1908–09 Northern Rugby Football Union season

League

Northern Rugby League

1908–09 Season

Champions

Wigan

League Leaders

Wigan

Top point-scorer(s)

James Lomas 272

Top try-scorer(s)

Joe Miller 44

Frank Williams 44

< 1907–09	Seasons	1909–10 >

The 1908–09 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 14th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Wigan won their first Championship this season beating Oldham 7-3 in the play-off final. They had ended the regular season as the league leaders too. It was the first time that a team from outside the top two in the league had got to the Championship final.

Wakefield Trinity beat Hull 17-0 to win their first Challenge Cup in their first final.

Aberdare, Barry, Mid-Rhondda and Treherbert joined, taking the competition to 31 teams.

Bradford disbanded and became Bradford Northern.^[1] They also moved for the second time in as many seasons to their new ground at Birch Lane.^[2]

Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Halifax won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Oldham 10–9 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Halifax beat Hunslet 9–5 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Australia toured England this season. On 17 October 1908, they drew 9-9 at Salford.^[3]

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Wigan	32	28	0	4	706	207	56	87.50
2	Halifax	34	28	1	5	526	174	57	83.82
3	Oldham	32	26	0	6	488	176	52	81.25
4	Batley	32	23	3	6	412	176	49	76.56
5	Huddersfield	34	21	3	10	504	292	45	66.17
6	Wakefield Trinity	31	20	1	10	471	318	41	66.12
7	Salford	32	20	1	11	455	309	41	64.06
8	Merthyr Tydfil	18	11	1	6	184	156	23	63.88
9	Broughton Rangers	32	19	1	12	420	330	39	60.93
10	Warrington	32	18	2	12	473	266	38	59.37
11	Runcorn	28	16	1	11	271	191	33	58.92
12	Hunslet	32	18	1	13	361	299	37	57.81
13	Hull	34	19	1	14	487	366	39	57.35
14	Ebbw Vale	24	12	1	11	249	269	25	52.08
15	Leeds	32	15	1	16	398	355	31	48.43
16	Hull Kingston Rovers	32	14	1	17	429	423	29	45.31
17	St Helens	28	11	3	14	312	421	25	44.64
18	York	32	13	1	18	394	510	27	42.18
19	Dewsbury	30	12	1	17	350	324	25	41.66
20	Keighley	30	12	1	17	338	355	25	41.66
21	Leigh	28	11	0	17	214	308	22	39.28
22	Swinton	32	11	1	20	258	440	23	35.93
23	Bradford Northern	32	11	0	21	324	451	22	34.37
24	Mid-Rhondda	18	5	1	12	111	214	11	30.55
25	Rochdale Hornets	30	8	2	20	195	384	18	30.00
26	Barrow	32	9	1	22	245	507	19	29.69
27	Widnes	28	6	3	19	197	359	15	26.78
28	Treherbert	18	4	1	13	81	212	9	25.00
29	Barry	18	3	0	15	76	445	6	16.66
30	Bramley	26	3	0	23	162	582	6	11.53
31	Aberdare	17	1	0	16	134	406	2	5.88

Champions	Play-offs

Play-Offs

Semi-finals			Championship Final


1	Wigan	18

4	Batley	2
			Wigan	7

			Oldham	3
2	Halifax	3-2

3	Oldham	3-8

Final

The Championship final was played on a rainy afternoon of 1 May 1909 before a crowd of around 12,000 at The Willows in Salford.

Wigan:
1 Jim Sharrock, 2 Jim Leytham, 3 Bert Jenkins, 4 Lance Todd, 5 Joe Miller, 6 Johnny Thomas, 7 Ned Jones
8 Jack Barton, 9 Walter Cheetham, 10 Howell de Francis, 11 Dick Ramsdale, 12 Dick Silcock, 13 Tom Whittaker

Oldham:
1 Alf Wood, 2 George Tyson, 3 Sid Deane, 4 Tom Llewellyn, 5 George Smith, 6 Billy Dixon, 7 Arthur Anlezark
8 Bert Avery, 9 Joe Ferguson, 10 Bill Jardine, 11 Joe Owens, 12 Arthur Smith, 13 Harry Topham

In the third minute, Wigan took the lead through a penalty goal by Jim Leytham. Oldham however scored the first try when Bill Jardine crossed in the fifteenth minute. Wigan's Dick Ramsdale took his side back into the lead with a try in the thirtieth minute. Leytham converted to give Wigan a 7-3 lead at half time. No further points were scored during the match.^[4]

Challenge Cup

Wakefield Trinity beat Hull 17-0 in the final to win their first Cup in their first final. This was Hull’s second successive defeat in a Challenge Cup final, having failed to score a point in either final.^[5]^[6]

Wakefield Trinity Tries: Thomas "Tommy" 'Trapper' Newbould, Ezra Sidwell, Arthur Kenealy "Nealy" Crosland, Ernest W. Bennett, William 'Billie ' G. Simpson

Wakefield Trinity Goals: James "Jimmy" D. Metcalfe

Half-time: 6-0

Attendance: 23,587 (at Headingley Stadium, Leeds)

Teams:

Wakefield Trinity: James "Jimmy" D. Metcalfe, Ernest W. Bennett, William "Billy" Lynch, Ezra Sidwell, William 'Billie ' G. Simpson, Harry Slater, Thomas "Tommy" 'Trapper' Newbould, Arthur Kenealy "Nealy" Crosland, James Auton, Joseph Taylor, John "Jack" Walton, Herbert Kershaw, Harry 'Dickie' Beaumont

Hull FC: Harry Taylor, J. Dechan, G. Connell, G. T. Cottrell, (E. or Ned) Rogers, Harry Wallace, Billie Anderson, Tom Herridge, William Holder, Frank Boylen, F. Britton, H. Havelock, W. J. Carroll

Sources

References

↑ "1908-09 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "Bradford Bulls History". Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
↑ "Salford first game". Salford City Reds Official Web Site, History page. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
↑ "1908-1909 Championship Final". wigan.rlfans.com. Cherryandwhite.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "A complete history of Hull FC's Challenge Cup finals". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

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