Girls Playing Rugby

1980 - Australia establishes Rugby League’s State of Origin format, where Queensland and New South Wales born players face each other. From 1982 onwards, it is played as a three match series and is recognised as the fiercest, toughest rugby in the world.
1981 - The ‘Sin Bin’ is introduced into Rugby League, in Australia.
1981 - Springbok Rugby Union tour of New Zealand.
1981 - South Africa is banned by the International Rugby Board from international Rugby Union competition until such time as apartheid ended.