Wyong Roos

The Wyong Rugby League Football Club are an Australian rugby league club based on the Central Coast of New South Wales. The club competes in the New South Wales Cup and the Central Coast Division Rugby League. The club's colours are green and gold, the home ground of the club is the Morry Breen Oval in Kanwal, New South Wales.

History

1910–1919

A Wyong District Rugby League Competition was formed by F.G (Gersh) Baker and S.A.McKinnon in 1910. Many of the players had previously played rugby union. Unofficial matches were played until 1915 when the first organised challenge matches commenced between Wyong, Erina, Gosford and Ourimbah.

1919–1947

In 1919 the Wyong and District Rugby League was formed which included teams from Jilliby, Kincumber, Nords Wharf and Yarramalong. Wyong were unable to consistently field a team during the war years with some players choosing to play with Ourimbah. Races (dogs and horses) were held every Saturday at Wyong or Tuggerah and interest declined, forcing Wyong to withdraw from the 1925 competition and not re-forming until 1929 when they won their first officially recorded premiership.

Roos

Coordinates: 53°45′13″N 0°02′37″W / 53.753578°N 0.043694°W / 53.753578; -0.043694

Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 12 miles (19 km) east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (6 km) north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road.

Geography

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos, Hilston and Tunstall, together with the hamlet of Owstwick. According to the 2011 UK census, Roos parish had a population of 1,168, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,113. The parish covers an area of 2,333.222 hectares (5,765.52 acres).

The Prime Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos.

The parish church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building.

In popular culture

The meeting of Beren and Luthien in JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, was written after the author and his wife visited a wood near to Roos. The Hemlocks in the wood were said to have inspired his verse.

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Roos (disambiguation)

Roos may refer to:

Surname

See: Roos (surname)

Given name

Roos can be a Dutch female given name, meaning "Rose" or being short for "Rosemarijn" (Rosemary)

Places

Roos, a village in East Yorkshire, England

Other uses

See also

Roos (surname)

Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German and Swiss German “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic origin (e.g. someone lived in a house named “the rose”) In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands. In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair (Old English “Rouse”). The name is also relatively common in Sweden (5,902 people in 2010) and Finland (1219 in 2012)

People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include: