1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season

The 1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 11th season of rugby league football.

1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season
LeagueChampionship
1905–06 Season
Champions Leigh (1st title)
Runners-up Hunslet
Top point-scorer(s)England Jim Leytham ( Wigan) (160)
Top try-scorer(s)England Jim Leytham ( Wigan) (44)

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. [1]

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.[2]

There was no county league competition this season. 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.

Championship
Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts Pct
1Leigh3023252451304880.00
2Hunslet3225073701485078.12
3Leeds3425273771235276.47
4Oldham40282104461255872.50
5Keighley2819182551643969.64
6Wigan34221114411674566.17
7Hull Kingston Rovers36223112462184765.27
8Broughton Rangers34211124002224363.23
9Halifax38208102612324863.15
10Runcorn30173102641363761.66
11Huddersfield30172112241743660.00
12Bradford34192133711994058.82
13Swinton32173122031683757.81
14St. Helens30161132442123355.00
15Warrington38193162701844153.94
16Wakefield Trinity32134151882623046.87
17Hull36161193042203345.83
18Salford34143172722703145.58
19Pontefract28111162111962341.07
20Batley34115181732152739.70
21Widnes28102161292422239.28
22Dewsbury36132211622522838.88
23Bramley2692151262462038.46
24York34112211702492435.29
25Barrow3294191383242234.37
26Normanton244218502801020.83
27Millom20321577328820.00
28Castleford20321545325820.00
29Rochdale Hornets3236231053271218.75
30Morecambe26242099282815.38
31Brighouse Rangers26322187333815.38

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.[3]

Sources

References
  1. "1905-06 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  2. Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 205. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
  3. "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
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