1928–29 Northern Rugby Football League season
League | Northern Rugby Football League | |||
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Number of teams | 28 | |||
Champions | File:Giantscolours.svg Huddersfield | |||
League Leaders | File:Giantscolours.svg Huddersfield | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | Jim Sullivan (Wigan) 226 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | File:Wigancolours.svg Lou Brown 44 File:Giantscolours.svg Ernie Mills (Huddersfield) 44 |
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The 1928–29 Rugby Football League season was the thirty fourth season of rugby league football.
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Season summary
Huddersfield won their fourth Championship when they beat Leeds 2-0 in the play-off final.
On 4 May 1929 the first Challenge Cup Final to be held at Wembley Stadium was played. 41,500 saw Wigan beat Dewsbury 13-2.[1]
Carlisle City fielded a team, but resigned after 10 matches and their record was expunged from the table. They won 1 and lost 9, scoring 59 and conceding 166. [2]
Swinton moved from their Chorley Road ground this season due to a dispute over rent. They built a new stadium at Station Road, Swinton using the stands from the old ground.[3]
Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Widnes 5–4 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Featherstone Rovers 5–0 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Huddersfield | 38 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 476 | 291 | 56 | 73.68 |
2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 40 | 27 | 3 | 10 | 436 | 239 | 57 | 71.25 |
3 | Leeds | 38 | 26 | 2 | 10 | 695 | 270 | 54 | 71.05 |
4 | Salford | 34 | 23 | 2 | 9 | 395 | 222 | 48 | 70.58 |
5 | Wigan | 38 | 26 | 1 | 11 | 636 | 308 | 53 | 69.73 |
6 | Swinton | 36 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 429 | 249 | 48 | 66.66 |
7 | Warrington | 36 | 22 | 2 | 12 | 568 | 295 | 46 | 63.88 |
8 | St Helens Recs | 38 | 22 | 1 | 15 | 545 | 374 | 45 | 59.21 |
9 | Oldham | 36 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 439 | 343 | 40 | 55.55 |
10 | St. Helens | 38 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 460 | 381 | 42 | 55.26 |
11 | Hunslet | 38 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 539 | 356 | 42 | 55.26 |
12 | Hull | 40 | 20 | 4 | 16 | 458 | 395 | 44 | 55.00 |
13 | Leigh | 34 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 285 | 279 | 37 | 54.41 |
14 | Wigan Highfield | 32 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 262 | 333 | 33 | 51.56 |
15 | Dewsbury | 36 | 17 | 2 | 17 | 380 | 387 | 36 | 50.00 |
16 | Wakefield Trinity | 40 | 17 | 4 | 19 | 400 | 461 | 38 | 47.50 |
17 | Halifax | 40 | 18 | 3 | 19 | 379 | 399 | 39 | 48.75 |
18 | Barrow | 32 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 396 | 387 | 28 | 43.75 |
19 | Batley | 38 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 278 | 442 | 30 | 39.47 |
20 | Broughton Rangers | 30 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 235 | 401 | 23 | 38.33 |
21 | Castleford | 34 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 268 | 369 | 26 | 38.23 |
22 | York | 34 | 12 | 0 | 22 | 259 | 409 | 24 | 35.29 |
23 | Bramley | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 241 | 437 | 24 | 35.29 |
24 | Widnes | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 222 | 439 | 24 | 35.29 |
25 | Featherstone Rovers | 38 | 10 | 4 | 24 | 277 | 451 | 24 | 31.57 |
26 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 10 | 0 | 24 | 235 | 434 | 20 | 29.41 |
27 | Keighley | 34 | 8 | 2 | 24 | 209 | 422 | 18 | 26.47 |
28 | Bradford Northern | 38 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 242 | 871 | 13 | 17.10 |
Championship Play-Off
Semi-finals | Championship Final | ||||||||
1 | Huddersfield | 13 | |||||||
4 | Salford | 5 | |||||||
Huddersfield | 2 | ||||||||
Leeds | 0 | ||||||||
2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 4 | |||||||
3 | Leeds | 7 | |||||||
Challenge Cup
Wigan beat Dewsbury 13-2 in the first final to be played at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 41,000.[4]
This was Wigan’s second Challenge Cup Final win in their fourth Cup Final appearance.[5][6]
Wigan 13 |
Dewsbury 2 |
Referee: Mr. R. Robinson (Bradford)
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