Girls Playing Rugby

1886 - Concerned at the growing dominance of the largely working-class northern clubs, the Rugby Football Union introduces strict amateur rules.
1888 - New Zealand Native football team tours Britain, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889.
1890 - Modern points scoring is uniformly accepted by the Home Nations for the 1890/91 season.
1892 - Charges of professionalism are laid against rugby football clubs in Bradford and Leeds, after they compensated players for missing work. This was despite the fact that the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) was allowing other players to be paid, such as the 1888 British Isles team that toured Australia, and the account of Harry Hamill of his payments to represent New South Wales (NSW) against England in 1904.