1917–18 Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season

none 1917–18 Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season Northern Rugby League Wartime Emergency League 1917–18 Season Barrow Champions Runner-up Dewsbury 1916–17 Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season 1916–17 1918–19 Northern Rugby Football Union season 1918–19The 1917–18 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the third season of Rugby league's Wartime Emergency League football. Each club played a differing number of fixtures, depending upon the closeness of neighbours, ease of travel etc., with Rochdale Hornets playing (and losing) only 7 games and St. Helens 18 while Wigan played 35 and several other clubs 31. Season summary The war was starting its fourth year and the Rugby League again continued with the Wartime Emergency League set up. This arrangement, as in other sports, meant that the sport could continue, which in turn would boost the public’s moral. The fixtures were usually quite local, thus cutting down on travelling time and costs, whilst not wasting precious war resources. Due to the increasing difficulty of raising a full team of 13 players, the Northern Union gave approval for clubs to field 11 or 12 players in their fixtures, on the condition that both clubs agreed to it.Saxton Irvin History of Rugby League: No.23 1917–18 League Publications 1 Several clubs did not participate during this season :- Huddersfield Oldham Wakefield Trinity withdrew again York withdrew Keighley again did not take part and in fact did not re-enter the league until the first peacetime League in 1919-20. No clubs re-joined the League and no new clubs joined the league for this season. Barrow (90.91%) finished the regular season top of the league (40 points) although only playing 22 games, with Dewsbury (87.10%) this time in second place (with 54 points from 31 games).. Barrow took the title for the first time in their history.http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=337 1914–15 Season summary 2009-08-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20090826215628/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=337 2009-08-26 live There were no other trophies to play for during this season. Championship TeamPWDLPFPAdiffPts%Noteref1Barrow222002425593664090.912Dewsbury3127044801493315487.103Leeds3121374792142654572.584Hull241707318261573470.835Broughton Rangers2919373451302154170.696Leigh31192103431062374064.527Halifax2616010233181523261.548St Helens Recs29163102701321383560.349Wigan35210143312101214260.0010Warrington3116411236210263658.0611Widnes20947189146432255.0012Swinton2211110156208-522352.2713Batley2310112165191-262145.6514Bradford Northern2610214156260-1042242.3115Hunslet3011118311314-32338.3316Bramley256217186262-761428.0017St. Helens18421294261-1671027.7818Brighouse Rangers 20421475302-2271025.0019Hull Kingston Rovers251123125501-37636.0020Salford28112654499-44535.3621Runcorn19101851277-22625.2622Rochdale Hornets70077156-14900 Challenge Cup The Challenge Cup Competition was suspended for the duration of the war. The majority of the trophies, such as the County Leagues and County Cups were also suspended for the duration of the First World War. See also British rugby league system 1915–16 Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season 1916–17 Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season 1918–1919 (January) Northern Rugby Football Union Wartime Emergency League season 1919 (Feb-May) Northern Rugby Football Union Victory season The Great Schism – Rugby League View The Great Schism – Rugby Union View List of defunct rugby league clubs References External links 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com https://web.archive.org/web/20140202123900/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=319 2014-02-02 Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897 Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97 Saints Heritage Society Warrington History Wigan Archives - Cherry and white https://web.archive.org/web/20110824152248/http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php 2011-08-24 Category:1917 in English rugby league Category:1918 in English rugby league Category:Northern Rugby Football Union seasons