1931–32 Northern Rugby Football League season

1931–32 Northern Rugby Football League season
League	Northern Rugby Football League
Teams	28
Champions	St. Helens
League Leaders	Huddersfield
Top point-scorer(s)	Jim Sullivan 249
Top try-scorer(s)	Ernie Mills 50
← 1930–31 1932–33 →

The 1931–32 Rugby Football League season was the 37th season of rugby league football in northern England.

Season summary

St. Helens won their first championship when they defeated Huddersfield 9-5 in the play-off final.

Huddersfield had finished the regular season as league leaders.^[1]

The Challenge Cup Winners were Leeds who beat Swinton 11-8 in the final.

St. Helens won the Lancashire League, and Hunslet won the Yorkshire League. Salford beat Swinton 10–8 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Huddersfield beat Hunslet 4–2 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Huddersfield	38	30	1	7	636	368	61
2	St. Helens	38	29	2	7	699	279	60
3	Leeds	38	27	1	10	603	307	55
4	Hunslet	38	27	1	10	672	359	55
5	Salford	38	26	2	10	551	211	54
6	Swinton	38	26	1	11	523	253	53
7	Wigan	38	22	2	14	559	361	46
8	Warrington	38	22	2	14	495	412	46
9	York	38	22	2	14	455	382	46
10	Wakefield Trinity	38	21	3	14	545	388	45
11	Oldham	38	20	2	16	461	437	42
12	Rochdale Hornets	38	19	2	17	458	458	40
13	St Helens Recs	38	18	1	19	523	523	37
14	Hull Kingston Rovers	38	18	0	20	409	413	36
15	Dewsbury	38	17	2	19	421	467	36
16	Halifax	38	17	1	20	432	379	35
17	Batley	38	16	1	21	358	433	33
18	Broughton Rangers	38	16	1	21	351	382	33
19	Featherstone Rovers	38	15	2	21	374	415	32
20	Widnes	38	14	4	20	363	458	32
21	Hull	38	14	3	21	415	461	31
22	Castleford	38	14	1	23	402	515	29
23	Barrow	38	14	1	23	368	560	29
24	Leigh	38	13	2	23	353	487	28
25	Bramley	38	12	1	25	333	751	25
26	Keighley	38	10	0	28	228	630	20
27	Wigan Highfield	38	6	2	30	350	707	14
28	Bradford Northern	38	5	1	32	313	854	11

Championship Play-Off

Semi-finals			Championship Final

1	Huddersfield	12

4	Hunslet	9
			Huddersfield	5

			St Helens	9
2	St Helens	9

3	Leeds	0

Challenge Cup

Leeds beat Swinton 11-8 in the Challenge Cup Final played at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 9 April 1932 before a crowd of 29,000.

This was Leeds’ third Cup Final win in as many Cup Final appearances.^[2]

Sources

References

^ "1931-32 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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v t e St Helens R.F.C.
St Helens Rugby Football Club Est. 1873 in St Helens, England
The Club	History Records Honours Players International representatives Coaches Hall of Fame
Home grounds	City Ground Knowsley Road (1890–2010) Halton Stadium (2011) Totally Wicked Stadium (2012–present)
League	Super League
World Club Challenge (3)	2001 2007 2007
Championships (17)	1931–32 1952–53 1958–59 1965–66 1969–70 1970–71 1974–75 1996 1999 2000 2002 2006 2014 2019 2020 2021 2022
Challenge Cup (13)	1955–56 1960–61 1965–66 1971–72 1975–76 1996 1997 2001 2004 2006 2007 2008 2021
League Leaders Shield (9)	2002 2005 2006 2007 2008 2014 2018 2019 2022
Other honours	4—time Premiership Champions 1—time Western Division Champions 1—time Regal Trophy Champions 2—time BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Champions 11—time Lancashire County Cup Champions 11—time Lancashire League Champions 1—time Charity Shield Champions BBC Sports Team of the Year Award (2006)
Seasons	1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Culture	NRFU Founder Super League Founding Member Rivalry with Wigan
Affiliation	Rugby Football League (1895) St Helens Ladies

v t e St Helens RLFC squad – 1931–32 Championship Final winners
1 George Lewis 2 Roy Hardgrave 3 Billy Mercer 4 Tom Winnard 5 Bob Jones 6 Jack Garvey 7 Harry Frodsham 8 Bob Atkin 9 Dave Cotton 10 Ebor Hill 11 Jack Arkwright 12 Ben Halfpenny 13 Walter Groves