1937–38 Northern Rugby Football League season

League

Northern Rugby Football League

Number of teams

RFL Championship

Champions

Hunslet

League Leaders

Hunslet

Top point-scorer(s)

Jim Sullivan 285

Top try-scorer(s)

Eric Harris 45

< 1936–37	Seasons	1938–39 >

The 1937–38 Rugby Football League season was the forty third season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Hunslet won their second, and to date last, Championship when they defeated Leeds 8-2 in the play-off final. They had also finished the regular season as the league leaders. The final was due to have taken place at Belle View, Wakefield, but as both clubs were from Leeds, the authorities switched the match to Elland Road in Leeds, with the final being played on 30 April 1938 in front of a crowd of 54,112.^[1]

The Challenge Cup Winners were Salford who beat Barrow 7-4 in the final.^[2]

Warrington won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. Warrington beat Barrow 8–4 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Huddersfield 14–8 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Hunslet	36	25	3	8	459	301	53
2	Leeds	36	25	2	9	530	227	52
3	Swinton	36	24	2	10	392	198	50
4	Barrow	36	25	0	11	447	260	50
5	Warrington	36	23	1	12	534	286	47
6	Salford	36	23	1	12	493	293	47
7	Castleford	36	23	1	12	481	320	47
8	Widnes	36	22	2	12	475	210	46
9	Wigan	36	22	1	13	478	329	45
10	Wakefield Trinity	36	21	3	12	476	346	45
11	Oldham	36	21	2	13	392	276	44
12	Bradford Northern	36	20	4	12	439	355	44
13	Hull	36	19	3	14	479	364	41
14	Halifax	36	19	2	15	531	393	40
15	Batley	36	17	2	17	392	367	36
16	Keighley	36	17	2	17	267	318	36
17	Liverpool Stanley	36	17	1	18	284	324	35
18	York	36	15	5	16	381	492	35
19	Broughton Rangers	36	16	2	18	394	413	34
20	Dewsbury	36	15	1	20	388	407	31
21	St Helens	36	14	3	19	370	476	31
22	St. Helens Recs	36	15	1	20	353	471	31
23	Huddersfield	36	14	1	21	499	502	29
24	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	13	1	22	354	476	27
25	Rochdale Hornets	36	9	1	26	338	567	19
26	Featherstone Rovers	36	8	2	26	311	606	18
27	Leigh	36	7	3	26	203	597	17
28	Newcastle	36	2	4	30	206	750	8
29	Bramley	36	2	2	32	221	643	6

Championship Play-Off

Semi-finals			Championship Final


1	Hunslet	13

4	Barrow	7
			Hunslet	8

			Leeds	2
2	Leeds	5

3	Swinton	2

Challenge Cup

Salford beat Barrow 7-4 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 51,243. This was the lowest winning score in a Wembley final, only equalled in 1970.^[3]

This was Salford’s first Challenge Cup Final win in their fourth Final appearance.

This was Barrow’s first appearance in the Final.^[4]

Barrow: Freddie French, Val Cumberbatch, John Higgin, Des McDonnell, Jim Thornburrow, Ian Lloyd, Billy Little, Gordon Rawlings, Dan McKeating, Bill Skelly, Alec Troup, Bob Ayres, and Alf Marklew.

References

↑ "Club History, Facts and Figures". yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk. 2010-12-31. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
↑ "1937-38 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-03. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ [http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php? areaid=64 "RFL All Time Records"]. Archived from the original on 2009-09-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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