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1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season

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title	1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season
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season	1905–06 Season
season_champs	Leigh (1st title)
season_champ_name	Champions
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second_place	Hunslet
top_scorer	ENG Jim Leytham ( Wigan) (160)
top try scorer	ENG Jim Leytham ( Wigan) (44)
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nextseason_link	1906–07 Northern Rugby Football Union season
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The 1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 11th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Leigh won the Championship for the first time this season and Bradford their first Challenge Cup.

The two divisions were combined into one competition, with Lancaster dropping out to reduce it to 31 teams. Clubs from the same county all played each other, and arranged inter-county matches as and when they could. Because not all clubs played the same number of matches positions were decided on percentages.

Featherstone Rovers, who were an amateur team at this time knocked a professional side out of the Challenge Cup, when they beat Widnes 23-2 in the second round.

There was no county league competition this season.

Championship

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Leigh	30	23	2	5	245	130	48
2	Hunslet	32	25	0	7	370	148	50
3	Leeds	34	25	2	7	377	123	52
4	Oldham	40	28	2	10	446	125	58
5	Keighley	28	19	1	8	255	164	39
6	Wigan	34	22	1	11	441	167	45
7	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	22	3	11	246	218	47
8	Broughton Rangers	34	21	1	12	400	222	43
9	Halifax	38	20	8	10	261	232	48
10	Runcorn	30	17	3	10	264	136	37
11	Huddersfield	30	17	2	11	224	174	36
12	Bradford	34	19	2	13	371	199	40
13	Swinton	32	17	3	12	203	168	37
14	St. Helens	30	16	1	13	244	212	33
15	Warrington	38	19	3	16	270	184	41
16	Wakefield Trinity	32	13	4	15	188	262	30
17	Hull	36	16	1	19	304	220	33
18	Salford	34	14	3	17	272	270	31
19	Pontefract	28	11	1	16	211	196	23
20	Batley	34	11	5	18	173	215	27
21	Widnes	28	10	2	16	129	242	22
22	Dewsbury	36	13	2	21	162	252	28
23	Bramley	26	9	2	15	126	246	20
24	York	34	11	2	21	170	249	24
25	Barrow	32	9	4	19	138	324	22
26	Normanton	24	4	2	18	50	280	10
27	Millom	20	3	2	15	77	328	8
28	Castleford	20	3	2	15	45	325	8
29	Rochdale Hornets	32	3	6	23	105	327	12
30	Morecambe	26	2	4	20	99	282	8
31	Brighouse Rangers	26	3	2	21	87	333	8

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1906 Challenge Cup

Bradford beat Salford 5-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 15,834 to win the Cup in their first appearance in the final.

County cups

Main article: 1905–06 Lancashire Cup

Main article: 1905–06 Yorkshire Cup

The inaugural Rugby league county cups took place this season, and Wigan beat Leigh 0–0 (replay 8–0) to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hunslet beat Halifax 13–3 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Sources

References

"1905-06 Season summary".
(1995). "Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996". Headline Book Publishing.
"RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour".

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