1925–26 Northern Rugby Football League season
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League | Northern Rugby Football League | |||
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Number of teams | 27 | |||
Champions | File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan | |||
League Leaders | File:Wigancolours.svg Wigan | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | File:Wigancolours.svg Jim Sullivan 274 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | File:Wigancolours.svg Johnny Ring 63 | |||
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The 1925–26 Rugby Football League season was the thirty first season of rugby league football.
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Season summary
Having ended the regular season as the league leaders, Wigan went on to claim their third Championship by beating Warrington 22-10 in the play-off final.
Swinton beat Oldham 9-3 in the Challenge Cup Final.[1]
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Hull Kingston Rovers won the Yorkshire League. Swinton beat Wigan 15–11 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Dewsbury beat Huddersfield 2–0 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Wigan | 38 | 29 | 3 | 6 | 641 | 310 | 61 | 80.26 |
2 | Warrington | 36 | 27 | 1 | 8 | 472 | 279 | 55 | 76.38 |
3 | Swinton | 36 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 442 | 223 | 54 | 75 |
4 | Hull | 38 | 24 | 3 | 11 | 547 | 329 | 51 | 67.1 |
5 | St. Helens Recs | 36 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 437 | 278 | 48 | 66.66 |
6 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 34 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 416 | 320 | 43 | 63.23 |
7 | Oldham | 34 | 19 | 3 | 12 | 431 | 251 | 41 | 60.29 |
8 | Wakefield Trinity | 36 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 445 | 317 | 43 | 59.72 |
9 | Leeds | 36 | 20 | 2 | 14 | 526 | 311 | 42 | 58.33 |
10 | St Helens | 34 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 410 | 282 | 38 | 55.88 |
11 | Batley | 38 | 20 | 2 | 16 | 325 | 296 | 42 | 55.26 |
12 | York | 36 | 19 | 0 | 17 | 359 | 350 | 38 | 52.77 |
13 | Halifax | 38 | 19 | 2 | 17 | 364 | 323 | 40 | 52.63 |
14 | Barrow | 36 | 17 | 3 | 16 | 313 | 303 | 37 | 51.38 |
15 | Featherstone Rovers | 32 | 15 | 2 | 15 | 362 | 362 | 32 | 50 |
16 | Dewsbury | 36 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 310 | 402 | 36 | 50 |
17 | Widnes | 34 | 15 | 0 | 19 | 339 | 397 | 30 | 44.11 |
18 | Huddersfield | 36 | 14 | 2 | 20 | 365 | 474 | 30 | 41.66 |
19 | Wigan Highfield | 32 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 280 | 323 | 25 | 39.06 |
20 | Hunslet | 36 | 14 | 0 | 22 | 389 | 435 | 28 | 38.88 |
21 | Salford | 34 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 246 | 393 | 26 | 38.23 |
22 | Rochdale Hornets | 36 | 13 | 1 | 22 | 320 | 414 | 27 | 37.5 |
23 | Bradford Northern | 38 | 14 | 0 | 24 | 306 | 580 | 28 | 36.84 |
24 | Leigh | 32 | 8 | 2 | 22 | 270 | 435 | 18 | 28.12 |
25 | Broughton Rangers | 34 | 9 | 0 | 25 | 316 | 510 | 18 | 26.47 |
26 | Keighley | 36 | 9 | 1 | 26 | 290 | 577 | 19 | 26.38 |
27 | Bramley | 34 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 152 | 588 | 6 | 8.82 |
Championship Play-Off
Semi-finals | Championship Final | ||||||||
1 | Wigan | 34 | |||||||
4 | Hull | 0 | |||||||
Wigan | 22 | ||||||||
Warrington | 10 | ||||||||
2 | Warrington | 11 | |||||||
3 | Swinton | 8 | |||||||
Challenge Cup
Swinton beat Oldham 9-3 in the final played at Rochdale before a crowd of 27,000.
This was Swinton’s second appearance in the Final and their second Cup Final win. Their previous victory was in 1900. [2]