1941 NSWRFL season

Rugby league competition March 2024 1941 New South Wales Rugby Football League 125px 8 16x16px St. George 1st 16x16px Eastern Suburbs 10th 59 1933 16x16px Neville Smith (84) 16x16px Percy Dermond (13)16x16px Sel Lisle (13) North Sydney 5th 1940 NSWRFL season 1940 1942 NSWRFL season 1942 The 1941 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the thirty-fourth season of Sydney’s top-level rugby league competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season, which lasted from April until August, culminating in Eastern Suburbs’ loss to St. George in the grand final.Premiership Roll of Honour https://web.archive.org/web/20070428143335/http://rl1908.com/clubcomps/Honours.htm 2007-04-28 at rl1908.com Teams Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908, at Balmain Town Hall Canterbury-Bankstown Eastern Suburbs, formed on January 24, 1908, at Paddington Town Hall Newtown, formed on January 14, 1908 North Sydney, formed on February 7, 1908 South Sydney, formed on January 17, 1908, at Redfern Town Hall St. George, formed on November 8, 1920, at Kogarah School of Arts Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908 Balmain100px|center 34th seasonGround: Leichhardt Oval Coach: Bill KellyCaptain: Sid GoodwinCanterbury-Bankstown100px|center 7th seasonGround: Belmore Sports Ground Captain-coach: Ron Bailey Eastern Suburbs100px|center 34th seasonGround: Sydney Sports Ground Captain-coach: Ray StehrNewtown100px|center 34th seasonGround: Henson Park Captain-Coach: Percy WilliamsNorth Sydney100px|center 34th seasonGround: North Sydney Oval Coach: Arthur HallowayCaptain: Rex Harrison South Sydney100px|center 34th seasonGround: Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Jim TaitCaptain: Bob BanhamSt. George100px|center 21st seasonGround; Hurstville Oval Captain-coach: Neville SmithWestern Suburbs100px|center 34th seasonGround: Pratten Park Captain-Coach: Les Mead Ladder 230px|thumb|right|The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1941 premiership across Sydney. TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts116x16px Eastern Suburbs14905217160+5718216x16px Balmain14905243205+3818316x16px Canterbury14905205182+2318416x16px St. George14815307248+5917516x16px Newtown14626219242-2314616x16px Western Suburbs14608247226+2112716x16px South Sydney144010193277-848816x16px North Sydney143110171262-917 As three clubs were equal on points at the end of the home-and-away season, no club had the right of challenge in the finals. Finals Eastern Suburbs and St. George won their respective semi finals, allowing them to meet in the final. HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and TimeVenueRefereeCrowd Semifinals 23x23px Eastern Suburbs24–22 23x23px Canterbury-Bankstown16 August 1941Sydney Cricket GroundTom McMahon21,000 23x23px Balmain8–32 23x23px St. George23 August 1941Sydney Cricket GroundTom McMahon26,790 Final 23x23px Eastern Suburbs14–31 23x23px St. George30 August 1941Sydney Cricket GroundTom McMahon39,957 North Sam 1941: The Saints surprised them then, too The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 1 Fairfax 25 September 1992 http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=news920925_0065_6341 13 February 2011 Premiership final Eastern SuburbsPositionSt. George 13. Doug Bartlett FB 13. Jack Wedgwood 44. Percy Dermond WG 9. Owen Campbell 10. Dick Dunn CE 8. Gordon Hart 14. Dave Brown CE49. Jack Gilbert21. Brian Walsh WG 12. Noel Jones 8. Fred MayFE 20. Roy Hasson 7. Sel Lisle HB 7. Albert McAndrew 3. Jack Arnold PR 3. Charlie Montgomery 2. Noel Hollingdale HK Herb Gilbert Jnr Ray Stehr (Ca./Co.) PR 2. Lindsay Spencer 30. Don Gulliver SR 5. Neville Smith (Ca./Co.) 5. Sid Pearce SR 6. Len Kelly (v.capt) 27. Wal Bamford LK 23. Bill Tyquin Reserve 47. Bill Collier Reserve 58. Jim Hale In a tough encounter the Dragons won their first ever premiership in their twenty-first season in the competition. St. George captain-coach Neville Smith was knocked out after a heavy tackle early in the match. Smith recovered and scored 13 points through one try and five goals. Along with Smith, St. George centre Gordon Hart also gave a sparkling display of free-running rugby league. Recently enlisted in the AIF, Hart had been given permission to leave barracks to participate in the finals.‘Just one member of historic Saints side present and accounted for’ In another incident Easts’ prop Jack Arnold and Saints’ lock Bill Tyquin were sent off after an almighty punch up. Tyquin, a Queensland representative who would later captain Australia, played only the 1941 war-time season in Sydney while he was stationed there on duty with the AIF. It was to prove to be the final match in the record-setting career of Easts’ Dave Brown who at twenty-nine years of age announced his retirement at game’s end. St. George 31 (Tries: Campbell 2, Hanson 2, Smith, Kelly, Hart. Goals: Smith 5) defeated Eastern Suburbs 14 (Tries: Dermond 2, Brown, Bamford. Goals: Brown 1) thumb|left|250px|St. George's 1941 Premiership-winning team. Player statistics The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 14. Top 5 point scorers PointsPlayerTriesGoalsField Goals68Canterbury Lin Johnson034062Western Suburbs N. Parkinson622058St. George Ray Pratt029057St. George Neville Smith718054South Sydney Fred Felsch2240 Top 5 try scorers TriesPlayer13Eastern Suburbs Sel Lisle12Balmain Arthur Patton11Newtown William Ryan10Balmain Sid Goodwin10St. George Jack Lindwall10Newtown Bruce Ryan10Western Suburbs Bruce Brown Top 5 goal scorers GoalsPlayer34Canterbury Lin Johnson29St. George Ray Pratt26Newtown Percy Williams24South Sydney Fred Felsch22Western Suburbs N. Parkinson References External links Rugby League Tables - Notes AFL Tables Rugby League Tables - Season 1941 AFL Tables Premiership History and Statistics RL1908 Results: 1941-50 at rabbitohs.com.au 1941 Final at nrlstats.com 1941 Final at Dragons History site Nswrfl season Category:New South Wales Rugby League premiership