Champions Wigan Top point-scorer(s) Reg Farrar 213 Start date 1921 Number of teams 26 | League Leaders Oldham Top try-scorer(s) Reg Farrar 49 Champion Wigan Warriors | |
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The 1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 27th season of rugby league football.
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Season summary
Featherstone Rovers joined the competition this season.
In November, winger Harold Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 transfer when he moved from Hunslet to Leeds.
Oldham had ended the regular season as the league leaders.
Wigan won their second ever Championship this season when they defeated Oldham 13-2 in the play-off final.
The 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain also took place during the season, with many of the clubs playing games against the visiting Australasian team.
Oldham won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Warrington beat Oldham 7–5 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Dewsbury 11–3 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Challenge Cup
The final saw Rochdale Hornets's 10-9 victory over Hull in the 1922 Challenge Cup Final at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 6 May 1922, in front of a crowd of 32,596. This was Rochdale's first Challenge Cup Final win in their first, and as of 2016 their only, Challenge Cup Final appearance.
Rochdale Hornets: 10
Rochdale Hornets Tries: Tommy Fitton 2
Rochdale Hornets Goals: Dicky Paddon 2
Hull FC: 9
Hull FC Tries: Jimmy Kennedy, Billy Batten, Bob Taylor
Half-time: 6-7
Attendance: 34,827 (at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds)
Rochdale Hornets: Frank Prescott, Tommy Fitton, Fred Wild, Teddy McLoughlin, Joe Corsi, J. Eaton, J. Keynon, Thomas Harris, Jack Bennett, Dickie Paddon, Tommy Woods, Dai Edwards, Louis Corsi
Hull FC: J. Holdsworth, Billy Stone (c), Jimmy Kennedy, Billy Batten, Emlyn Gwynne, Eddie Caswell, W. J. Charles, Jack Beasty, George Oliver, J. E. Wyburn, Edgar Morgan, Bob Taylor, H. Garratt