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==Championship play- |
==Championship play-offs== |
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Championship play-Off: |
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Qualifying game: |
Qualifying game: |
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*[[Bradford Bulls|Bradford Northern]] 16 beat [[Huddersfield Giants|Huddersfield]] 13 |
*1 May 1943: [[Bradford Bulls|Bradford Northern]] 16 beat [[Huddersfield Giants|Huddersfield]] 13 at [[Odsal Stadium]], Bradford.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19430503/095/0004 |title=Results at a Glance |newspaper=[[Liverpool Daily Post]] |page=4 |date=3 May 1943 |issue=27,387 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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Semi-finals: |
Semi-finals: |
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*8 My 1943: Bradford Northern 8 beat Dewsbury 3 at Odsal.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19430511/097/0004 |title=Rugby League Protest |newspaper=[[Liverpool Daily Post]] |page=4 |date=11 May 1943 |issue=27,394 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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*[[Bradford Bulls|Bradford Northern]] 8 beat [[Dewsbury Rams|Dewsbury]] 3 (Odsal) |
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**After the game Dewsbury submitted a protest to the Rugby Football League and Bradford Northern were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19430512/056/0004 |title=Dewsbury for R.L. Final |newspaper=[[Hull Daily Mail]] |page=4 |date=12 May 1943 |issue=17,943 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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**Bradford Northern were disqualified for fielding an inelligible player) |
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*[[Wigan Warriors|Wigan]] 3 lost to [[Halifax R.L.F.C.|Halifax]] 13 |
*[[Wigan Warriors|Wigan]] 3 lost to [[Halifax R.L.F.C.|Halifax]] 13 at [[Central Park (Wigan)|Central Park]], Wigan.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19430510/092/0004 |title=Rugby League |newspaper=[[Liverpool Daily Post]] |page=4 |date=10 May 1943 |issue=27,393 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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Final (two legs): |
Final (two legs): |
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*15 May 1943: Dewsbury 11 beat Halifax 3 at [[Crown Flatt#History|Crown Flatt]], Dewsbury.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000687/19430517/181/0005 |title=Dewsbury's Lead in Championship |newspaper=[[Yorkshire Post]] |page=5 |date=17 May 1943 |issue=29,877 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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*Dewsbury 11 beat Halifax 3 ([[Crown Flatt#History|Crown Flatt]]) |
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*22 May 1943: Halifax 13 lost to Dewsbury 22 at [[Thrum Hall]], Halifax in front of a crowd of 9,700.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19430524/144/0005 |title=Championship for Dewsbury |newspaper=[[Yorkshire Post]] |page=5 |date=24 May 1943 |issue=29,883 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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*Halifax 13 lost to Dewsbury 22 ([[Thrum Hall]]) |
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**[[Dewsbury Rams|Dewsbury]] won 33–16 on aggregate but at a meeting of the RFL committee in July the championship was declared null and void. The committee heard a complaint submitted by Bradford Northern that in the semi-final between them and Dewsbury, Dewsbury had also fielded an ineligible player. The complaint was upheld, the championship was voided, Dewsbury's title win was removed from the list of Championship wins and the club were fined £100.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19430708/011/0001 |title=Rugby League Title: Championship Declared Void |newspaper=[[Hull Daily Mail]] |page=1 |date=8 July 1943 |issue=17,992 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> |
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**[[Dewsbury Rams|Dewsbury]] won 33–16 on aggregate but the Championship was declared null and void because Dewsbury fielded an ineligible player. |
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==Challenge Cup== |
==Challenge Cup== |
Revision as of 18:33, 9 January 2018
1942–43 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season | |
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League | Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season |
1942–43 Season | |
Champions | Wigan |
Runner-up | Dewsbury |
The 1942–43 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the fourth season of the rugby league’s Wartime Emergency Leagues necessitated by the Second World War.
As in the previous (third) Wartime season, the clubs each played a different number of games and several clubs dropped out. In fact for this season only 14 of the original clubs remained (and still only Oldham, St Helens and Wigan from west of the Pennines).
The League remained as one single amalgamated Championship.
Season summary
The 1942–43 season began on Saturday 5 September 1942. As in the previous season, there are still only the three Lancashire clubs who have not had to close down and withdraw from the League, the Northern Rugby League continued with a single (now) 14 club single Competition. As the clubs are still playing different number of marches, the league positions and the title would be decided on a percentage basis.
At the completion of the regular season Wigan were on top of the league with 26 points from 16 games and a percentage success of 81.25% and Dewsbury were a close second (25 points from 16 games 78.13%). Although Bradford Northern finished with most points (27 points from 19 games) their percentage success was only 71.05%, and consequently they finished third. St Helens finished 14th out of the 14 clubs with only 2 wins from 15 and 4 points. Dewsbury went on to defeat Halifax 33–16 on aggregate in the play-off final.[1] and win the Championship (for the second consecutive season), however the Championship was declared null and void as the Dewsbury had fielded an ineligible player in the Championship Final.
The Wartime Emergency Leagues did not count as an official league championship.[citation needed]
In the Rugby league Challenge Cup Final, Dewsbury beat Leeds 16–15 on aggregate over two legs in front of an aggregate crowd of 26,470.
