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1921 NSWRFL season
Rugby league competition
Rugby league competition
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| year | 1921 | |
| competition | New South Wales Rugby Football League | |
| imagesize | 125px | |
| teams | 9 | |
| premiers | [[Image:North Sydney colours.svg | 16x16px]] North Sydney |
| count | 1st | |
| minor premiers | [[Image:North Sydney colours.svg | 16x16px]] North Sydney |
| mpcount | 1st | |
| matches | 36 | |
| points | 1086 | |
| top point scorer | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Rex Norman (75) |
| top try scorer | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Gordon Wright (11) |
| wooden_spoon | University | |
| wooden_spoon_count | 1st | |
| prevseason_link | 1920 NSWRFL season | |
| prevseason_year | 1920 | |
| nextseason_link | 1922 NSWRFL season | |
| nextseason_year | 1922 |
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. The 1921 season also saw the St George club enter the competition, replacing the Annandale club, who after eleven 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 scrums became largely uncontested.
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.
- 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
| **South Sydney** | ||
|---|---|---|
| [[Image:South Sydney Jersey 1917.png | 100px | center]]14th season |
| Ground: Sydney Sports Ground | ||
| Coach: Howard Hallett | ||
| Captains:Arthur Oxford, Ted McGrath | **University** | |
| [[Image:Sydney University Jersey 1921.png | 100px | center]]2nd Season |
| Coach: Bill Kelly | ||
| Captain: Alan McLeod | **Western Suburbs** | |
| [[Image:Western Suburbs Jersey 1919.png | 100px | center]]14th season |
| Ground: Pratten Park | ||
| Captain-Coach: Viv Farnsworth |
Ladder
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [[Image:North Sydney colours.svg | 16x16px]] North Sydney | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172 | 82 | +90 |
| 2 | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 187 | 67 | +120 |
| 3 | [[Image:Glebe colours.svg | 16x16px]] Glebe | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 115 | 71 | +44 |
| 4 | [[Image:Balmain colours.svg | 16x16px]] Balmain | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 135 | 71 | +64 |
| 5 | [[Image:South Sydney colours.svg | 16x16px]] South Sydney | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 141 | 104 | +37 |
| 6 | [[Image:Newtown colours.svg | 16x16px]] Newtown | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 77 | 117 | -40 |
| 7 | [[Image:St. George colours.svg | 16x16px]] St George | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 87 | 124 | -37 |
| 8 | [[Image:Western Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Western Suburbs | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 90 | 155 | -65 |
| 9 | [[Image:University colours.svg | 16x16px]] Sydney University | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 82 | 295 | -213 |
References
References
- [http://www.rl1908.com/clubcomps/Honours.htm Premiership Roll of Honour] {{webarchive. link. (2011-05-14 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". [[Australian Rugby League]].
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