1928–29 Northern Rugby Football League season

Rugby league season

1928–29 Northern Rugby Football League season
League	Championship
Teams	28
Champions	Huddersfield (4th title)
League Leaders	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Leeds
Top point-scorer(s)	Jim Sullivan (226)
Top try-scorer(s)	Lou Brown Ernie Mills (44)
Joined League	Carlisle City
Resigned from the League	Carlisle City
← 1927–28 1929–30 →

The 1928–29 Rugby Football League season was the 34th season of rugby league football.

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.

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.

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.

Championship

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PAv	PCT	Qualification
1	Huddersfield	38	26	4	8	476	291	1.636	73.68	Qualification for the Championship play-offs
2	Hull Kingston Rovers	40	27	3	10	436	239	1.824	71.25
3	Leeds	38	26	2	10	695	270	2.574	71.05
4	Salford	34	23	2	9	395	222	1.779	70.59
5	Wigan	38	26	1	11	636	308	2.065	69.74
6	Swinton	36	23	2	11	429	249	1.723	66.67
7	Warrington	36	22	2	12	568	295	1.925	63.89
8	St Helens Recs	38	22	1	15	545	374	1.457	59.21
9	Oldham	36	18	4	14	439	343	1.280	55.56
10	Hunslet	38	19	4	15	539	356	1.514	55.26
11	St Helens	38	19	4	15	460	381	1.207	55.26
12	Hull	40	20	4	16	458	395	1.159	55.00
13	Leigh	34	17	3	14	285	279	1.022	54.41
14	Wigan Highfield	32	16	1	15	262	333	0.787	51.56
15	Dewsbury	36	17	2	17	380	387	0.982	50.00
16	Halifax	40	18	3	19	379	399	0.950	48.75
17	Wakefield Trinity	40	17	4	19	400	461	0.868	47.50
18	Barrow	32	13	2	17	396	387	1.023	43.75
19	Batley	38	14	2	22	278	442	0.629	39.47
20	Broughton Rangers	30	11	1	18	235	401	0.586	38.33
21	Castleford	34	11	4	19	268	369	0.726	38.24
22	York	34	12	0	22	259	409	0.633	35.29
23	Bramley	34	11	2	21	241	437	0.551	35.29
24	Widnes	34	11	2	21	222	439	0.506	35.29
25	Featherstone Rovers	38	10	4	24	277	451	0.614	31.58
26	Rochdale Hornets	34	10	0	24	235	434	0.541	29.41
27	Keighley	34	8	2	24	209	422	0.495	26.47
28	Bradford Northern	38	5	3	30	242	871	0.278	17.11
–	Carlisle City	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—

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Notes:

Carlisle City resigned from the league in November and folded. Their record (Pld 10, W 1, L 9, PF 59, PA 166, PCT 10.00) was expunged.

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

County leagues

Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League.

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1928–29 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.

This was Wigan’s second Challenge Cup Final win in their fourth Cup Final appearance.

County cups

Main article: 1928–29 Lancashire Cup Main article: 1928–29 Yorkshire Cup

Wigan beat Widnes 5–4 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Featherstone Rovers 5–0 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

References

Demsteader, Christine (2000-10-01). "Rugby League's home from home". BBC Sport. UK: BBC. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
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"Swinton Lions History". Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
Fletcher, Raymond; Howes, David, eds. (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-96. London: Headline Publishing Group. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-7472-7817-7.
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.
"RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
"Historic Wigan RL Moments: 1929 Challenge Cup Final". wigan.rlfans.com. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.

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