With the Lancashire Cup suspended the duration of the war, Wigan competed in the Yorkshire Cup. The cup was won by Dewsbury who beat Huddersfield 7–2 on aggregate before an aggregate crowd of 17,252 in the two low scoring legs of the final
Change in participation
Previous withdrawals
The following clubs had withdrawn from the League, before this 1942–43 seasons completion began :
- St Helens Recs – who folded before the war started.
- Barrow – withdrew after the end of the first (1939–40) season finished and did not rejoin until the 1943–44 season.
- Hull Kingston Rovers – who withdrew after the end of the first (1939–40) season finished and did not rejoin until the 1945–46 season.
- Rochdale Hornets – As Hull Kingston Rovers.
- Widnes – As Hull Kingston Rovers.
- Broughton Rangers – withdrew after the end of the second 1940–41 season finished and did not rejoin until the 1945–46 season.
- Liverpool Stanley – As Broughton Rangers. <
- Salford – As Broughton Rangers. In November 1942, manager Lance Todd was killed in a car crash.
- Swinton – As Broughton Rangers.
- Warrington – As Broughton Rangers.
- Leigh - During the Second World War, the club was forced to leave its ground as the adjacent cable factory extended onto the land.
The townsfolk of Leigh, acting on chairman James Hilton's inspiration, cleared some fields on the edge of the town, and built a new stadium, including moving and rebuilding the old grandstand from the original ground. In 1941–42, Leigh quit the wartime Lancashire league and would not return to the league until 1946–47 when they played as a temporary measure at the Athletic Ground, Holden Road before moving to Kirkhall Lane (which was later officially renamed Hilton Park after James Hilton).
Withdrawals since the 1941–42 season
- Bramley – did not rejoin until the 1945–46 season.
- Castleford – re-joined for the 1944–45 season.
- Hunslet – re-joined for the 1943–44 season.
Championship
Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | diff | % | |
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1 | Wigan | 16 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 301 | 134 | 167 | 81.25 |
2 | Dewsbury | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 270 | 113 | 157 | 78.12 |
3 | Bradford Northern | 21 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 312 | 183 | 129 | 73.80 |
4 | Leeds | 17 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 376 | 145 | 231 | 67.64 |
5 | Halifax | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 311 | 154 | 157 | 65.00 |
6 | Huddersfield | 19 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 223 | 206 | 17 | 63.15 |
7 | Wakefield Trinity | 19 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 267 | 192 | 75 | 60.52 |
8 | Featherstone Rovers | 19 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 179 | 168 | 11 | 55.26 |
9 | Keighley | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 151 | 306 | -155 | 32.35 |
10 | Batley | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 146 | 279 | -135 | 28.57 |
11 | Hull | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 125 | 295 | -170 | 26.66 |
12 | Oldham | 19 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 143 | 303 | -160 | 21.05 |
13 | York | 17 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 92 | 311 | -219 | 20.58 |
14 | St. Helens | 15 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 108 | 273 | -165 | 13.33 |
Source:[2] |
Championship play-offs
Qualifying game:
- 1 May 1943: Bradford Northern 16 beat Huddersfield 13 at Odsal Stadium, Bradford.[3]
Semi-finals:
- 8 My 1943: Bradford Northern 8 beat Dewsbury 3 at Odsal.[4]
- After the game Dewsbury submitted a protest to the Rugby Football League and Bradford Northern were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.[5]
- Wigan 3 lost to Halifax 13 at Central Park, Wigan.[6]
Final (two legs):
- 15 May 1943: Dewsbury 11 beat Halifax 3 at Crown Flatt, Dewsbury.[7]
- 22 May 1943: Halifax 13 lost to Dewsbury 22 at Thrum Hall, Halifax in front of a crowd of 9,700.[8]
- Dewsbury won 33–16 on aggregate but at a meeting of the RFL committee in July the championship was declared null and void. The committee heard a complaint submitted by Bradford Northern that in the semi-final between them and Dewsbury, Dewsbury had also fielded an ineligible player. The complaint was upheld, the championship was voided, Dewsbury's title win was removed from the list of Championship wins and the club were fined £100.[9]
Challenge Cup
Barrow who had not entered the League programme, took part in this competition. In the final Dewsbury beat Leeds 16–15 on aggregate over two legs in front of an aggregate crowd of 26,470.
References
- ^ "Wigan Warriors Rugby League Fan Site". Retrieved 5 November 2011.
- ^ "Rugby League". Hull Daily Mail. No. 17, 395. 3 May 1943. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Results at a Glance". Liverpool Daily Post. No. 27, 387. 3 May 1943. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Rugby League Protest". Liverpool Daily Post. No. 27, 394. 11 May 1943. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Dewsbury for R.L. Final". Hull Daily Mail. No. 17, 943. 12 May 1943. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Rugby League". Liverpool Daily Post. No. 27, 393. 10 May 1943. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Dewsbury's Lead in Championship". Yorkshire Post. No. 29, 877. 17 May 1943. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Championship for Dewsbury". Yorkshire Post. No. 29, 883. 24 May 1943. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Rugby League Title: Championship Declared Void". Hull Daily Mail. No. 17, 992. 8 July 1943. p. 1 – via British Newspaper Archive.