League | Northern Rugby Football Union | |||
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Number of teams | 26 | |||
Champions | Wigan | |||
League Leaders | Oldham | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | Reg Farrar (Oldham) 213 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | Reg Farrar (Oldham) 49 | |||
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The 1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the twenty seventh season of rugby league football.
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Featherstone Rovers joined the competition this season. [1]
In November, winger Harold Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 transfer when he moved from Hunslet to Leeds.[2]
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 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 Cup.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | Pts | Pct | |
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1 | Oldham | 36 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 521 | 201 | 59 | 81.94 |
2 | Wigan | 32 | 22 | 1 | 9 | 446 | 159 | 45 | 70.31 |
3 | Hull | 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 |
Semi-finals | Championship Final | |||||||
1 | Oldham | 13 | ||||||
4 | Huddersfield | 5 | ||||||
Oldham | 2 | |||||||
Wigan | 13 | |||||||
2 | Wigan | 27 | ||||||
3 | Hull | 8 |
Rochdale Hornets defeated Hull 10-9 in the final played at Leeds before a crowd of 32,596.
This was Rochdale’s first Challenge Cup Final win in their first Final appearance. [3]