initially, development in Norman Park was slow and almost ceased after the 1893 Brisbane floods. Industries in Norman Park at the time included dairying, leather and brooms. Norman Park State School opened on 9 July 1900 with 52 students with a principal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easts Brisbane Colours
Easts may refer to: *Sydney Roosters, an Australian rugby league football team in the NRL, formerly known as "Eastern Suburbs" or "Easts" for short. *Eastern Suburbs Tigers, an Australian rugby league football club *Eastern Suburbs AFC, a New Zealand Association Football (soccer) club *Easts Tigers Rugby Union, a rugby union club in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia See also *Eastern Suburbs (other) *East (other) * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easts Tigers Rugby Union
Easts Rugby Union Club, known as Tigers. Easts draws players mainly from Altar boys and Southern suburbs of Brisbane, ranging from West End, Queensland, West End to Capalaba, Queensland, Capalaba, and south to Mt Gravatt, Queensland, Mt Gravatt. The club's home ground is Bottomley Park at Coorparoo, Queensland, Coorparoo. The junior club boasts over 1000 players ranging from Tiger Cubs, Under 6 to Under 17. The club was founded in 1947 and has won the Hospital Cup for the Queensland Premiership five times. History The history of Easts Rugby Union Club began in 1947 with the formation of a team of past students from Brisbane State High School. The club assumed the name Eastern Districts at the suggestion of the Queensland Rugby Union, QRU in 1949. Easts Rugby Union was incorporated as a not-for-profit association in the early 2010s. Easts played in lower grade competitions in Brisbane before being promoted to first grade in 1950. The club's first Premiership came in 1997, 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annerley, Queensland
Annerley is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Annerley is located by road south of the Brisbane CBD. In the , Annerley had a population of 11,891 people. Geography Much of the suburb is elevated, lying on a ridge that gives views of the city. For many years it was a somewhat rundown suburb, particularly close to main roads and with a lot of social housing, but with gentrification and the rise in the cost of housing, many of the original 'Queenslander (architecture), Queenslanders' have been restored to their former glory, giving the suburb an eclectic mix of residences for all socio-economic levels. The suburb is of medium population density with many apartment blocks, guest houses and fast-food outlets. The major road in the suburb is Ipswich Road, one of Brisbane's main southerly traffic arteries. Until 13 April 1969, the suburb was served by electric trams, which ran along Ipswich Road, Brisbane, Ipswich Road. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souths Magpies Colours
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Souths may refer to: * South Sydney Rabbitohs, a National Rugby League team * Souths Rugby, a Queensland Premier Rugby team * Souths Logan Magpies, a rugby league team based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia See also *South (other) South is a cardinal direction or compass point. South or The South may also refer to: Geography * Global South, the developing nations of the world * South (lunar crater) * South (Martian crater) * Southern England ("The South") * Southern Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souths Rugby
Souths Rugby Club or Souths is an Australian rugby union club based in Brisbane, and the South Brisbane, Queensland, Southern districts area that currently plays in the Queensland Premier Rugby club competition. The club was established in 1948, and since then has produced a host of Queensland Reds, Queensland and Australia national rugby union team, Wallaby rugby players. Queensland Premier Rugby results :''Queensland Premier Rugby'' Premiers, Hospital Cup Premierships (''Hospital Cup'') :''Queensland Premier Rugby'' Runners-up, (''Vince Nicholls Memorial Trophy'') Australian Club Championship results :''Australian Club Championship'' Premiers, Club Championship years :''Australian Club Championship'' Runners-up, Club Championship years Honours Queensland Premier Rugby – Queensland Premier Rugby#Grand Final results, Hospital Cup winners (since 1946), Premiers: (10) Queensland Premier Rugby#Grand Final results, Hospital Cup winners (since 1946), 1958, Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
