1921 NSWRFL season

1921 New South Wales Rugby Football League
Teams	9
Premiers	North Sydney (1st title)
Minor premiers	North Sydney (1st title)
Matches played	36
Points scored	1086 (total) 30.167 (per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Rex Norman (75)
Top try scorer(s)	Gordon Wright (11)

The 1921 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the fourteenth season of Australia’s first rugby league football club competition which was based in Sydney. Nine teams from across the city contested the season, with North Sydney being crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top of the League.^[1] The 1921 season also saw the St George club enter the competition, replacing the Annandale club, who after thirteen seasons, exited the League.

Season summary

Because the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain departed in mid-July only one series of nine rounds was played, with the second series being devoted to the City Cup. The premiership was decided with no finals on a first-past-the-post basis.

Premiers North Sydney became the second team to go through a season undefeated - seven wins and an 8-8 draw with Easts in round 5. Their brilliant performance earned them their maiden premiership.

University became the third team to have gone through a season winless, as Annandale had done the previous season and in 1918. University’s season yielded eight losses from eight starts, conceding 295 points at an average of 36.88 per match.

The season saw an experiment with referees instead of halfbacks feeding the scrum. Although the experiment was very quickly viewed a dismal failure and abandoned, the amendment was sometimes advocated in later years after scums became largely uncontested.^[2]

Teams

With the addition of St George in place of the recently departed Annandale club, the number of teams in the League remained at nine.^[3]

Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908 at Balmain Town Hall
Eastern Suburbs, formed on January 24, 1908 at Paddington Town Hall
Glebe, formed on January 9, 1908
Newtown, formed on January 14, 1908
North Sydney, formed on February 7, 1908
South Sydney, formed on January 17, 1908 at Redfern Town Hall
St George, formed on November 8, 1920 at Kogarah School of Arts
Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908
University, formed in 1919 at Sydney University


Balmain 14th season Ground: Birchgrove Oval Captain-Coach: Charles Fraser	Eastern Suburbs 14th season Ground: Sydney Cricket Ground Captain-Coach: Sandy Pearce Captain: Harry Caples	Glebe 14th season Ground: Wentworth Park Captain: Frank Burge
Newtown 14th season Ground: Marrickville Oval Captain: Alex Bolewski	North Sydney Ground: North Sydney Oval Coach: Chris McKivat Captain: Harold Horder/ Duncan Thompson	St. George 1st season Ground: Hurstville Oval Captain & Coach Herb Gilbert
South Sydney 14th season Ground: Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Howard Hallett Captains:Arthur Oxford, Ted McGrath	University 2nd Season Coach: Bill Kelly Captain: Alan McLeod	Western Suburbs 14th season Ground: Pratten Park Captain-Coach: Viv Farnsworth

Ladder

The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1921 premiership across Sydney.

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	North Sydney	8	7	1	0	1	172	82	+90	17
2	Eastern Suburbs	8	6	1	1	1	187	67	+120	15
3	Glebe	8	6	0	2	1	115	71	+44	14
4	Balmain	8	5	0	3	1	135	71	+64	12
5	South Sydney	8	4	0	4	1	141	104	+37	10
6	Newtown	8	3	0	5	1	77	117	-40	8
7	St George	8	2	0	6	1	87	124	-37	6
8	Western Suburbs	8	2	0	6	1	90	155	-65	6
9	University	8	0	0	8	1	82	295	-213	2

References

↑ Premiership Roll of Honour at rl1908.com
↑ Lester, Gary; Clouds of Dust, Buckets of Blood: the Story of the Western Suburbs Rugby League Magpies; p. 56. ISBN 0949853526
↑ "History of the Premiership". centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au. Australian Rugby League. Retrieved 21 October 2013.

Rugby League Tables - Notes The World of Rugby League
Rugby League Tables - Season 1921 The World of Rugby League
Premiership History and Statistics RL1908
Results: 1921-30 at rabbitohs.com.au

North Sydney Bears

Est. 1908 in Sydney, New South Wales

The Club	History (Northern Eagles) Records Players Honours Coaches

Home grounds	North Sydney Oval Central Coast Stadium

Culture	North Sydney Leagues Club

Important figures	Ken Irvine Greg Florimo

League	NSWRL ARL NRL New South Wales Cup

Premierships (2)	1921 1922

Seasons

Other competitions	Current S. G. Ball Cup Harold Matthews Cup Past Amco Cup Jersey Flegg Cup

Affiliations	South Sydney Rabbitohs Central Coast Bears Tweed Heads Seagulls Manly-Warringah/North Sydney District Rugby League North Sydney Bowling Club North Sydney Chess Club

NRL seasons

NSWRL era	1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994

ARL / SL war	1995 1996 1997 (ARL / SL)

NRL era	1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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