1924–25 Northern Rugby Football League season

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1924–25 Northern Rugby Football League season
League
Jim Sullivan ( Wigan) (282)
Top try-scorer(s)Wales Johnny Ring ( Wigan) (54)

The 1924–25 Rugby Football League season was the 30th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Hull Kingston Rovers won their second Championship by defeating Swinton in the play-off final.

Swinton had ended the regular season as league leaders.

Oldham defeated Hull Kingston Rovers to win the Challenge Cup.[1]

Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Batley 9–8 to win the Yorkshire County Cup
.

Championship

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts Pct
1 Swinton 36 30 0 6 499 224 60 83.33
2 Hull Kingston Rovers 34 25 3 6 492 171 53 77.94
3 Wigan 36 27 1 8 784 258 55 76.38
4 St. Helens Recs 38 26 3 9 564 267 55 72.36
5 Oldham 34 21 1 12 533 248 43 68.23
6 Leeds 36 21 3 12 341 278 45 62.5
7 Huddersfield 36 21 1 14 458 351 43 59.72
8 Dewsbury 36 20 2 14 310 269 42 58.33
9 Warrington 36 19 2 15 427 386 40 55.55
10 St. Helens 34 17 3 14 325 381 37 54.41
11 Batley 36 19 1 16 441 350 39 54.16
12 Rochdale Hornets 36 18 2 16 348 331 38 52.77
13 Hunslet 36 19 0 17 411 369 38 52.77
14 Wakefield Trinity 36 17 1 18 337 316 35 48.61
15 Keighley 36 17 1 18 305 420 35 48.51
16 Barrow 34 16 1 17 288 336 33 48.52
17 Featherstone Rovers 34 15 0 19 322 364 30 44.11
15 Hull 36 14 3 19 368 422 31 43.05
19 Salford 34 13 3 18 160 399 29 42.64
20
Leigh
 34 13 1 20 328 433 27 39.7
21
Halifax
 38 14 2 22 317 431 30 39.47
22 Broughton Rangers 34 12 1 21 244 429 25 36.76
23
York
 36 12 1 23 272 351 25 34.72
24 Wigan Highfield 32 10 1 21 224 432 21 32.81
25 Widnes 34 10 1 23 257 462 21 30.83
26 Bradford Northern 38 8 4 26 285 584 20 26.31
27
Bramley
 36 2 2 32 174 572 6 8.33

Championship play-off

Semi-finals Championship final
      
1 Swinton 20
4 St Helens Recreation 2
Swinton 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 9
2 Hull Kingston Rovers 13
3 Wigan 4

Challenge Cup

Main article:
1924-25 Challenge Cup

Oldham beat Hull Kingston Rovers 16-3 in the final played at Leeds before a crowd of 28,335.

This was Oldham’s fifth appearance in the Final and their second win. Their previous Cup Final win was back in 1899.[2]

During this season's Cup competition, Wigan's Jim Sullivan set a Challenge Cup record for the most goals kicked in a match, when he was successful 22 times against the amateur team, Flimby and Fothergill.[3]

References

  1. ^ "1924-25 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  2. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. ^ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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