1927–28 Northern Rugby Football League season

League| Championship
Teams| 28
Champions|  Swinton (2nd title)
League Leaders|  Swinton
Runners-up|  Featherstone Rovers
Top point-scorer(s)|  Joe Thompson ( Leeds) (233)
Top try-scorer(s)|  Alf Ellaby ( St Helens) (37)
Resigned from the League| Pontypridd

← 1926–27

1928–29 →

The 1927–28 Rugby Football League season was the 33rd season of rugby league football. Swinton won All four cups.[1]

## Season summary[edit]

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.[2]

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 F.C. 8–2 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

## Championship[edit]

| Team  | Pld  | W  | D  | L  | PF  | PA  | Pts  | Pct

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1 | Swinton | 36 | 27 | 3 | 6 | 439 | 189 | 57 | 79.10
2 | Leeds | 42 | 32 | 0 | 10 | 619 | 307 | 64 | 76.19
3 | Featherstone Rovers | 36 | 25 | 1 | 10 | 387 | 234 | 51 | 70.83
4 | Hunslet | 40 | 28 | 0 | 12 | 546 | 308 | 56 | 70.00
5 | St Helens Recs | 36 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 499 | 251 | 48 | 66.66
6 | Oldham | 36 | 23 | 1 | 12 | 422 | 261 | 47 | 65.27
7 | Wigan Highfield | 32 | 19 | 1 | 12 | 272 | 240 | 39 | 60.93
8 | Wigan | 40 | 24 | 0 | 16 | 601 | 345 | 48 | 60.00
9 | Leigh | 34 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 298 | 236 | 40 | 58.82
10 | Wakefield Trinity | 40 | 22 | 2 | 16 | 476 | 355 | 46 | 57.50
11 | St. Helens | 36 | 19 | 1 | 16 | 485 | 336 | 39 | 54.17
12 | Huddersfield | 40 | 21 | 1 | 18 | 475 | 341 | 43 | 53.75
13 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 38 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 342 | 333 | 39 | 51.31
14 | Halifax | 40 | 19 | 2 | 19 | 341 | 328 | 40 | 50.00
15 | Dewsbury | 38 | 17 | 3 | 18 | 334 | 329 | 37 | 48.68
16 | Bradford Northern | 32 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 204 | 333 | 28 | 43.75
17 | Warrington | 36 | 14 | 2 | 20 | 352 | 483 | 30 | 41.66
18 | Barrow | 34 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 249 | 337 | 27 | 39.70
19 | Batley | 38 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 264 | 466 | 30 | 39.47
20 | Hull | 38 | 12 | 6 | 20 | 312 | 347 | 30 | 39.47
21 | York | 36 | 13 | 1 | 22 | 233 | 350 | 27 | 37.50
22 | Keighley | 36 | 13 | 1 | 22 | 230 | 415 | 27 | 37.50
23 | Widnes | 32 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 196 | 418 | 22 | 34.37
24 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 11 | 1 | 22 | 192 | 448 | 23 | 33.82
25 | Castleford | 32 | 9 | 3 | 20 | 217 | 389 | 21 | 32.81
26 | Salford | 32 | 9 | 1 | 22 | 220 | 434 | 19 | 29.68
27 | Broughton Rangers | 32 | 8 | 0 | 24 | 295 | 450 | 16 | 25.00
28 | Bramley | 32 | 7 | 0 | 25 | 175 | 402 | 14 | 21.87

## Championship play-off[edit]

| Semi-finals | | | Championship final |

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| 1 | Swinton | 12 | |
| 4 | Hunslet | 2 |
| | Swinton | 11 |
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| | | Featherstone Rovers | 0 |
| 2 | Leeds | 12 |

| 3 | Featherstone Rovers | 15 |

## Challenge Cup[edit]

Main article: 1927–28 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.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The History Of Rugby League". Rugby League Information. napit.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
2. ^ "1927-28 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
3. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

## Sources[edit]

* 1927-28 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
* The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

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