1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season
League | Northern Rugby Football Union | |||
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Number of teams | 26 | |||
Champions | Wigan | |||
League Leaders | Oldham | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | Reg Farrar 213 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | Reg Farrar 49 | |||
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The 1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 27th season of rugby league football.
Season summary
Featherstone Rovers joined the competition this season. [1]
In November, winger Harold Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 transfer when he moved from Hunslet to Leeds.[2]
Oldham had ended the regular season as the league leaders.
Wigan won their second ever Championship this season when they defeated Oldham 13-2 in the play-off final.
The 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain also took place during the season, with many of the clubs playing games against the visiting Australasian team.
Oldham won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Warrington beat Oldham 7–5 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Dewsbury 11–3 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Oldham | 36 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 521 | 201 | 59 | 81.94 |
2 | Wigan | 32 | 22 | 1 | 9 | 446 | 159 | 45 | 70.31 |
3 | Hull | 38 | 25 | 0 | 13 | 538 | 326 | 50 | 65.79 |
4 | Huddersfield | 36 | 23 | 1 | 12 | 608 | 271 | 47 | 65.28 |
5 | Leeds | 38 | 24 | 1 | 13 | 583 | 289 | 49 | 64.47 |
6 | Batley | 38 | 23 | 2 | 13 | 381 | 299 | 48 | 63.16 |
7 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 20 | 2 | 12 | 352 | 225 | 42 | 61.76 |
8 | Halifax | 36 | 21 | 2 | 13 | 418 | 218 | 44 | 61.11 |
9 | Leigh | 34 | 19 | 3 | 12 | 295 | 228 | 41 | 60.29 |
10 | York | 36 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 311 | 231 | 43 | 59.72 |
11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 38 | 21 | 0 | 17 | 420 | 356 | 42 | 55.26 |
12 | St Helens Recs | 36 | 19 | 1 | 16 | 417 | 315 | 39 | 54.17 |
13 | Dewsbury | 36 | 19 | 1 | 16 | 290 | 339 | 39 | 54.17 |
14 | Barrow | 34 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 311 | 321 | 36 | 52.94 |
15 | Warrington | 36 | 16 | 1 | 19 | 285 | 418 | 33 | 45.83 |
16 | Widnes | 32 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 227 | 240 | 29 | 45.31 |
17 | Wakefield Trinity | 36 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 335 | 313 | 32 | 44.44 |
18 | Broughton Rangers | 32 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 284 | 247 | 28 | 43.75 |
19 | Hunslet | 36 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 215 | 400 | 31 | 43.05 |
20 | Swinton | 34 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 248 | 312 | 28 | 41.18 |
21 | Bramley | 34 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 251 | 496 | 28 | 41.18 |
22 | St Helens | 34 | 12 | 1 | 21 | 255 | 399 | 25 | 36.76 |
23 | Salford | 34 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 164 | 312 | 22 | 32.35 |
24 | Featherstone Rovers | 36 | 10 | 2 | 24 | 280 | 463 | 22 | 30.55 |
25 | Keighley | 36 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 134 | 581 | 9 | 12.5 |
26 | Bradford Northern | 34 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 134 | 744 | 5 | 7.35 |
Championship Play-Off
Semi-finals | Championship Final | ||||||||
1 | Oldham | 13 | |||||||
4 | Huddersfield | 5 | |||||||
Oldham | 2 | ||||||||
Wigan | 13 | ||||||||
2 | Wigan | 27 | |||||||
3 | Hull | 8 | |||||||
Challenge Cup
Rochdale Hornets defeated Hull 10-9 in the final played at Leeds before a crowd of 32,596. This was Rochdale's first Challenge Cup Final win in their first, and as of 2013 their only, Final appearance. [3][4]
Rochdale Hornets: 10
Rochdale Hornets Tries: Tommy Fitton 2
Rochdale Hornets Goals: Dicky Paddon 2
Hull FC: 9
Hull FC Tries: Jimmy Kennedy, Billy Batten, Bob Taylor
Half-time: 6-7
Attendance: 34,827 (at Headingley Stadium, Leeds)
Rochdale Hornets: Frank Prescott, Tommy Fitton, Fred Wild, Teddy McLoughlin, Joe Corsi, J. Eaton, J. Keynon, Thomas Harris, Jack Bennett, Dickie Paddon, Tommy Woods, Dai Edwards, Louis Corsi
Hull FC: J. Holdsworth, Billy Stone, Jimmy Kennedy, Billy Batten, Emlyn Gwynne, Eddie Caswell, W. J. Charles, Jack Beasty, George Oliver, J. E. Wyburn, Edgar Morgan, Bob Taylor, H. Garratt
Sources
- 1921-22 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
- The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website
References
- ↑ "1921-22 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Baker, Andrew (1995-08-20). "100 years of rugby league: From the great divide to the Super era". Independent, The. independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
- ↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ↑ "A complete history of Hull FC's Challenge Cup finals". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.