These 22 clubs formed the Northern Rugby Union.

Oldham is one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895.

In July 1907 a new Merthyr Tydfil league team joined the Northern Rugby Union.

The stadium pre-dated the birth of the Northern Rugby Football Union (which would later become rugby league) by five years.

Northern Rugby Union is name that has been used by two sporting governing bodies:

The 1907-1908 St. Helens season was the club's thirteenth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 34th in their history.

Only a decade earlier, a breakaway version of rugby had begun in England, with the Northern Rugby Football Union being formed as a direct consequence.

Hull Kingston Rovers played their first season in the Northern Rugby Union this season.

Broken-time payments were the original player payment system of the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895.

They were formed as the Northern Rugby Union in 1895.