1931–32 Northern Rugby Football League season
League | Northern Rugby Football League | |||
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Number of teams | 28 | |||
Champions | St Helens | |||
League Leaders | Huddersfield | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | Jim Sullivan 249 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | "Ernie" Mills 50 | |||
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The 1931–32 Rugby Football League season was the 37th season of rugby league football in northern England.
Season summary
St.Helens won their first championship when they defeated Huddersfield 9-5 in the play-off final.
Huddersfield had finished the regular season as league leaders. [1]
The Challenge Cup Winners were Leeds who beat Swinton 11-8 in the final.
St.Helens won the Lancashire League, and Hunslet won the Yorkshire League. Salford beat Swinton 10–8 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Huddersfield beat Hunslet 4–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | |
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1 | Huddersfield | 38 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 636 | 368 | 61 |
2 | St Helens | 38 | 29 | 2 | 7 | 699 | 279 | 60 |
3 | Leeds | 38 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 603 | 307 | 55 |
4 | Hunslet | 38 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 672 | 359 | 55 |
5 | Salford | 38 | 26 | 2 | 10 | 551 | 211 | 54 |
6 | Swinton | 38 | 26 | 1 | 11 | 523 | 253 | 53 |
7 | Wigan | 38 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 559 | 361 | 46 |
8 | Warrington | 38 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 495 | 412 | 46 |
9 | York | 38 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 455 | 382 | 46 |
10 | Wakefield Trinity | 38 | 21 | 3 | 14 | 545 | 388 | 45 |
11 | Oldham | 38 | 20 | 2 | 16 | 461 | 437 | 42 |
12 | Rochdale Hornets | 38 | 19 | 2 | 17 | 458 | 458 | 40 |
13 | St Helens Recs | 38 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 523 | 523 | 37 |
14 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 38 | 18 | 0 | 20 | 409 | 413 | 36 |
15 | Dewsbury | 38 | 17 | 2 | 19 | 421 | 467 | 36 |
16 | Halifax | 38 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 432 | 379 | 35 |
17 | Batley | 38 | 16 | 1 | 21 | 358 | 433 | 33 |
18 | Broughton Rangers | 38 | 16 | 1 | 21 | 351 | 382 | 33 |
19 | Featherstone Rovers | 38 | 15 | 2 | 21 | 374 | 415 | 32 |
20 | Widnes | 38 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 363 | 458 | 32 |
21 | Hull | 38 | 14 | 3 | 21 | 415 | 461 | 31 |
22 | Castleford | 38 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 402 | 515 | 29 |
23 | Barrow | 38 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 368 | 560 | 29 |
24 | Leigh | 38 | 13 | 2 | 23 | 353 | 487 | 28 |
25 | Bramley | 38 | 12 | 1 | 25 | 333 | 751 | 25 |
26 | Keighley | 38 | 10 | 0 | 28 | 228 | 630 | 20 |
27 | Wigan Highfield | 38 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 350 | 707 | 14 |
28 | Bradford Northern | 38 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 313 | 854 | 11 |
Championship Play-Off
Semi-finals | Championship Final | ||||||||
1 | Huddersfield | 12 | |||||||
4 | Hunslet | 9 | |||||||
Huddersfield | 5 | ||||||||
St Helens | 9 | ||||||||
2 | St Helens | 9 | |||||||
3 | Leeds | 0 | |||||||
Challenge Cup
Leeds beat Swinton 11-8 in the Challenge Cup final played at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 9 April 1932 before a crowd of 29,000.
This was Leeds’ third Cup Final win in as many Cup Final appearances.[2]
Sources
- 1931-32 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
- The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website
References
- ↑ "1931-32 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
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