1934–35 Northern Rugby Football League season#Challenge Cup

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The 1934–35 Rugby Football League season was the 40th season of rugby league football. A single league Championship was contested by twenty eight teams. The Challenge Cup was contested for the 35th time and the first European Championship took place between England, France and Wales.

Season summary

Swinton won their fourth Championship beating Warrington 14–3 in the play-off final after ending the regular season as the league leaders.

The Challenge Cup winners were Castleford who defeated Huddersfield 11–8 in the final.

London Highfield returned north and changed their name to Liverpool Stanley.

{{cite web|url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=354 |title=1934-35 Season summary |access-date=2009-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923122245/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=354 |archive-date=2009-09-23 |url-status=live }}

Bradford Northern move into their new Odsal Stadium. The first match there on 1 September 1934 ended in a loss to Huddersfield.{{cite web|url=http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/content/History/3558/1919%20-%201939:%20Northern%20Union%20to%20Rugby%20League|title=Bradford Bulls History|access-date=2009-08-08}}

Salford won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. Salford beat Wigan 21–12 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 5–5 (replays: 2–2, 13–0) to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

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 ! style="width:20px;" abbr="Points for"\|PF ! style="width:20px;" abbr="Points against"\|PA !width=20 abbr="Points" \|Pts
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
align=center style="background:#FFD700;" \|1	Swinton	38	30	1	7	468	175	61
align=center style="background:" \|2	Warrington	38	28	3	7	445	253	59
align=center style="background:" \|3	Wigan	38	26	4	8	790	290	56
align=center style="background:" \|4	Salford	38	27	1	10	478	272	55
align=center style="background:" \|5	Leeds	38	26	2	10	531	321	54
align=center style="background:" \|6	Hull	38	25	0	13	562	430	50
align=center style="background:" \|7	Huddersfield	38	22	3	13	552	379	47
align=center style="background:" \|8	York	38	21	3	14	527	374	45
align=center style="background:" \|9	Castleford	38	20	3	15	512	355	43
align=center style="background:" \|10	St Helens Recs	38	21	1	16	431	404	43
align=center style="background:" \|11	Hunslet	38	21	0	17	549	461	42
align=center style="background:" \|12	Keighley	38	20	2	16	398	479	42
align=center style="background:" \|13	Broughton Rangers	38	20	1	17	451	357	41
align=center style="background:" \|14	Halifax	38	18	4	16	380	314	40
align=center style="background:" \|15	Liverpool Stanley	38	18	2	18	399	287	38
align=center style="background:" \|16	Wakefield Trinity	38	18	1	19	494	331	37
align=center style="background:" \|17	Widnes	38	18	0	20	395	339	36
align=center style="background:" \|18	Oldham	38	15	4	19	358	447	34
align=center style="background:" \|19	Rochdale Hornets	38	16	1	21	395	521	33
align=center style="background:" \|20	Barrow	38	15	1	22	396	460	31
align=center style="background:" \|21	St. Helens	38	14	3	21	278	377	31
align=center style="background:" \|22	Dewsbury	38	14	2	22	307	501	30
align=center style="background:" \|23	Hull Kingston Rovers	38	13	1	24	414	514	27
align=center style="background:" \|24	Leigh	38	13	0	25	311	589	26
align=center style="background:" \|25	Bradford Northern	38	11	1	26	321	580	23
align=center style="background:" \|26	Batley	38	9	1	28	306	603	19
align=center style="background:" \|27	Featherstone Rovers	38	6	0	32	293	804	12
align=center style="background:" \|28	Bramley	38	4	1	33	337	861	9

Championship play-offs

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| RD1=Semi-finals

| RD2=Championship final

| RD1-seed1=1

| RD1-team1=Swinton

| RD1-score1=10

| RD1-seed2=4

| RD1-team2=Salford

| RD1-score2=2

| RD1-seed3=2

| RD1-team3=Warrington

| RD1-score3=9

| RD1-seed4=3

| RD1-team4=Wigan

| RD1-score4=0

| RD2-team1=Swinton

| RD2-score1=14

| RD2-team2=Warrington

| RD2-score2=3

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Challenge Cup

Castleford beat Huddersfield 11–8 in the final at Wembley before a crowd of 39,000. This was Castleford’s first Challenge Cup Final win in their first Final appearance.

This was Huddersfield’s first defeat in six Final’s appearances.{{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 }}

European Championship

The tri-nation tournament was played between January and April 1935 as single round robin games between England, France and Wales. This was the first Rugby League European Championship, won by England on Points Average.{{cite book |title=Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996 |author1=Raymond Fletcher |author2=David Howes|year=1995|publisher=Headline Book Publishing |location=London |isbn=0-7472-7817-2|page=424}}

Match Details

Date	Venue	Home team	Score	Away team
class="wikitable"
1 Jan 1935	Bordeaux	France	18 - 11	Wales
28 Mar 1935	Paris	France	15 - 15	England
10 April 1935	Liverpool	England	24 - 11	Wales

References

Sources

[http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=354 1934-35 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com]
[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]

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Category:Northern Rugby Football League seasons