Rugby League
Events
- Hunslet becomes the first team to achieve the celebrated "All Four Cups" feat
England
- Championship – Hunslet
- Challenge Cup final – Hunslet 14–0 Hull at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield
- Lancashire League Championship – Oldham
- Yorkshire League Championship – Hunslet
- Lancashire Cup – Oldham 16–9 Broughton Rangers
- Yorkshire Cup – Hunslet 17–0 Halifax
Australia
- Professional rugby league begins in Australia with the formation of the New South Wales Rugby League
- South Sydney wins the first Australian championship, defeating Eastern Suburbs 14–12 in the final
- First Australian national rugby league team embarks on the inaugural 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain
Read more about this topic: 1908 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word league:
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)