Assertion: rugby | /r/CapableOf | split into two sports
Facets:
value: in 1895
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Rugby split into two sports in 1895, when twenty-one clubs split from the Rugby Football Union to form the Northern Rugby Football Union (later renamed the Rugby Football League in 1922) in the George Hotel, Huddersfield, over broken-time payments to players who took time off from work to play the sport, thus making rugby league the first code to turn professional and pay players.