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1937 NSWRFL season
Rugby league competition
Rugby league competition
| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| year | 1937 | |
| competition | New South Wales Rugby Football League | |
| imagesize | 125px | |
| teams | 9 | |
| premiers | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs |
| count | 7th | |
| minor premiers | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs |
| mpcount | 8th | |
| matches | 36 | |
| points | 1088 | |
| top point scorer | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Jack Beaton (56) |
| top try scorer | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Fred Tottey (10) |
| wooden_spoon | University | |
| wooden_spoon_count | 10th | |
| prevseason_link | 1936 NSWRFL season | |
| prevseason_year | 1936 | |
| nextseason_link | 1938 NSWRFL season | |
| nextseason_year | 1938 |
The 1937 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 30th season of the Sydney, New South Wales-based top-grade rugby league club competition, Australia's first. Nine teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season, which lasted from April until June, with Eastern Suburbs being crowned champions.
Season summary
The 1937 season only lasted eight rounds due to the Kangaroo tour, and used a “first past the post” system to determine the premiers. There were no Finals. The second half of what would normally have been the NSWRFL season was taken up with a City Cup competition.
Eastern Suburbs won their seventh Premiership going through the season undefeated – a feat achieved by teams in only five other seasons before or since. Having won only two matches in four seasons and only fifteen (plus two draws) in the nine seasons since 1929, the University club withdrew voluntarily from the premiership at the end of the season.
Teams
1937 proved University’s final NSWRFL season. After being allowed one more season to prove themselves, the Students did not win a match in any grade, scoring only 41 points in first grade, 39 in reserves, and 21 in third grade – in which University veterans were allowed to play the second half of the last match as a farewell.
- Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908, at Balmain Town Hall
- Canterbury-Bankstown
- Eastern Suburbs, formed on January 24, 1908, at Paddington Town Hall
- 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
- University, formed in 1919 at Sydney University
- Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908
| **South Sydney**[[Image:South Sydney Jersey 1930.png | 100px | center]] | **St. George**[[Image:St George Jersey 1934.png | 100px | center]] | **University**[[Image:Sydney University Jersey 1929.png | 100px | center]] | **Western Suburbs**[[Image:Western Suburbs Jersey 1924.png | 100px | center]] |
|---|
Ladder
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 187 | 56 | +131 |
| 2 | [[Image:South Sydney colours.svg | 16x16px]] South Sydney | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 164 | 58 | +106 |
| 3 | [[Image:St. George colours.svg | 16x16px]] St. George | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 151 | 92 | +59 |
| 4 | [[Image:Newtown colours.svg | 16x16px]] Newtown | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 144 | 126 | +18 |
| 5 | [[Image:Canterbury colours.svg | 16x16px]] Canterbury | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 98 | 91 | +7 |
| 6 | [[Image:Balmain colours.svg | 16x16px]] Balmain | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 115 | 136 | -21 |
| 7 | [[Image:North Sydney colours.svg | 16x16px]] North Sydney | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 84 | 94 | -10 |
| 8 | [[Image:Western Suburbs colours.svg | 16x16px]] Western Suburbs | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 104 | 126 | -22 |
| 9 | [[Image:University colours.svg | 16x16px]] Sydney University | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 41 | 309 | -268 |
References
References
- [http://rl1908.com/clubcomps/Honours.htm Premiership Roll of Honour] {{webarchive. link. (2007-04-28 at ''rl1908.com'')
- "History of the Premiership". [[Australian Rugby League]].
- Lester, Gary; ''From Berries to Bulldogs: Fifty Years of Canterbury-Bankstown RLFC'', p. 25 {{ISBN. 0949853062
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