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1914–15 Northern Rugby Football Union season

20th season of rugby league football

Field	Value
title	1914–15 Northern Rugby Football Union season
league	Championship
no_of_teams	25
season	1914–15 Season
season_champs	Huddersfield (3rd title)
season_champ_name	Champions
league_leaders	Huddersfield
league_leaders_name	League Leaders
second_place	Leeds
top_scorer	WAL Ben Gronow ( Huddersfield) (284)
top try scorer	AUS Albert Rosenfeld ( Huddersfield) (56)
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season_champs3
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prevseason_link	1913–14 Northern Rugby Football Union season
prevseason_year	1913–14
nextseason_link	1915–16 Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season
nextseason_year	1915–16

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Season summary

The 1914-15 season began just a month after Britain had declared War on Germany following their invasion of Belgium in early August. Tensions across Europe had seen a full scale "World War" develop in late July but despite this the 1914-1915 season was played to its conclusion before competitive competition was finally suspended. In fact the season kicked off on 5 September, the same day the first big battle of World War I (the Battle of the Marne) began in which the Franco-British defeated the Germans.

Huddersfield finished the regular season on top of the league and added their third Championship by defeating Leeds 35-2 in the play-off final.

The Challenge Cup winners were Huddersfield who beat St Helens 37-3. In the final Huddersfield scored a Final’s record nine tries.

During their Cup run they recorded the largest win in any Cup Round when they trounced the amateurs of Swinton Park 119-2.

Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Rochdale Hornets beat Wigan 3–2 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Huddersfield beat Hull F.C. 31–0 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Huddersfield	34	28	4	2	888	235	60
2	Wigan	32	25	1	6	679	206	51
3	Leeds	34	24	3	7	486	207	51
4	Rochdale Hornets	34	24	2	8	306	194	50
5	Hull	36	24	1	11	705	301	49
6	Broughton Rangers	30	18	1	11	308	289	37
7	St. Helens	32	19	0	13	368	342	38
8	Halifax	34	18	3	13	342	268	39
9	Oldham	34	17	4	13	375	301	38
10	Wakefield Trinity	32	17	1	14	309	340	35
11	Hull Kingston Rovers	34	17	2	15	374	324	36
12	Widnes	32	14	3	15	291	292	31
13	Warrington	32	14	3	15	242	323	31
14	Batley	34	15	1	18	229	288	31
15	Leigh	31	14	0	17	252	185	28
16	Swinton	30	13	1	16	171	240	27
17	Dewsbury	32	12	2	18	310	353	26
18	Hunslet	32	12	0	20	298	356	24
19	Bradford Northern	32	11	1	20	249	464	23
20	Bramley	32	11	1	20	143	474	23
21	Salford	30	8	4	18	134	313	20
22	Barrow	32	10	1	21	288	363	21
23	York	32	9	2	21	261	422	20
24	Keighley	30	6	2	22	120	542	14
25	Runcorn	27	0	1	26	84	590	1

Championship play-off

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1915 Challenge Cup

Huddersfield defeated St. Helens 37-3 in the Challenge Cup Final, on 1 May, held at Watersheddings, Oldham before a crowd of 8,000.

This was Huddersfield’s second Challenge Cup win in as many Final appearances.

St Helens team - 1 Bert Roberts, 2 Tom Barton, 3 Jimmy Flanagan, 4 Tom White, 5 Henry Greenall, 6 Matt Creevey, 7 Fred Trenwith, 8 George Farrimond, 9 Sam Daniels – Try, 10 James Shallcross, 11 William Jackson, 12 Tom Durkin, 13 William Myers

Sources

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