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The movement at the University of Sydney to be involved in the new game of rugby league began in 1919 with a number of players ( including seven University Blues from the 1918 season ) viewing a game of the new code and deciding to switch codes.

As put by Herbert Vere Evatt ( a final year law student and later a famous politician, jurist and President of the UN General Assembly ) at the time the reasons were: