1931–32 Northern Rugby Football League season

Rugby league season

1931–32 Northern Rugby Football League season

League| Championship
Duration| 38 Rounds
Teams| 28
Champions|  St. Helens (1st title)
League Leaders|  Huddersfield
Runners-up|  Huddersfield
Top point-scorer(s)|  Jim Sullivan ( Wigan) (249)
Top try-scorer(s)|  Ernie Mills ( Huddersfield) (50)

← 1930–31

1932–33 →

The 1931–32 Rugby Football League season was the 37th season of rugby league football in northern England.

## Season summary

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St. Helens won their first championship when they defeated Huddersfield 9-5 in the play-off final.

Huddersfield had finished the regular season as league leaders.[1]

The Challenge Cup Winners were Leeds who beat Swinton 11-8 in the final.

St. Helens won the Lancashire League, and Hunslet won the Yorkshire League. Salford beat Swinton 10–8 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Huddersfield beat Hunslet 4–2 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

## Championship

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

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1 | Huddersfield | 38 | 30 | 1 | 7 | 636 | 368 | 61
2 | St. Helens | 38 | 29 | 2 | 7 | 699 | 279 | 60
3 | Leeds | 38 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 603 | 307 | 55
4 | Hunslet | 38 | 27 | 1 | 10 | 672 | 359 | 55
5 | Salford | 38 | 26 | 2 | 10 | 551 | 211 | 54
6 | Swinton | 38 | 26 | 1 | 11 | 523 | 253 | 53
7 | Wigan | 38 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 559 | 361 | 46
8 | Warrington | 38 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 495 | 412 | 46
9 | York | 38 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 455 | 382 | 46
10 | Wakefield Trinity | 38 | 21 | 3 | 14 | 545 | 388 | 45
11 | Oldham | 38 | 20 | 2 | 16 | 461 | 437 | 42
12 | Rochdale Hornets | 38 | 19 | 2 | 17 | 458 | 458 | 40
13 | St Helens Recs | 38 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 523 | 523 | 37
14 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 38 | 18 | 0 | 20 | 409 | 413 | 36
15 | Dewsbury | 38 | 17 | 2 | 19 | 421 | 467 | 36
16 | Halifax | 38 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 432 | 379 | 35
17 | Batley | 38 | 16 | 1 | 21 | 358 | 433 | 33
18 | Broughton Rangers | 38 | 16 | 1 | 21 | 351 | 382 | 33
19 | Featherstone Rovers | 38 | 15 | 2 | 21 | 374 | 415 | 32
20 | Widnes | 38 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 363 | 458 | 32
21 | Hull | 38 | 14 | 3 | 21 | 415 | 461 | 31
22 | Castleford | 38 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 402 | 515 | 29
23 | Barrow | 38 | 14 | 1 | 23 | 368 | 560 | 29
24 | Leigh | 38 | 13 | 2 | 23 | 353 | 487 | 28
25 | Bramley | 38 | 12 | 1 | 25 | 333 | 751 | 25
26 | Keighley | 38 | 10 | 0 | 28 | 228 | 630 | 20
27 | Wigan Highfield | 38 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 350 | 707 | 14
28 | Bradford Northern | 38 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 313 | 854 | 11

## Championship play-off

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| Semi-finals | | | Championship final |

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| 1 | Huddersfield | 12 | |
| 4 | Hunslet | 9 |
| | Huddersfield | 5 |
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| | | St Helens | 9 |
| 2 | St Helens | 9 |

| 3 | Leeds | 0 |

## Challenge Cup

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Main article: 1931–32 Challenge Cup

Leeds beat Swinton 11-8 in the Challenge Cup Final played at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 9 April 1932 before a crowd of 29,000.

This was Leeds’ third Cup Final win in as many Cup Final appearances.[2]

## Sources

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* 1931-32 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
* The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

## References

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1. ^ "1931-32 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
2. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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St Helens RLFC squad – 1931–32 Championship Final winners

* 1 George Lewis
* 2 Roy Hardgrave
* 3 Billy Mercer
* 4 Tom Winnard
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* 6 Jack Garvey
* 7 Harry Frodsham

* 8 Bob Atkin
* 9 Dave Cotton
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