1922 NSWRFL season
{{Short description|Rugby league competition}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox rugby league season
| year = 1922
| competition = New South Wales Rugby Football League
| image =
| imagesize = 125px
| caption =
| teams = 9
| premiers = 16x16px North Sydney
| count = 2nd
| minor premiers = 16x16px North Sydney
| mpcount = 2nd
| matches = 72
| points = 1841
| attendance =
| top point scorer = 16x16px Harold Horder (151)
| top try scorer = 16x16px Cecil Blinkhorn (20)
| wooden_spoon = St George
| wooden_spoon_count = 1st
| prevseason_link = 1921 NSWRFL season
| prevseason_year = 1921
| nextseason_link = 1923 NSWRFL season
| nextseason_year = 1923
}}
The 1922 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the fifteenth season of Sydney’s top-grade rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Nine teams from across the city contested the season which culminated in North Sydney’s victory over Glebe in the premiership final.[http://www.rl1908.com/clubcomps/Honours.htm Premiership Roll of Honour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514030740/http://rl1908.com/clubcomps/Honours.htm |date=2011-05-14 }} at rl1908.com
Season summary
After the clubs had played each other twice, Norths and Glebe were tied atop the points table. Instead of the points differential rule being implemented a Grand Final was held to determine the premier.
St George had another disappointing season, winning only two games against University and conceding 316 points averaging 19.75 per game.
=Teams=
- Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908, at Balmain Town Hall
- Eastern Suburbs, formed on January 24, 1908, at Paddington Town Hall
- Glebe, formed on January 9, 1908
- Newtown, formed on January 14, 1908
- North Sydney, formed on February 7, 1908
- South Sydney, formed on January 17, 1908, at Redfern Town Hall
- St George, formed on November 8, 1920, at Kogarah School of Arts
- Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908
- University, formed in 1919 at Sydney University
=Ladder=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" | |||||||||
| width=20 abbr="Position×" |
!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="Bye" |B !width=20 abbr="Points for" |PF !width=20 abbr="Points against" |PA !width=20 abbr="Points difference" |PD !width=20 abbr="Points" |Pts | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background: #ccffcc;"
|1 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px North Sydney
|16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 306 | 136 | +170 | 28 |
| style="background: #ccffcc;"
|2 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px Glebe
|16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 284 | 154 | +130 | 28 |
| 3 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px Eastern Suburbs
|16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 217 | 177 | +40 | 24 |
| 4 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px South Sydney
|15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 207 | 187 | +20 | 23 |
| 5 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px Balmain
|16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 168 | 145 | +23 | 22 |
| 6 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px Western Suburbs
|16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 164 | 201| | ||
| 37 | 16 | ||||||||
| 7 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px Newtown
|16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 169 | 200| | ||
| 31 | 15 | ||||||||
| 8 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px Sydney University
|15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 148 | 287| | ||
| 139 | 14 | ||||||||
| 9 | style="text-align:left;"|16x16px St George
|16 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 140 | 316| | ||
| 176 | 8 |
Final
| align="right" class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; margin-left:1em" | ||
| bgcolor="#FF0033"
! style="width:140px; border:3px solid maroon; background: maroon; color: white"|Glebe ! style="width:40px; text-align:center; background:#eee; color:black;"|Position ! style="width:140px; border:3px solid red; background: black; color: red"|North Sydney | ||
| align=center | FB | Norm Proctor |
| align=center | WG | Harold Horder |
| align=center | CE | Frank Rule |
| align=center | CE | Herman Peters |
| align=center | WG | Cec Blinkhorn |
| align=center | FE | Dallas Hodgins |
| align=center | HB | Duncan Thompson (c) |
| align=center
| Frank Burge (c) | PR | Reg Farnell |
| align=center | HK | Clarrie Ives |
| align=center | PR | Jim Pye |
| align=center | SR | Jack Baker |
| align=center | SR | George Green |
| align=center | LK | Wally Hancock |
| align=center
| | Coach | Chris McKivat |
As North Sydney and Glebe were tied on competition points a final was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 6 September, before a crowd of around 15,000. The match was officiated by Tom McMahon, the elder of the two pre-war referees of that name.
The game was not as even as the ladder at the end of regular season would have suggested. Norths completely got away to a 10-0 lead at half-time and went on to demolish Glebe 35-3, taking their second consecutive premiership crown. The legendary Harold Horder scored twenty individual points in the match.
This was North Sydney’s second premiership, their last before becoming the Bears in 1959, and last before being excluded from the competition after the 1999 NRL season. There have been ongoing efforts to resurrect the Bears
North Sydney 35 (Tries: Rule 2, Blinkhorn 2, Horder 2, Peters. Goals: Horder 7 )
defeated
Glebe 3 (Try: E Summers)
Image:Duncan Thompson.jpg|Duncan Thompson
Image:Harold_Horder_1919.jpg|Harold Horder
Image:Cec_Blinkhorn097.jpg_700.jpg|Cec Blinkhorn
Image:Frank Burge.jpg|Frank Burge
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References
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External links
- [http://afltables.com/rl/snotes.html Rugby League Tables - Notes] AFL Tables
- [http://afltables.com/rl/seas/1922.html Rugby League Tables - Season 1922] AFL Tables
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090208150918/http://rl1908.com/premiership.htm Premiership History and Statistics] RL1908
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724071951/http://www.rabbitohs.com.au/The-Club/Tradition/Results---1921-1930.html Results: 1921-30] at rabbitohs.com.au
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{{North Sydney squad - NSWRFL season 1922 premiers}}
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