1923–24 Northern Rugby Football League season
1923–24 NRFL season | |
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League | Championship |
Teams | 27 |
Champions | Batley (1st title) |
League Leaders | Wigan |
Runners-up | Wigan |
Top point-scorer(s) | Jim Sullivan ( Wigan) (319) |
Top try-scorer(s) | Johnny Ring ( Wigan) (49) |
The 1923–24 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 29th season of rugby league football.
Season summary
Batley won their first, and to date only, Championship when they defeated Wigan 13–7 in the play-off Championship Final.
Wigan had ended the regular season as the league leaders and won the Challenge Cup by defeating Oldham 21–4 in the final.[1]
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Batley won the Yorkshire League. St Helens Recs beat Swinton 17–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull F.C. beat Huddersfield 10–4 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Wigan | 38 | 31 | 0 | 7 | 824 | 228 | 62 | 81.57 |
2 | Batley | 36 | 24 | 3 | 9 | 432 | 287 | 51 | 70.83 |
3 | Oldham | 36 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 579 | 296 | 48 | 66.66 |
4 | Leigh | 34 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 407 | 250 | 43 | 63.23 |
5 | Huddersfield | 36 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 481 | 352 | 43 | 59.72 |
6 | St Helens Recs | 32 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 363 | 255 | 38 | 59.37 |
7 | Swinton | 34 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 346 | 312 | 40 | 58.82 |
8 | Rochdale Hornets | 36 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 318 | 330 | 42 | 58.33 |
9 | York | 36 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 323 | 258 | 41 | 56.94 |
10 | Hunslet | 36 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 328 | 332 | 41 | 56.94 |
11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 36 | 19 | 2 | 15 | 408 | 377 | 40 | 55.55 |
12 | Leeds | 38 | 20 | 0 | 18 | 448 | 350 | 40 | 52.63 |
13 | Halifax | 38 | 20 | 0 | 18 | 360 | 357 | 40 | 52.63 |
14 | Widnes | 34 | 16 | 3 | 15 | 275 | 245 | 35 | 51.47 |
15 | Broughton Rangers | 34 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 286 | 251 | 34 | 50 |
16 | St. Helens | 34 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 332 | 522 | 32 | 47.05 |
17 | Hull | 38 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 439 | 447 | 35 | 46.05 |
18 | Dewsbury | 36 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 279 | 289 | 33 | 45.83 |
19 | Wakefield Trinity | 36 | 15 | 2 | 19 | 313 | 358 | 32 | 44.44 |
20 | Warrington | 36 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 341 | 395 | 32 | 44.44 |
21 | Barrow | 36 | 15 | 1 | 20 | 366 | 372 | 31 | 43.05 |
22 | Keighley | 36 | 14 | 1 | 21 | 291 | 427 | 29 | 40.27 |
23 | Featherstone Rovers | 36 | 12 | 3 | 21 | 348 | 545 | 27 | 37.5 |
24 | Wigan Highfield | 36 | 12 | 0 | 24 | 324 | 428 | 24 | 33.33 |
25 | Salford | 34 | 8 | 1 | 25 | 175 | 466 | 17 | 25 |
26 | Bradford Northern | 34 | 8 | 0 | 26 | 190 | 524 | 16 | 23.52 |
27 | Bramley | 34 | 7 | 0 | 27 | 228 | 528 | 14 | 20.58 |
Championship playoff
Semi-finals | Championship final | ||||||||
1 | Wigan | 27 | |||||||
4 | Leigh | 0 | |||||||
Wigan | 7 | ||||||||
Batley | 13 | ||||||||
2 | Batley | 38 | |||||||
3 | Oldham | 0 |
- v
- t
- e
- 1 Joe Robinson
- 2 Bryn Williams
- 3 George Davidge
- 4 Harry Rees
- 5 Hugh Murray
- 6 Willie Scott
- 7 Ike Fowler (vc)
- 8 George Ramsbottom
- 9 Alonza Brook
- 10 Jack Leeming
- 11 George Douglas
- 12 Jack W. Smith
- 13 Fred Carter
- 14 Albert Carter
- 15 Frank Gallagher (c)
- 16 Joe Gledhill
- 17 Alan Mortimer
- 18 Evan Rees
- Coach: Albert Armitage (Trainer-Coach), and George Thwaites (Assistant-Trainer)
This is the same squad that also won the Yorkshire League during the 1923–24 season
Challenge Cup
Wigan beat Oldham 21–4 in the final played at Rochdale before a crowd of 41,381.
This was Wigan's first Challenge Cup Final Win in their second appearance in a Final. [2]
References
Sources
- 1923-24 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com Archived 2009-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
- The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website