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1926–27 Northern Rugby Football League season

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Field	Value
title	1926–27 Northern Rugby Football League season
league	Championship
no_of_teams	29
season_champs	Swinton (1st title)
season_champ_name	Champions
league_leaders	St Helens Recreation
league_leaders_name	League Leaders
second_place	St Helens Recreation
top_scorer	WAL Jim Sullivan ( Wigan) (322)
top try scorer	ENG Alf Ellaby ( St Helens) (55)
join	Castleford
Pontypridd
join_method	Joined League
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season_champs3
season_champ_name3
prevseason_link	1925–26 Northern Rugby Football League season
prevseason_year	1925–26
nextseason_link	1927–28 Northern Rugby Football League season
nextseason_year	1927–28

Pontypridd

The 1926–27 Rugby Football League season was the 32nd season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Swinton won their first Championship by beating St. Helens Recs 13–8 in the play-off final.

St. Helens Recs had finished the regular season as league leaders.

Oldham beat Swinton 26–7 to win the Challenge Cup.

The league increased to 29 clubs with the addition of Castleford and Pontypridd.

St.Helens Recs won the Lancashire League, and Hull F.C. won the Yorkshire League. St. Helens beat St. Helens Recs 10–2 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Huddersfield beat Wakefield Trinity 10–3 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	St Helens Recs	38	29	3	6	544	235	61
2	Swinton	38	29	2	7	471	275	60
3	Wigan	40	29	0	11	691	366	58
4	St. Helens	34	23	1	10	538	283	47
5	Hull	38	25	1	12	434	317	51
6	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	21	5	10	456	244	47
7	Leigh	36	23	1	12	404	331	47
8	Rochdale Hornets	36	23	0	13	378	285	46
9	Leeds	40	23	1	16	582	371	47
10	Hunslet	42	24	1	17	533	380	49
11	Featherstone Rovers	38	21	1	16	504	369	43
12	Dewsbury	38	20	3	15	344	284	43
13	Oldham	38	19	4	15	489	346	42
14	Halifax	40	19	4	17	411	289	42
15	Wakefield Trinity	36	17	3	16	386	330	37
16	Warrington	38	18	1	19	409	524	37
17	Barrow	38	18	0	20	311	412	36
18	York	36	16	1	19	368	519	33
19	Batley	36	14	2	20	317	325	30
20	Salford	36	14	2	20	306	353	30
21	Broughton Rangers	36	14	1	21	369	392	29
22	Keighley	36	14	1	21	242	469	29
23	Huddersfield	40	16	0	24	414	562	32
24	Widnes	34	11	0	23	283	479	22
25	Wigan Highfield	34	9	1	24	239	383	19
26	Bramley	36	8	1	27	200	636	17
27	Pontypridd	32	7	1	24	223	447	15
28	Bradford Northern	36	6	0	30	288	652	12
29	Castleford	36	5	1	30	274	550	11

Championship play-off

Semifinals:

St Helens Recreation 33 beat St Helens 0.

Swinton 23 beat Wigan 3.

Final:

Swinton 13 beat St Helens Recreation 8.

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1926–27 Challenge Cup

In the Challenge Cup tournament's final Oldham faced Swinton. It was the first radio broadcast of the Challenge Cup final by the BBC. Oldham won 26–7 in the final played at Wigan in front of a crowd of 33,448. This was Oldham's fourth consecutive appearance in the final and their second win in that period. It was their seventh overall appearance in a Challenge Cup Final and their third success overall.

References

Sources

References

"1926-27 Season summary".
"The History Of Rugby League". napit.co.uk.
"RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour".

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