Champions Swinton Top point-scorer(s) Joe Thompson 233 Start date 1927 Number of teams 28 | League Leaders Swinton Top try-scorer(s) Alf Ellaby 37 Champion Swinton Lions | |
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The 1927–28 Rugby Football League season was the 33rd season of rugby league football. Swinton won All four cups.
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Season summary
Swinton won their second, and successive, Championship when they defeated Featherstone Rovers 11-0 in the play-off final. Swinton had also ended the regular season as the league leaders.
The Challenge Cup Winners were Swinton who beat Warrington 5-3 in the final.
Pontypridd resigned from the League after playing 8 games, and their record was expunged from the table. They won 1 and lost 7, scoring 46 and conceding 149. 1927-28.
Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. Swinton beat Wigan 5–2 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Dewsbury beat Hull 8–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Challenge Cup
Swinton beat Warrington 5-3 in the final played at Wigan in front of a crowd of 33,909.
This was Swinton’s third Challenge Cup Final win from four final appearances and completed a League and Cup double for the club.