Over the summer of 2006, they added a number of promising forwards especially Jordan Crane, the Number 8, who arrived from Leeds Tykes with a good reputation following the U21 World Cup in France.

Leeds Carnegie ( formerly Leeds Tykes ) are an English rugby union club, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, currently playing in the RFU Championship.

From 1998 through to the end of the 2006 – 07 season, the club used the name Leeds Tykes, but on 14 May 2007 it was announced that Leeds Metropolitan University would buy a 51 % stake in the club and change the name to fit with the university's sport department, Carnegie College.

Leeds RUFC would also take on a new name and when they entered the 1998 Allied Dunbar Premiership Two competition, that of the Leeds Tykes.

Since 1996 the Tykes have played at Leeds Rhinos ' Headingley stadium and Phil Davies became their player-coach.

They were renamed Leeds Tykes in 1998 when Leeds Rugby Ltd was formed, merging the Rhinos and Tykes under one umbrella.

Again in 2001, Tom Palmer became the first ever Leeds Tykes player to be capped for England when he appeared as a replacement against the United States.

The members of the Leeds Tykes team for their first ever game in the Premiership on 2 September 2001 against Bath were Shelley, Holt, Wring, C. Murphy, Palmer, Mather, Ponton, Fea ' unati, Benton, Bachop, Emmerson, Woof, Mayer, Scarbrough, Benson.

So it was Leeds Tykes that won the 34th Powergen Cup to make club history.

Formerly the head coach of rugby league club Leeds Rhinos, he was promoted from his previous title as the Tykes ' offensive coach.

Leeds Tykes are already planning ahead for next season and have confirmed that they have signed Earth Titans captain Joe Bedford and fly half Alberto Di Bernardo and Tongan hooker Viliami Ma ' asl from Cornish Pirates.

Since 1 July 2007 the Leeds Tykes have been known as Leeds Carnegie after having signed what they described as a " ground-breaking " deal with Leeds Metropolitan University, which took a majority 51 % stake in the club.

Newcastle won in 2004, and in 2005 the Leeds Tykes defeated Bath to win it for the first time.

* 2005 Leeds Tykes 20 – 12 against Bath

* In May of the same year, the University purchased a 51 % stake in the Leeds Tykes rugby union club.

Simon Lee embarked on a controversial programme of partnerships with external bodies during his time as vice-chancellor, which came to be dubbed as " rubbing shoulders " after the university took a majority stake in the Leeds Tykes rugby club, renaming it Leeds Carnegie.

The entrance from Dyer Street to the National Express concourse of the Leeds City bus station | City Bus and Coach Station in Leeds, West Yorkshire

To the aggravation of Leeds supporters, Gray was forced to take a back step when Brian Kidd was promoted from Academy Manager to Head Coach and was given all coaching responsibilities.

In July 2007 Leeds Rhinos announced that Brian McClennan would be joining the club as Head Coach on a two year contract from 1 December 2007.

As well as Coach Dean Richards being short-listed for the O2 Director of Rugby of the Season as well as Tom Guest being nominated for MBNA Try of the Season for his try against Leeds Carnegie on Sunday 13 April 2008.

In 2003 Leeds appointed Tony Smith as Head Coach for the 2004 season, despite being top of the table at the time.

Kidd moved to Leeds United in May 2000 as youth coach but was promoted to act as Head Coach in March 2001 under David O ' Leary and then Terry Venables.

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* Phil Leeds as emergency room ghost

* Phil Leeds ( 1916 – 98 ), American film actor

In January 2008, keyboard and cornet player Phil Sumner was admitted to hospital in Leeds after being knocked unconscious when he attempted a stage dive from a 12-foot PA system.

* Phil Swainston ( from Leeds Carnegie )

* When he came on as a substitute against Italy at Leeds in 2002, he earned his 51st cap, breaking the record for a right back held previously by Phil Neal

Phil Davies, then coach of Leeds Tykes, replaced Jenkins at the Scarlets.

* TCM Remembers 1998: composer John Addison, Gene Autry, Binnie Barnes, Lloyd Bridges, Dane Clark, art director George Davis, John Derek, special effects visual Linwood G. Dunn, Alice Faye, Norman Fell, editor Gene Fowler, Jr., Douglas Fowley, Patricia Hayes, Valerie Hobson, Josephine Hutchinson, director Alan J. Pakula, Leonid Kinskey, director Akira Kurosawa, cinematographer Charles Lang, Phil Leeds, Jean Marais, E. G. Marshall, Roddy McDowall, Jeanette Nolan, Lucille Norman, Maidie Norman, Dick O ' Neill, Maureen O ' Sullivan, composer Gene Page, choreographer Jerome Robbins, Gene Raymond, Roy Rogers, Esther Rolle, Frank Sinatra, J. T. Walsh, Vincent Winter, O.

Liverpool's much-decorated Phil Neal was the first-choice right-back as the late 1970s became the 1980s, while Leeds United captain Trevor Cherry was also regularly called up.

The club also had a rich stand-up history, with comedians like Phil Leeds performing there.

At the age of twelve, in Leeds, Phil became friendly with Fred Fox, whose father was the scenic artist at the recently opened Grand Theatre.

Soon, Phil May had begun to earn his living in a solicitor's office ; before he was fifteen he had acted as time-keeper at a foundry, had tried to become a jockey and had been on the stage at Scarborough and Leeds.

After Revie's departure, successor Ron Greenwood seemed to prefer Liverpool's Phil Neal at right back and Leeds United's Trevor Cherry at left back, with Mills as reserve for both.

In 2002 he became assistant coach to Phil Davies at Leeds Tykes and later that year was also appointed as head coach of the England U21s.

In 2005 the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) in collaboration with Dan Vickers and Phil Rees of the University of Leeds, released a free small scale social area classification of the UK < sup ></ sup > based on 2001 UK small area census data.

Also appearing in this series were Christopher Hewett, Phil Leeds, Alan Cauldwell and, in her TV series debut, Nana Visitor ( here billed under her birth name, Nana Tucker ).

Brown was also in the Blades side that famously knocked out Leeds United out of the League Cup with late goals from Phil Jagielka and Peter Ndlovu.

Brown and his team mate Phil Jagielka were both linked with moves to Leeds United after knocking them out of the cup competitions, however Sheffield denied that they had received any bids from Leeds.

Spotted by Phil Davies in his first game for the University of Leeds, he joined Leeds Tykes in 1997 and played for the U19's during his first year at college.