1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season

Rugby league season

1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season
League	Championship
Teams	26
Champions	Wigan (2nd title)
League Leaders	Oldham
Runners-up	Oldham
Top point-scorer(s)	Reg Farrar ( Oldham) (213)
Top try-scorer(s)	Reg Farrar ( Oldham) (49)
Joined League	Featherstone Rovers
← 1920–21 1922–23 →

The 1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 27th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Featherstone Rovers joined the competition this season.

In November, winger Harold Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 transfer when he moved from Hunslet to Leeds.

Oldham had ended the regular season as the league leaders.

Wigan won their second ever Championship this season when they defeated Oldham 13–2 in the play-off final.

The 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain also took place during the season, with many of the clubs playing games against the visiting Australasian team.

Oldham won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Warrington beat Oldham 7–5 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Dewsbury 11–3 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Oldham	36	29	1	6	521	201	59	81.94
2	Wigan	32	22	1	9	446	159	45	70.31
3	Hull F.C.	38	25	0	13	538	326	50	65.79
4	Huddersfield	36	23	1	12	608	271	47	65.28
5	Leeds	38	24	1	13	583	289	49	64.47
6	Batley	38	23	2	13	381	299	48	63.16
7	Rochdale Hornets	34	20	2	12	352	225	42	61.76
8	Halifax	36	21	2	13	418	218	44	61.11
9	Leigh	34	19	3	12	295	228	41	60.29
10	York	36	21	1	14	311	231	43	59.72
11	Hull Kingston Rovers	38	21	0	17	420	356	42	55.26
12	St Helens Recs	36	19	1	16	417	315	39	54.17
13	Dewsbury	36	19	1	16	290	339	39	54.17
14	Barrow	34	18	0	16	311	321	36	52.94
15	Warrington	36	16	1	19	285	418	33	45.83
16	Widnes	32	13	3	16	227	240	29	45.31
17	Wakefield Trinity	36	16	0	20	335	313	32	44.44
18	Broughton Rangers	32	13	2	17	284	247	28	43.75
19	Hunslet	36	13	5	18	215	400	31	43.05
20	Swinton	34	14	0	20	248	312	28	41.18
21	Bramley	34	13	2	19	251	496	28	41.18
22	St. Helens	34	12	1	21	255	399	25	36.76
23	Salford	34	9	4	21	164	312	22	32.35
24	Featherstone Rovers	36	10	2	24	280	463	22	30.55
25	Keighley	36	4	1	31	134	581	9	12.5
26	Bradford Northern	34	2	1	31	134	744	5	7.35

Championship play-off

Semi-finals			Championship final

1	Oldham	13

4	Huddersfield	5
			Oldham	2

			Wigan	13
2	Wigan	27

3	Hull	8

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1921-22 Challenge Cup

The 1921–22 Challenge Cup was won by Rochdale Hornets who defeated Hull F.C. 10–9 in the final at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 6 May 1922, in front of a crowd of 32,596. This was Rochdale's first Challenge Cup Final win in their first, and as of 2017 their only, Challenge Cup Final appearance.

Sources

1921-22 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

References

"1921-22 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
Baker, Andrew (1995-08-20). "100 years of rugby league: From the great divide to the Super era". Independent, The. independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
"Hornets' One And Only Challenge Cup Final Win". hornetsrugbyleague.co.uk. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
"RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
"A complete history of Hull FC's Challenge Cup finals". Hull Daily Mail. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

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v t e Wigan squad – 1921–22 Championship Final winners
1 Jim Sullivan 2 Tom Coles 3 Tommy Howley 4 Jerry Shea 5 Ted Smith 6 Sid Jerram 7 George Hesketh 8 Harry Banks 9 Percy Coldrick 10 Wilf Hodder 11 Fred Roffey 12 Ernie Shaw 13 Tom Woods

v t e Wigan Warriors
Est. 1872 in Wigan, England
The Club	History Players Seasons Internationals
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Titles	RFL/Super League Championship: 1908–09 1921–22 1925–26 1933–34 1945–46 1946–47 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1995–96 1998 2010 2013 2016 2018 2023 World Club Challenge (4): 1987 1991 1994 2017 2024 Challenge Cup: 1924 1929 1944 1948 1951 1958 1959 1965 1985 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 2002 2011 2013 2022 2024
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Culture	Clash of the Codes Rivalries Leeds St Helens Warrington Wolves
Affiliation	Wigan Warriors Women Wigan Warriors Wheelchair

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