1930–31 Northern Rugby Football League season

1930–31 Northern Rugby Football League season
1930–31 Northern Rugby Football League season
League	Northern Rugby Football League
Teams	28
Champions	Swinton
League Leaders	Swinton
Top point-scorer(s)	Jim Sullivan 278
Top try-scorer(s)	Eric Harris 58
	← 1929–30 1931–32 →

The 1930–31 Rugby Football League season was the 36th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Swinton won their third Championship when they defeated Leeds 14-7 in the play-off final. They had also finished the regular season as league leaders.

The Challenge Cup Winners were Halifax who beat York 22-8.

The format of the competition was changed so that all clubs played the same number of matches, and percentages were done away with. ^[1]

Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. St Helens Recs beat Wigan 18–3 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Huddersfield 10–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Swinton	38	31	2	5	504	156	64
2	Leeds	38	29	1	8	695	258	59
3	Wigan	38	28	2	8	657	199	58
4	Oldham	38	27	4	7	464	178	58
5	Huddersfield	38	27	2	9	545	272	56
6	Halifax	38	25	3	10	405	283	53
7	St Helens	38	25	1	12	502	344	51
8	Hunslet	38	24	2	12	573	278	50
9	Salford	38	23	3	12	420	256	49
10	Warrington	38	23	2	13	447	291	48
11	York	38	23	1	14	441	361	47
12	St. Helens Recs	38	21	2	15	436	243	44
13	Hull Kingston Rovers	38	21	0	17	345	399	42
14	Wakefield Trinity	38	20	0	18	510	438	40
15	Wigan Highfield	38	17	3	18	398	435	37
16	Hull	38	17	2	19	398	428	36
17	Broughton Rangers	38	15	5	18	376	366	35
18	Dewsbury	38	14	2	22	418	406	30
19	Barrow	38	12	6	20	350	481	30
20	Castleford	38	15	0	23	351	539	30
21	Leigh	38	11	3	24	248	479	25
22	Widnes	38	11	2	25	245	450	24
23	Batley	38	11	1	26	245	505	23
24	Rochdale Hornets	38	10	2	26	330	557	22
25	Keighley	38	8	0	30	212	705	16
26	Featherstone Rovers	38	7	1	30	265	536	15
27	Bramley	38	5	3	30	251	636	13
28	Bradford Northern	38	4	1	33	227	809	9

Championship Play-Off

Semi-finals			Championship Final

1	Swinton	16

4	Oldham	3
			Swinton	14

			Leeds	7
2	Leeds	13

3	Wigan	0

Challenge Cup

Halifax beat York 22-8 in the final at Wembley before a crowd of 40,368.

This was Halifax’s third Challenge Cup final win in four Cup Final appearances.

To date this was the only Challenge Cup Final appearance by York. ^[2]

References

^ "1930-31 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-08-08. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Sources

[1] "1930-31 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-08-08. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[2] "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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