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The Roses Match refers to any game of cricket played between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club. Yorkshire's emblem is the white rose, while Lancashire's is the red rose. The associations go back to the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century. These matches have a long and proud history and are traditionally the ...
Cricket: Roses Match – between Lancashire CCC and Yorkshire CCC. [7] Football: Roses Derby – between Leeds United and Manchester United. [8] Also describes games between other traditional East Lancashire and West Yorkshire clubs; Bradford City vs Burnley, Halifax Town vs Rochdale, and Huddersfield Town vs Oldham Athletic being well known ...
Red Rose of Lancaster White Rose of York. The rivalry is considered to be a sporting manifestation of the established rivalry between the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which can loosely be traced back to the Wars of the Roses, [3] a series of civil wars fought between the rival Plantagenet royal houses of York and Lancaster for the throne of England during the 15th century.
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The Battle of the Roses also known as The Rugby Match or The Roses Match is an 1895 portrait by artist William Barnes Wollen. It is based on the rugby union match between the representative sides of Yorkshire and Lancashire played at Fallowfield, Manchester on 24 November 1894. It depicts the Yorkshire team in the all-white strip attacking ...
The Roses Tournament is an annual varsity sports competition between Lancaster University and the University of York in England, often described as the largest inter-university sports tournament in Europe. [1] [2] It is organised by their respective Students' Unions, LUSU and YUSU.
Roses FC were the last of the six charter members of the league to unveil their branding, and did so at a high-profile event held at Dalhousie station in Old Montreal on 8 October 2024, [17] [18] attended by around 550 people including Isabelle Charest, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, members of the Montreal Victoire and Canada men's national soccer team, and various club and league executives and ...
The England women's national rugby union team, commonly known as the Red Roses, represents England in women's international rugby union. They compete in the annual Women's Six Nations Championship with France , Ireland , Italy , Scotland and Wales .