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1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season

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Field	Value
title	1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season
league	Championship
duration	34 Rounds
no_of_teams	First Division: 18
Second Division: 18
season	First Division
season_champs	Halifax (1st title)
season_champ_name	Champions
league_leaders
league_leaders_name
second_place	Salford
top_scorer	WAL Wharton Davies ( Batley) (136)
relegate	St Helens
Brighouse Rangers
relegate_to	Second Division
season2	Second Division
season_champs2	Keighley
season_champ_name2	Champions
top_scorer2	Evans (27)
promote2	Keighley
Leeds
promote_from2	Second Division
leave3	Manningham
Stockport
leave_reason3	Resigned from the League
prevseason_link	1901–02 Northern Rugby Football Union season
prevseason_year	1901–02
nextseason_link	1903–04 Northern Rugby Football Union season
nextseason_year	1903–04

Second Division: 18

Brighouse Rangers

Leeds

Stockport

The 1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the eighth season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Overview

League Champions: Halifax

Challenge Cup Winners: Halifax (7-0 v Salford)

2nd Division Champions: Keighley

Summary

Four of the top five clubs from the 1901–02 Lancashire Senior Competition; Hull Kingston Rovers (although based in Yorkshire, and having played in the Yorkshire Senior Competition for the 1899–1900 and 1900–01 seasons, they had played the 1901–02 season in the Lancashire Senior Competition), St. Helens, Widnes, and Wigan joined the 14-clubs from the previous season's 1901–02 Northern Rugby League to make an 18-club Division 1, the exception was Barrow who despite finishing fourth in the 1901–02 Lancashire Senior Competition joined Division 2.

At the end of the season Manningham Rugby Club decided to switch to association football and became Bradford City A.F.C., whilst staying at Valley Parade.

Tables

First Division

Second Division

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1903 Challenge Cup

Halifax beat Salford 7-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 32,507

Sources

References

"1902-03 Season summary".
"Bradford City History". Bradford City Football Club.
"Valley Parade History". The Bradford City Football Club Museum.
(1995). "Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-96". Headline Publishing Group.
"RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour".

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