Prior to Thursday 29 August 1895, Brighouse Rangers was a rugby union club International honours Change of Code When Brighouse Rangers converted from the rugby union code to the rugby league code on Thursday 29 August 1895, William Nicholl would have been 26 years of age. Consequently, he may have been both a rugby union and rugby league football player for Brighouse Rangers.
William Nicholl won caps for England while at Brighouse Rangers in the 1892 Home Nations Championship against Wales, and Scotland. In the early years of rugby football the goal was to score goals, and a try had zero value, but it provided the opportunity to try at goal, and convert the try to a goal with an unopposed kick at the goal posts. The point values of both the try and goal have varied over time, and in the early years football players could "score" a try, without scoring any points.
