1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season

The 1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the tenth season of rugby league football.

1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season
LeagueFirst Division
1904–05 Season
Champions Oldham
Top point-scorer(s) James Lomas 146
Top try-scorer(s)James Dechan (Bradford) 31
Second Division
Champions Dewsbury

Season summary

Oldham won their first Division One Championship whilst Warrington won the Challenge Cup.

Holbeck and South Shields dropped out, reducing the competition to 15 teams.[1]

Birkenhead resigned after 4 games, the results of which were struck out of the table. They lost all four games, conceding 93 points and scoring none.

On 4 March 1905, a record 11 tries were scored by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers in the Northern Union Challenge Cup. In this same match the record for most points in a match, 53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) was recorded.[2]

There was no county league competition this season.

At the end of the season, all division one and division two clubs. except Lancaster, were elected to the new single top division, the NRFU Championship.

Notable events

  • At the start of this season, the Northern Union changed its rules to allow clubs to have full-time players paid by the clubs, thus making it fully professional.[3]

Division One

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1Oldham34251829115851
2Bradford34232929415648
3Broughton Rangers342221029517546
4Leeds342041023215044
5Warrington342021222015042
6Salford341921327620440
7Wigan341811523019537
8Hull341541522421434
9Hunslet341611724021633
10Halifax341521720415532
11Leigh341431716520931
12Hull Kingston Rovers341501920022030
13Swinton341321915519628
14Wakefield Trinity341321915421128
15Batley341231916022827
16Widnes341312012828027
17St. Helens34912416835119
18Runcorn34712613330115

Division two

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1Dewsbury2622222474846
2Barrow2622042866844
3York2618352057639
4Keighley2615292599432
5Huddersfield261421023114330
6Rochdale Hornets261141115414526
7Millom261201413917324
8Pontefract261011515617521
9Castleford26931410419921
10Normanton26911610522819
11Brighouse Rangers26811711116917
12Lancaster26811710625717
13Morecambe2672178827216
14Bramley2652199523912

Challenge Cup

Warrington beat Hull Kingston Rovers 6-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 19,638 to win the Cup at their third attempt in a final.[2]

References

  1. "1904-05 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-05. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
  2. Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
  3. Michael Higgins; Clarissa Smith, John Storey (2010). The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-521-68346-3. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
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