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1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season

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League
  
Division 1

Top try-scorer(s)
  
Evans 27

Top point-scorer(s)
  
Wharton Davies 136

Start date
  
1902

Champions
  
Halifax R.L.F.C., Keighley Cougars

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1903–04 Northern Rugby Football Union season

The 1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the eighth season of rugby league football.

Contents

Season summary

League Champions: Halifax

Challenge Cup Winners: Halifax (7-0 v Salford)

2nd Division Champions: Keighley

There was no county league competition this season.

Notable events

  • Four of the top five clubs from the 1901–02 Lancashire Senior Competition; Hull Kingston Rovers (although based in Yorkshire, and having played in the Yorkshire Senior Competition for the 1899–1900 and 1900–01 seasons, they had played the 1901–02 season in the Lancashire Senior Competition), St. Helens, Widnes, and Wigan joined the 14-clubs from the previous season's 1901–02 Northern Rugby League to make an 18-club Division 1, the exception was Barrow who despite finishing fourth in the 1901–02 Lancashire Senior Competition joined Division 2.
  • At the end of the season Manningham Rugby Club decided to switch to Association Football and became Bradford City A.F.C., whilst staying at Valley Parade.

    • Challenge Cup

    Halifax beat Salford 7-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 32,507

    References

    1902–03 Northern Rugby Football Union season Wikipedia
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