1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season

League

Northern Rugby League

1905–06 Season

Champions

Leigh

Top point-scorer(s)

Jim Leytham 160

Top try-scorer(s)

Jim Leytham 44

< 1904–05	Seasons	1906–07 >

The 1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 11th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Leigh won the Championship for the first time this season and Bradford their first Challenge Cup.

The two divisions were combined into one competition, with Lancaster dropping out to reduce it to 31 teams. Clubs from the same county all played each other, and arranged inter-county matches as and when they could. Because not all clubs played the same number of matches positions were decided on percentages. ^[1]

Featherstone Rovers, who were an amateur team at this time knocked a professional side out of the Challenge Cup, when they beat Widnes 23-2 in the second round.^[2]

There was no county league competition this season. The inaugural Rugby league county cups took place this season, and Wigan beat Leigh 0–0 (replay 8–0) to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hunslet beat Halifax 13–3 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Leigh	30	23	2	5	245	130	48	80.00
2	Hunslet	32	25	0	7	370	148	50	78.12
3	Leeds	34	25	2	7	377	123	52	76.47
4	Oldham	40	28	2	10	446	125	58	72.50
5	Keighley	28	19	1	8	255	164	39	69.64
6	Wigan	34	22	1	11	441	167	45	66.17
7	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	22	3	11	246	218	47	65.27
8	Broughton Rangers	34	21	1	12	400	222	43	63.23
9	Halifax	38	20	8	10	261	232	48	63.15
10	Runcorn	30	17	3	10	264	136	37	61.66
11	Huddersfield	30	17	2	11	224	174	36	60.00
12	Bradford	34	19	2	13	371	199	40	58.82
13	Swinton	32	17	3	12	203	168	37	57.81
14	St Helens	30	16	1	13	244	212	33	55.00
15	Warrington	38	19	3	16	270	184	41	53.94
16	Wakefield Trinity	32	13	4	15	188	262	30	46.87
17	Hull	36	16	1	19	304	220	33	45.83
18	Salford	34	14	3	17	272	270	31	45.58
19	Pontefract	28	11	1	16	211	196	23	41.07
20	Batley	34	11	5	18	173	215	27	39.70
21	Widnes	28	10	2	16	129	242	22	39.28
22	Dewsbury	36	13	2	21	162	252	28	38.88
23	Bramley	26	9	2	15	126	246	20	38.46
24	York	34	11	2	21	170	249	24	35.29
25	Barrow	32	9	4	19	138	324	22	34.37
26	Normanton	24	4	2	18	50	280	10	20.83
27	Millom	20	3	2	15	77	328	8	20.00
28	Castleford	20	3	2	15	45	325	8	20.00
29	Rochdale Hornets	32	3	6	23	105	327	12	18.75
30	Morecambe	26	2	4	20	99	282	8	15.38
31	Brighouse Rangers	26	3	2	21	87	333	8	15.38

Challenge Cup

Bradford beat Salford 5-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 15,834 to win the Cup in their first appearance in the final.^[3]

Sources

References

↑ "1905-06 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 205. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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