Centenary of Rugby League - Courier Mail CornerPrint Page 
The plaque commemorates the centenary of Rugby league and the historical significance of Courier Mail Corner.
A group of Brisbane rugby union footballers, who met daily at the old “Courier Mail corner” in Brisbane’s Queen Street to talk about football, decided that the time was right to establish the “Northern Rules” game in Queensland. Upon returning to work one afternoon in February 1908, one of the group Sinan ‘Siney’ Boland, borrowed five pence from a workmate, so he could mail letters to six football colleagues – E.L. ‘Buck’ Buchanan, ‘Mickey’ J. Dore, John ‘Jack’ A. O’Connor, George W. Watson, Alf Faulkner, and Jack A. Fihelly.
He invited them to attend a meeting to form a new football body, the Queensland Rugby Association (later to become the Queensland Amateur Rugby League on 8th March 1909), on 28th February 1908, at the Railway Hotel in Roma Street, Brisbane.
Location
| Address: | Queen & Edward Streets, Courier Mail Corner, Brisbane, 4000 |
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| State: | QLD |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -27.468193 Long: 153.026922 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | Culture |
| Sub-Theme: | Sport |
| Approx. Event Start Date: | 1908 |
| Approx. Event End Date: | 2008 |
Dedication
1908 2008
Centenary of Rugby League
This site is recognised as being of great significance in the history of Australian Rugby League
Courier Mail Corner
Informal meetings of Brisbane rugby union footballers at this site led to the establishment of the Queensland Rugby Association, the forerunner to the Queensland Rugby League on March 28, 1908.
Saluting the past - Celebrating the present - Inspiring the future
