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1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season

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Field	Value
title	1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season
league	Championship
no_of_teams	First Division: 18
Second Division: 14
season	First Division
season_champs	Oldham (1st title)
season_champ_name	Champions
league_leaders
league_leaders_name
second_place	Bradford F.C.
top_scorer	ENG James Lomas Salford) (146)
top try scorer	James Dechan ( Bradford F.C.) (31)
season2	Second Division
season_champs2	Dewsbury
season_champ_name2	Champions
leave3	Birkenhead
Holbeck
South Shields
Lancaster
leave_reason3	Resigned from the League
prevseason_link	1903–04 Northern Rugby Football Union season
prevseason_year	1903–04
nextseason_link	1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season
nextseason_year	1905–06

Second Division: 14 Holbeck South Shields Lancaster The 1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the tenth season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Oldham won their first Division One Championship whilst Warrington won the Challenge Cup.

Holbeck and South Shields dropped out, reducing the competition to 15 teams.

Birkenhead resigned after 4 games, the results of which were struck out of the table. They lost all four games, conceding 93 points and scoring none.

On 4 March 1905, a record 11 tries were scored by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers in the Northern Union Challenge Cup. In this same match the record for most points in a match, 53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) was recorded.

There was no county league competition this season.

At the end of the season, all division one and division two clubs. except Lancaster, were elected to the new single top division, the NRFU Championship.

Notable events

At the start of this season, the Northern Union changed its rules to allow clubs to have full-time players paid by the clubs, thus making it fully professional.{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture|author=Michael Higgins |author2=Clarissa Smith, John Storey |year= 2010

Division One

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Oldham	34	25	1	8	291	158
2	Bradford	34	23	2	9	294	156
3	Broughton Rangers	34	22	2	10	295	175
4	Leeds	34	20	4	10	232	150
5	Warrington	34	20	2	12	220	150
6	Salford	34	19	2	13	276	204
7	Wigan	34	18	1	15	230	195
8	Hull	34	15	4	15	224	214
9	Hunslet	34	16	1	17	240	216
10	Halifax	34	15	2	17	204	155
11	Leigh	34	14	3	17	165	209
12	Hull Kingston Rovers	34	15	0	19	200	220
13	Swinton	34	13	2	19	155	196
14	Wakefield Trinity	34	13	2	19	154	211
15	Batley	34	12	3	19	160	228
16	Widnes	34	13	1	20	128	280
17	St. Helens	34	9	1	24	168	351
18	Runcorn	34	7	1	26	133	301

Division two

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Dewsbury	26	22	2	2	247	48
2	Barrow	26	22	0	4	286	68
3	York	26	18	3	5	205	76
4	Keighley	26	15	2	9	259	94
5	Huddersfield	26	14	2	10	231	143
6	Rochdale Hornets	26	11	4	11	154	145
7	Millom	26	12	0	14	139	173
8	Pontefract	26	10	1	15	156	175
9	Castleford	26	9	3	14	104	199
10	Normanton	26	9	1	16	105	228
11	Brighouse Rangers	26	8	1	17	111	169
12	Lancaster	26	8	1	17	106	257
13	Morecambe	26	7	2	17	88	272
14	Bramley	26	5	2	19	95	239

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1905 Challenge Cup

Warrington beat Hull Kingston Rovers 6–0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 19,638 to win the Cup at their third attempt in a final.

References

"1904-05 Season summary".
(1995). "Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996". Headline Book Publishing.

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