1929–30 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1929–30 Rugby Football League season was the 35th season of rugby league football.

1929–30 Northern Rugby Football League season
League	Northern Rugby Football League
Teams	28
Champions	Huddersfield
League Leaders	St. Helens
Top point-scorer(s)	Joe Thompson 243
Top try-scorer(s)	Alf Ellaby 39

Season summary

Huddersfield won their fifth Championship, and their second in successive years, when they defeated Leeds 10–0 in the play–off final replay following a 2–2 draw.

St. Helens had finished the regular season as league leaders.

The Challenge Cup Winners were Widnes after beating St. Helens 10–3 in the final.[1]

St. Helens won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Warrington beat Salford 15–2 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull Kingston Rovers beat Hunslet 13–7 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	St. Helens	40	27	1	12	549	295	55	68.75
2	Huddersfield	38	25	2	11	510	317	52	68.42
3	Salford	36	23	3	10	397	214	49	68.05
4	Leeds	40	25	2	13	672	302	52	65.00
5	Dewsbury	38	23	3	12	415	282	49	64.47
6	Hull Kingston Rovers	38	22	4	12	396	290	48	63.15
7	Wigan	38	23	1	14	590	303	47	61.84
8	Warrington	36	21	1	14	483	389	43	59.72
9	Hunslet	38	21	3	14	535	358	45	59.21
10	Oldham	38	20	4	14	393	306	44	57.89
11	Halifax	40	21	1	18	384	348	43	53.75
12	Hull	38	19	2	17	417	399	40	52.63
13	St Helens Recs	36	17	3	16	355	414	37	51.38
14	Swinton	36	17	2	17	332	220	36	50.00
15	Widnes	32	15	2	15	309	266	32	50.00
16	Wigan Highfield	32	16	0	16	257	266	32	50.00
17	Wakefield Trinity	40	19	1	20	399	428	39	48.75
18	Leigh	32	15	0	17	309	296	30	46.87
19	York	36	16	1	19	277	328	33	45.83
20	Keighley	36	14	2	20	244	427	30	41.66
21	Broughton Rangers	34	14	0	20	271	437	28	41.17
22	Rochdale Hornets	34	13	2	19	258	442	28	41.17
23	Featherstone Rovers	36	12	3	21	255	398	27	37.50
24	Bramley	36	10	5	21	199	399	25	34.72
25	Barrow	32	10	2	20	352	388	22	34.37
26	Castleford	36	10	2	24	230	535	22	30.55
27	Batley	36	7	2	27	221	543	16	22.22
28	Bradford Northern	38	7	2	29	299	718	16	21.05

Championship Play-Off

	Semi-finals					Championship Final
	1	St Helens	6
	4	Leeds	10
						Leeds		2-0
						Huddersfield		2-10
	2	Huddersfield	15
	3	Salford	10

Challenge Cup

Widnes beat St Helens 10–3 in the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley played before a crowd of 36,544.

This was Widnes' first Cup Final appearance and thus their first Cup Final win.[2]

References

1. "1929-30 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
2. "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

Sources

• 1929–30 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
• The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website