 In 1895, there was a major schism within rugby football in England in which numerous clubs from Northern England resigned from the RFU over the issue of reimbursing players for time lost from their workplaces.The split highlighted the social and class divisions in the sport in England, and led directly to the creation of the separate code of "rugby league".The existing sport thereafter took on the name "rugby union" to differentiate it from rugby league, but both versions of the sport are known simply as "rugby" throughout most of the world.