Brisbane rugby league team

The Bulimba Cup was a competition contested by the Brisbane, Ipswich and Toowoomba representative rugby league sides which started in 1925.

During the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, a Brisbane side was again formed to play against France, losing to the visitors in the last two minutes by a single point.

Brisbane's side for the 1984 National Panasonic Cup, captained by Wally Lewis, defeated the Eastern Suburbs Roosters 12-11 in the final at the Leichhardt Oval in Sydney.

[3] When the Brisbane Broncos assembled the team to play their first ever game in 1988, most of the inaugural 17 players (including Lewis, Scott, Miles, Kilroy, and Dowling) that defeated the defending 1987 Sydney Rugby League premiers Manly-Warringah Sea-Eagles 44-10 at Lang Park, had previously played in the Brisbane Rugby League's team.

Since 1988 a Queensland Residents side has occasionally been selected and drew heavily on the Brisbane Rugby League premiership until that competition ended in 1997.