1920–21 Northern Rugby Football Union season
League | Northern Rugby Football Union | |||
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Number of teams | 25 | |||
Champions | Hull | |||
League Leaders | Hull Kingston Rovers | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | Jimmy Kennedy 264 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | Billy Stone 41 | |||
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The 1920–21 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the twenty sixth season of rugby league football.
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Season summary
Hull won their second ever Championship in as many seasons when they defeated local rivals Hull Kingston Rovers 16-14 in the Championship play-off.
Hull Kingston Rovers had ended the regular season as league leaders.
Leigh won the Challenge Cup beating Halifax 13-0 in the final. [1]
Jim Kennedy of Hull set a club record of 14 goals scored in a match against Rochdale Hornets on 7 April 1921. On the 29 January 1921 he had also scored a club record 36 points (4 tries and 12 goals) in a single match against Keighley.[2]
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Halifax won the Yorkshire League. Broughton Rangers beat Leigh 6–3 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull Kingston Rovers beat Hull 2–0 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 32 | 24 | 1 | 7 | 432 | 233 | 49 | 76.56 |
2 | Hull | 36 | 27 | 0 | 9 | 722 | 267 | 54 | 75 |
3 | Halifax | 38 | 27 | 0 | 11 | 492 | 184 | 54 | 71.05 |
4 | Wigan | 34 | 23 | 1 | 10 | 435 | 238 | 47 | 69.12 |
5 | Swinton | 34 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 289 | 250 | 45 | 66.18 |
6 | Dewsbury | 34 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 349 | 233 | 43 | 63.23 |
7 | York | 30 | 18 | 1 | 11 | 280 | 225 | 37 | 61.67 |
8 | Leeds | 34 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 380 | 209 | 41 | 60.29 |
9 | Broughton Rangers | 30 | 16 | 3 | 11 | 283 | 164 | 35 | 58.33 |
10 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 311 | 301 | 38 | 55.88 |
11 | Widnes | 30 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 231 | 252 | 32 | 53.33 |
12 | Barrow | 32 | 17 | 0 | 15 | 328 | 254 | 34 | 53.12 |
13 | Warrington | 34 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 295 | 289 | 36 | 52.94 |
14 | Huddersfield | 36 | 18 | 2 | 16 | 376 | 283 | 38 | 52.78 |
15 | St Helens Recs | 30 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 299 | 201 | 31 | 51.67 |
16 | Batley | 32 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 312 | 225 | 33 | 51.56 |
17 | St Helens | 30 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 254 | 304 | 28 | 46.67 |
18 | Oldham | 34 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 267 | 254 | 29 | 42.65 |
19 | Wakefield Trinity | 34 | 14 | 1 | 19 | 253 | 426 | 29 | 42.65 |
20 | Leigh | 32 | 10 | 3 | 19 | 173 | 316 | 23 | 35.94 |
21 | Bramley | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 153 | 371 | 18 | 30 |
22 | Hunslet | 32 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 190 | 298 | 17 | 26.56 |
23 | Bradford Northern | 32 | 6 | 1 | 25 | 177 | 656 | 13 | 20.31 |
24 | Keighley | 34 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 159 | 655 | 10 | 14.71 |
25 | Salford | 32 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 111 | 463 | 6 | 9.37 |
Championship Play-Off
Semi-finals | Championship Final | ||||||||
1 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 26 | |||||||
4 | Wigan | 4 | |||||||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 14 | ||||||||
Hull | 16 | ||||||||
2 | Hull | 27 | |||||||
3 | Halifax | 10 | |||||||
Challenge Cup
Leigh defeated Halifax 13-0 in the final played at Broughton in front of a crowd of 25,000. [3]
This was Leigh’s first Challenge Cup Final win in their first final appearance.