Queensland Premier Rugby is currently the highest level competition in the state and equivalent to the Tooheys New Cup in NSW.
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The earliest known recorded regular Rugby football games in Brisbane commenced in 1876, when the Brisbane Football Club elected to change to Rugby, instead of 'Victorian Rules' (now known as Australian Rules) which it had played since its founding in 1866, to permit competition with the newly formed Rangers and Bonnet Rouge football clubs.
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Fred Lea, an Englishman educated at Allesley College near Rugby in Warwickshire, arrived in Brisbane in 1878, he was amazed to find that Victorian rules (now called Aussie Rules) was the only form of football being played.
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Queensland Rugby Union, the governing body for rugby union in Queensland, Australia, were known as the Northern Rugby Union until 1893.