1919–20 Northern Rugby Football Union season#Challenge Cup
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{{Infobox rugby football league season
| title = 1919–20 Northern Rugby Football Union season
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| season = 1919–20 Season
| season_champs = {{leagueicon|hull|16}} Hull F.C. (1st title)
| season_champ_name = Champions
| league_leaders = {{leagueicon|huddersfield|16}} Huddersfield
| league_leaders_name = League Leaders
| second_place ={{leagueicon|huddersfield|16}} Huddersfield
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| top_scorer = {{flagicon|WAL}} Ben Gronow ({{leagueicon|huddersfield|16}} Huddersfield) (332)
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| top try scorer = {{flagicon|ENG}} Stan Moorhouse ({{leagueicon|huddersfield|16}} Huddersfield) (39)
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| prevseason_link = 1918–19 Northern Rugby Football Union season
| prevseason_year = 1918–19
| nextseason_link = 1920–21 Northern Rugby Football Union season
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The 1919–20 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 25th season of rugby league football.
Season summary
A full championship competition returned after suspension during the First World War as well as a full Challenge Cup campaign.
Hull F.C. recorded their first Championship when they defeated Huddersfield 3-2 in the play-off final.
Huddersfield had ended the regular season as league leaders and won the Challenge Cup defeating Wigan 21-10.{{cite web|url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=339 |title=1914-15 Season summary |access-date=2009-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826212214/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=339 |archive-date=2009-08-26 |url-status=live }}
Widnes won the Lancashire League and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat Rochdale Hornets 7–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Huddersfield beat Leeds 24–5 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.
Championship
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!width=175 |Team !width=20 abbr="Played" |Pld !width=20 abbr="Won" |W !width=20 abbr="Drawn" |D !width=20 abbr="Lost" |L !width=20 abbr="Points for" |PF !width=20 abbr="Points against" |PA !width=20 abbr="Points" |Pts !width=20 abbr=”Win Percentage” |Pct | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|1 | Huddersfield | 34 | 29 | 0 | 5 | 759 | 215 | 58 | 85.29 |
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|2 | Hull | 34 | 25 | 1 | 8 | 587 | 276 | 51 | 75 |
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|3 | Leeds | 32 | 23 | 0 | 9 | 445 | 208 | 46 | 71.87 |
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|4 | Widnes | 30 | 21 | 1 | 8 | 250 | 115 | 43 | 71.67 |
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|5 | Barrow | 32 | 22 | 1 | 9 | 477 | 202 | 45 | 70.31 |
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|6 | Halifax | 34 | 23 | 1 | 10 | 390 | 168 | 47 | 69.12 |
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|7 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 363 | 203 | 45 | 66.18 |
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|8 | Oldham | 34 | 21 | 1 | 12 | 333 | 226 | 43 | 63.23 |
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|9 | Dewsbury | 32 | 18 | 2 | 12 | 299 | 262 | 38 | 59.37 |
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|10 | Warrington | 30 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 236 | 198 | 32 | 53.33 |
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|11 | St Helens Recs | 28 | 13 | 3 | 12 | 329 | 196 | 29 | 51.79 |
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|12 | Batley | 32 | 15 | 2 | 15 | 223 | 319 | 32 | 50 |
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|13 | Wigan | 32 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 281 | 266 | 31 | 48.44 |
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|14 | Leigh | 28 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 175 | 228 | 26 | 46.43 |
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|15 | Salford | 32 | 14 | 1 | 17 | 202 | 269 | 29 | 45.31 |
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|16 | St. Helens | 30 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 278 | 285 | 26 | 43.33 |
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|17 | Swinton | 30 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 201 | 274 | 25 | 41.67 |
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|18 | Wakefield Trinity | 32 | 11 | 4 | 17 | 229 | 494 | 26 | 40.62 |
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|19 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 32 | 10 | 2 | 20 | 250 | 325 | 22 | 34.37 |
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|20 | Bramley | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 163 | 372 | 20 | 33.33 |
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|21 | York | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 213 | 422 | 17 | 28.33 |
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|22 | Hunslet | 34 | 9 | 0 | 25 | 167 | 384 | 18 | 26.47 |
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|23 | Broughton Rangers | 32 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 184 | 460 | 16 | 25 |
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|24 | Bradford Northern | 32 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 177 | 479 | 15 | 23.44 |
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|25 | Keighley | 32 | 6 | 0 | 26 | 106 | 471 | 12 | 18.75 |
Championship play-off
{{4TeamBracket
| RD1=Semi-finals
| RD2=Championship final
| RD1-seed1=1
| RD1-team1=Huddesfield
| RD1-score1=7
| RD1-seed2=4
| RD1-team2=Widnes
| RD1-score2=5
| RD1-seed3=2
| RD1-team3=Hull
| RD1-score3=11
| RD1-seed4=3
| RD1-team4=Leeds
| RD1-score4=0
| RD2-team1=Huddersfield
| RD2-score1=2
| RD2-team2=Hull
| RD2-score2=3
}}
Challenge Cup
{{main|1919-20 Challenge Cup}}
Huddersfield defeated Wigan 21-10 in the Challenge Cup Final played at Headingley, Leeds in front of a crowd of 14,000.
This was Huddersfield’s third Challenge Cup Final win in their third final appearance. They retained the trophy, having won the Cup in the last season before the suspension due to the First World War.{{cite web|url=http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65 |title=RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour |access-date=2009-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403144113/http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65 |archive-date=2009-04-03 |url-status=dead }}
Sources
- [http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=339 1919-20 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826212214/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=339 |date=2009-08-26 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090403144113/http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65 The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website]
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Rugby Football League seasons}}
{{Hull Football Club}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rugby Football League Season, 1919-20}}
Category:1919 in English rugby league