League Northern Rugby League League Leaders Oldham Top try-scorer(s) Jim Leytham 44 Champion Hunslet F.C. | Champions Hunslet Top point-scorer(s) Albert Goldthorpe 217 Start date 1907 | |
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The 1907–08 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 13th season of rugby league football.
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Season summary
League Champions were Hunslet who beat Oldham 12-2 in a replay after a 7-7 draw. It was the first time a team that did not finish top of the league won the Championship.
Challenge Cup Winners were Hunslet who defeated Hull 14-0.
Liverpool City were replaced by the two Welsh clubs, Merthyr Tydfil and Ebbw Vale, taking the competition to 27 clubs.
Bradford switched to Association Football and were replaced by Bradford Northern.
Oldham won the Lancashire League, and Hunslet won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat Broughton Rangers 16–9 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hunslet beat Halifax 17–0 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Hunslet won All Four Cups available to them; Challenge Cup, Rugby Football League Championship, Yorkshire league, and Yorkshire cup.
New Zealand toured England this season. On 28 December 1907, they defeated Salford 9-2 in front of 9,000 spectators.
Challenge Cup
Hunslet beat Hull 14-0 in the final to win their first Cup in their first final.
Hunslet Tries: Fred Smith, Fred Farrar
Hunslet Goals: Billy Eagers, (Albert, or Walter) Goldthorpe 3
Half-time: 7-0
Attendance: 18,000 (at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield)
Teams:
Hunslet: Herbert Place, Fred Farrar, Billy Eagers, Walter Goldthorpe, Billy Batten, Albert Goldthorpe, Fred Smith, Harry Wilson, Bill Brookes, Bill Jukes, John "Jack" Randall, John Higson, Tom Walsh
Hull FC: Harry Taylor, L. Parry, G. T. Cottrell, F. J. Cook, (E. or Ned) Rogers, Harry Wallace, Billie Anderson, Tom Herridge, J. Owen, W. J. Carroll, G. Kilburn, H. Fulton, William Holder