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Dewsbury Rams RLFC come the rugby league team based in the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. It compete in the LHF Healthplan National League two and play their home games at a '''Tetley's Bowl''', in Owl Lane. A Rams postfix wwhen adopted by Dewsbury RLFC inside 1996 as a portion of the sport's transition within to a summertime sport & despite the dislodge higher in the moo divisional format since so, the monicker has stuck.
History The club known as Dewsbury was formed around 1875 following a meeting at a Little Saddle Inn in 22 October 1875. A 1st fixture was played touching Sugar Field adjacent to the Crown Flatt ground. A team consisted of vii members of the committee something, which around in todays world's game would exist as inconceivable. the club presently realised it required a ground & the charted month secured a sub occupancy at Crown Flatt for the pricely total of £20.00! Inside 1881 saw a clubs number one profits in the Yorkshire Challenge Cup beating Huddersfield, Bradford and Halifax before an Alfred Newsome drop goal gave them triumph across Wakefield in the Final. Crown Flatts wwhen speedily gaining a reputation as one of a right-equipped ground inside Yorkshire. This was farther enhanced whenever a club purchased a notable "Noah's Ark" could have at the prices of £250.00 2 years late yet a club amalgamated into a Dewsbury & Savile & Dewsbury United Clerks Cricket club. A Yorkshire Senior Competition was formed was formed within 1892 and Dewsbury immediately became members. All a same, it failed to finish outside the bottom tercet due to fiscal problems. It so come as a large surprise that, at a illustrious meeting at a George Hotel, Dewsbury were a single members of a YSC does'nt to agree to form the Northern Union. It elected to remain in the YSC & marginally improved their position in the league to 10th. Next year nevertheless it were back at a bottom. Inside 1897-98 it was there is no better & midway through a year the club decided to abandon Rugby Football and withdrew from a league concentrating in soccer instead. a separatist movement presently developed & moves were presently afoot to encountered the club known now when Dewsbury Rams. In 21 April 1898 an historic meeting was held at the Black Bull gin mill to assume the possibility of forming a recently Northern Union club. A wonder was discussed at a few length & above £100.00 within donations was promised. Ironically it was local competition Batley who helped Dewsbury gain election to the Northern Union. It were fully supportive of Dewsbury's bid & plain seemed send on to rekindling a competition (& their pockets!) by using a plug hat matches & as well to thank a old Dewsbury Supporters world health organization got switched their trend lines to Mount Pleasant when you took them or even ternary proceedings seasons. A club so kicked of its hanker history in the 1898-99 year. Numbers of humans argued a validity & otherwise of a centennial celebrations held inside 1975, holding that the centennial should non own been held until 1998. All a same, busy people view it Crown Flatt was A centre of rugby football witharound Dewsbury from either 1875 until The Arena Fire in 1989.
Championship 1972/73 Dewsbury's sole championship title come in the 1972/73 year while it beat Leeds in the play-off final at Bradford's Odsal Stadium 22-13. Dewsbury, captained by Nigel Stephenson finished Eighth in the league however the title was decided across a series of play-offs where it as well defeated Oldham, Featherstone and Warrington on their way to glory. a 1972/73 year was a endure instance a League Title would become decided by a oppose until 1998 whilst the body was reintroduced.
The stadium fire In 13 September 1988, at about 4pm, trio youth deliberately placed fire to the historic wooden could have erected within 1914. A have was inside fantabulous affliction looking for a club experienced good spent £25,000 bringing it as much as a called upon safety standards. A tragedy is that a could have was non a exclusively tool wasted. A club too misplaced tons about gathered above a preceding 113 years, however it did prove that whatever a conditiin, whatever a challenge a club universally experienced committeemen, members supporters, players & staff & staff to meet people problems head on, & by planning sheer stiff operate & confessedly Yorkshire grit overcome all obstacles, & triumph in the prevent. On the 14 April 1991 Dewsbury RLFC played their last residence game at a old ground & a club misused its personal game venue & were forced to ground part by using neighbours Batley for several seasons. All the same, a fire enabled the club to build a newly state of the art arena in the Shaw Cross metropolitan area of Dewsbury (Owl Lane). On the 14 April 1991 Dewsbury RLFC played their last residence game at a old ground against Barrow and as operate commenced on a construction of the newly sports stadium the club ground shared sustaining neighbours Batley for many seasons. the recently arena was known as a Just released Crown Flatt sports stadium & a club played their foremost front yard game there in 6th September 1994 over again against Barrow, a match it won 82-6. A sports stadium since so was renamed to Ram Stadium and so around 2005 to the '''Tetley's Sports stadium'''.
Recent times the Rams stand enjoyed a high degree of profits inside recent years. It finished top of what was so referred to as a Northern Ford Premiership for 2 sequentially seasons inside 1999 & 2000, aswell as winning a Grand Final and Trans-Penine Cup in 2000 (endearingly termed by Rams fans when a Grand Slam. A NFP is the section beneath Super League, the sport's elect section, & despite a Rams' sustained profits it were denied entry due primarily to an deficient arena capacity at what was so referred to as Ram Stadium. A Rams proposed ground sharing using Sheffield Eagles and playing at their Don Valley Stadium while Dewsbury's stadium was improved, though this was turned down per RFL. A team's virtually all recent profits come at first of this year after it beat Batley Bulldogs in the Mill Mile Challenge at Mount Pleasant on Boxing Day last year
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