Ben Howard (rugby union) Ben Howard (rugby union) Ben Howard (born 7 February 1993 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a British rugby union football player, playing for Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership. He is a full back who has represented England at Under-20 level. Howard joined Worcester aged 18, and made his Premiership debut against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road in September 2012. He scored two tries on his European debut against Gernika RT in the Amlin Challenge Cup. Howard was in the England Under-20 side that won the Six Nations Championship in 2013, and went on to defeat Wales in the
Rugby union in Queensland union players leaving for Sydney to play rugby league and get paid in the process, something which the amateur code of rugby union could not offer. In 1908, the QRU banned its players from going to Sydney to play rugby league, which resulted in disgruntled players forming the Queensland Rugby League. Of particular note was that at this time, league put down strong roots in the bush and in working class communities and these areas are still the heartland of the modern game of rugby league. In 1913 nine Christian Brothers' College Football Club (Brothers) players represented Queensland in the