1914 NSWRFL season

New South Wales Rugby Football League

Duration

May 2 to August 22

Number of teams

Matches played

Points scored

1202 (total)
21.464 (per match)

Premiers

South Sydney^[1] (3rd title)

Minor Premiers

South Sydney (3rd title)

Top point-scorer(s)

Harold Horder (87)

Top try-scorer(s)

Harold Horder (19)

Second Grade

Number of teams

Premiers

South Sydney

Runners-up

Eastern Suburbs

Third Grade

Number of teams

Premiers

Eastern Suburbs

Runners-up

South Sydney Kinkora

< 1913	Seasons	1915 >

The 1914 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the seventh season of Sydney’s top-grade rugby league football club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season. The 1914 season’s gate receipts totalled £24,072, which was £7,038 more than the previous season's.^[2]

Season summary

Following the retirement of Dally Messenger at the end of the 1913 season, Eastern Suburbs’ stranglehold on the premiership came to an end. In their place, previous premiers South Sydney and Newtown took control of the competition. Newtown were in a good position to take out their second premiership midway through the season but a loss to middle-placed Balmain hurt their cause, although Newtown defeated South Sydney the following week. It turned out that the Balmain loss would make the difference, with South Sydney finishing just one point ahead of Newtown at the end of the season to claim their third premiership. No Finals were contested. Members of the South Sydney premiership winning side included Howard Hallett (Player of the Season), Roy Almond, O. Brown, Arthur Butler, Harry Butler, William Cann, Jim Davis, Wally Dymant, E. Hilliard, Owen McCarthy, Arthur McCabe and Harold Horder.^[3]

The season was punctuated by matches against the 1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, and was the last for future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee Chris McKivat who went on to have a prominent coaching career.

Teams

The teams remained unchanged from the previous season.

Annandale
Balmain, formed on 23 January 1908 at Balmain Town Hall
Eastern Suburbs, formed on 24 January 1908 at Paddington Town Hall
Glebe, formed on 9 January 1908
Newtown, formed on 14 January 1908
North Sydney, formed on 7 February 1908
South Sydney, formed on 17 January 1908 at Redfern Town Hall
Western Suburbs, formed on 4 February 1908


Annandale Ground: Wentworth Park Captain :William Lindsay	Balmain Ground: Birchgrove Oval Coach: Bill Kelly Captain: Charles Fraser	Eastern Suburbs 7th season Ground: Sydney Sports Ground Captain: Dan Frawley	Glebe Ground: Wentworth Park Captain-Coach: Chris McKivat Co-captain: Alby Burge
Newtown Ground: Erskineville Oval Captain: Paddy McCue	North Sydney Ground: North Sydney Oval Captain: Albert Broomham	South Sydney Ground: Sydney Cricket Ground Captain: Arthur Butler	Western Suburbs Ground: Pratten Park Captain: Tedda Courtney

Ladder

The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1914 premiership across Sydney.

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	South Sydney	14	11	1	2	166	79	+87	23
2	Newtown	14	11	0	3	185	111	+74	22
3	Eastern Suburbs	14	8	0	6	164	122	+42	16
4	Balmain	14	6	4	4	132	111	+21	16
5	Glebe	14	7	1	6	187	140	+47	15
6	North Sydney	14	5	1	8	158	165	-7	11
7	Western Suburbs	14	3	0	11	104	231	-127	6
8	Annandale	14	1	1	12	106	243	-137	3

References

↑ Premiership Roll of Honour at rl1908.com
↑ "Rugby League's Gate Receipts". Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 64. New Zealand. 5 March 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
↑ Haddan, Stephen (1991). History of the NSW Rugby League Finals. Australia. p. 26. Retrieved 13 July 2014.

Sources

Rugby League Tables - Notes AFL Tables
Rugby League Tables - Season 1914 AFL Tables
Premiership History and Statistics RL1908
1914 - South Sydney Edge Out Newtown RL1908
Results: 1911-20 at rabbitohs.com.au

Collis, Ian; Whiticker, Alan (2007). 100 Years of Rugby League. 1. Chatswood, NSW: New Holland. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-74110-463-9.

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