1924–25 Northern Rugby Football League season

League

Northern Rugby Football League

Number of teams

Champions

Hull Kingston Rovers

League Leaders

Swinton

Top point-scorer(s)

Jim Sullivan 282

Top try-scorer(s)

Johnny Ring 54

< 1923–24	Seasons	1925–26 >

The 1924–25 Rugby Football League season was the 30th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Hull Kingston Rovers won their second Championship by defeating Swinton in the play-off final.

Swinton had ended the regular season as league leaders.

Oldham defeated Hull Kingston Rovers to win the Challenge Cup.^[1]

Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Hull Kingston Rovers won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat St.Helens Recs 10–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Batley 9–8 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Swinton	36	30	0	6	499	224	60	83.33
2	Hull Kingston Rovers	34	25	3	6	492	171	53	77.94
3	Wigan	36	27	1	8	784	258	55	76.38
4	St. Helens Recs	38	26	3	9	564	267	55	72.36
5	Oldham	34	21	1	12	533	248	43	68.23
6	Leeds	36	21	3	12	341	278	45	62.5
7	Huddersfield	36	21	1	14	458	351	43	59.72
8	Dewsbury	36	20	2	14	310	269	42	58.33
9	Warrington	36	19	2	15	427	386	40	55.55
10	St Helens	34	17	3	14	325	381	37	54.41
11	Batley	36	19	1	16	441	350	39	54.16
12	Rochdale Hornets	36	18	2	16	348	331	38	52.77
13	Hunslet	36	19	0	17	411	369	38	52.77
14	Wakefield Trinity	36	17	1	18	337	316	35	48.61
15	Keighley	36	17	1	18	305	420	35	48.51
16	Barrow	34	16	1	17	288	336	33	48.52
17	Featherstone Rovers	34	15	0	19	322	364	30	44.11
15	Hull	36	14	3	19	368	422	31	43.05
19	Salford	34	13	3	18	160	399	29	42.64
20	Leigh	34	13	1	20	328	433	27	39.7
21	Halifax	38	14	2	22	317	431	30	39.47
22	Broughton Rangers	34	12	1	21	244	429	25	36.76
23	York	36	12	1	23	272	351	25	34.72
24	Wigan Highfield	32	10	1	21	224	432	21	32.81
25	Widnes	34	10	1	23	257	462	21	30.83
26	Bradford Northern	38	8	4	26	285	584	20	26.31
27	Bramley	36	2	2	32	174	572	6	8.33

Championship Play-Off

Semi-finals			Championship Final


1	Swinton	20

4	St Helens Recreation	2
			Swinton	5

			Hull Kingston Rovers	9
2	Hull Kingston Rovers	13

3	Wigan	4

Challenge Cup

Oldham beat Hull Kingston Rovers 16-3 in the final played at Leeds before a crowd of 28,335.

This was Oldham’s fifth appearance in the Final and their second win. Their previous Cup Final win was back in 1899.^[2]

During this season's Cup competition, Wigan's Jim Sullivan set a Challenge Cup record for the most goals kicked in a match, when he was successful 22 times against the amateur team, Flimby and Fothergill.^[3]

References

↑ "1924-25 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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Hull Kingston Rovers

Founded in 1882 • Based in Kingston upon Hull, England

The Club	History Records Honours International representative players Coaches

Home grounds	Albert Street Anlaby Road Chalk Lane Hessle Road (2) Craven Street Ground The Boulevard Craven Park New Craven Park

Hall of Fame	Jonty Parkin Neil Fox Roger Millward

League	Super League

Championships (5)	1922–23 1924–25 1978–79 1983–84 1984–85

Challenge Cup (1)	1979–80

Seasons (x)	2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Affiliation	Rugby Football League (1897)

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