Rugby union in the Australian Capital Territory
[7] The first match of the 1899 British Lions tour was held at the Goulburn Showgrounds, and the Central Southern RFU put up a strong showing before the visitors prevailed 11–3.[27] No rugby union matches were played in Canberra for the five years prior to 1936,[28] in the period when the Royal Military College was forced to relocate to the Victoria Barracks, Sydney due to the economic downturn caused by the Great Depression.[29] After returning to Duntroon, the Military College played a re-formed Canberra Rugby Club in 1937, ten years after the teams had first met.[40] In 1975 the ACT team won promotion to top division of the Wallaby Trophy, Australia's provincial championship at the time.[44] After the ACT team had comprehensively beaten New South Wales in 1994,[45][34] an invitation was issued for a Canberra club to play in the NSWRU Premiership for the following season.The Brumbies play in the Super Rugby competition against other professional teams from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,[49] and now also Argentina and Japan.
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