1912–13 Northern Rugby Football Union season
1912–13 Northern Rugby Football Union season | |
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League | Championship |
Teams | 26 |
1912–13 Season | |
Champions | ![]() |
League Leaders | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Top point-scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() |
Top try-scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() |
Resigned from the League | Ebbw Vale |
The 1912–13 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 18th season of rugby league football.
Season summary
[edit]Huddersfield ended the regular season as league leaders and then defeated Wigan 29-2 in the play-off final to win their second Championship in as many seasons.
The Challenge Cup Winners were Huddersfield who defeated Warrington 9-5.
Ebbw Vale dropped out.
Matches between Wakefield Trinity and Coventry, and Bramley and York were cancelled.[1]
Huddersfield's Australian stand-off Albert Rosenfeld broke his own record of 76 tries in a season which he set last year by scoring 80 this season.[2]
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Rochdale Hornets 21–5 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Batley beat Hull F.C. to win the Yorkshire County Cup.
Championship
[edit]Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Huddersfield | 32 | 28 | 0 | 4 | 732 | 217 | 56 | 87.5 |
2 | Wigan | 34 | 28 | 0 | 6 | 702 | 249 | 56 | 82.35 |
3 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 32 | 23 | 1 | 8 | 469 | 273 | 47 | 73.43 |
4 | Dewsbury | 34 | 23 | 1 | 10 | 534 | 230 | 47 | 69.11 |
5 | Hunslet | 34 | 22 | 2 | 10 | 468 | 252 | 46 | 67.66 |
6 | Broughton Rangers | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 303 | 173 | 38 | 63.33 |
7 | Salford | 30 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 245 | 182 | 38 | 63.33 |
8 | Wakefield Trinity | 33 | 20 | 2 | 11 | 348 | 350 | 42 | 63.33 |
9 | Batley | 32 | 18 | 1 | 13 | 379 | 218 | 37 | 57.81 |
10 | Leeds | 34 | 19 | 1 | 14 | 497 | 281 | 39 | 57.36 |
11 | Oldham | 32 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 341 | 273 | 36 | 56.24 |
12 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 327 | 277 | 36 | 52.94 |
13 | Hull | 34 | 16 | 3 | 15 | 318 | 328 | 35 | 51.47 |
14 | Widnes | 32 | 15 | 2 | 15 | 333 | 319 | 32 | 50 |
15 | Swinton | 32 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 248 | 256 | 31 | 48.44 |
16 | St. Helens | 32 | 14 | 1 | 17 | 370 | 331 | 29 | 45.31 |
17 | Bradford Northern | 34 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 253 | 336 | 30 | 44.12 |
18 | Warrington | 32 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 214 | 278 | 28 | 43.75 |
19 | Runcorn | 30 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 209 | 347 | 22 | 36.66 |
20 | York | 29 | 10 | 0 | 19 | 256 | 465 | 20 | 34.48 |
21 | Halifax | 32 | 10 | 2 | 20 | 269 | 367 | 22 | 34.38 |
22 | Barrow | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 235 | 351 | 20 | 33.33 |
23 | Leigh | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 153 | 321 | 16 | 26.67 |
24 | Keighley | 28 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 143 | 419 | 11 | 19.64 |
25 | Bramley | 31 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 172 | 686 | 9 | 14.52 |
26 | Coventry | 27 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 157 | 896 | 1 | 1.85 |
Championship play-off
[edit]Semi-finals | Championship final | ||||||||
1 | Huddersfield | 30 | |||||||
4 | Dewsbury | 3 | |||||||
Huddersfield | 29 | ||||||||
Wigan | 2 | ||||||||
2 | Wigan | 16 | |||||||
3 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 3 |
Huddersfield's Douglas Clark scored a hat-trick of tries in his side's victory in the Championship final.[3]
Challenge Cup
[edit]Huddersfield defeated Warrington 9-5 at Leeds in front of a crowd of 22,754.
This was Hudderfield’s first Challenge Cup win in their first Final appearance.[4]
Sources
[edit]- 1912-13 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
- The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website
References
[edit]- ^ "1912-13 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ Corbett, Claude (1933-09-20). "Warm Welcome: League tourists meet veterans". The Courier-Mail. Australia. p. 11. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
- ^ Ledger, John (2005-10-02). "Fartown legend Clark joins RL's Hall of Fame". Yorkshire Post. Europe Intelligence Wire. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
- ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.