1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season

none 1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season Championship First Division: 18Second Division: 14 First Division Oldham (1st title) Champions Bradford F.C. ENG James Lomas (Salford) (146) James Dechan (Bradford F.C.) (31) Second Division Dewsbury Champions BirkenheadHolbeckSouth ShieldsLancaster Resigned from the League 1903–04 Northern Rugby Football Union season 1903–04 1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season 1905–06 The 1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the tenth season of rugby league football. Season summary Oldham won their first Championship whilst Warrington won the Challenge Cup. Holbeck and South Shields dropped out, reducing the competition to 15 teams.http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=327 1904-05 Season summary 2009-08-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20090826215626/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=327 2009-08-26 live Birkenhead resigned after 4 games, the results of which were struck out of the table. They lost all four games, conceding 93 points and scoring none. On 4 March 1905, a record 11 tries were scored by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers in the Northern Union Challenge Cup. In this same match the record for most points in a match, 53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) was recorded.Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996 Raymond Fletcher David Howes 1995 Headline Book Publishing London 0-7472-7817-2 191 There was no county league competition this season. At the end of the season, all First Division and Second Division clubs, except Lancaster, were elected to the new single top division, the NRFU Championship. Notable events At the start of this season, the Northern Union changed its rules to allow clubs to have full-time players paid by the clubs, thus making it fully professional.The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture Michael Higgins Clarissa Smith, John Storey 2010 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-68346-3 225 https://books.google.com/books?id=eVrkyS3K8kkC&pg=PA225 2010-03-02 Tables First Division main WDL OLD BRA BRR LEE WAR SAL WIG HUL HUN HFX LEI HKR SWI WAK BAT WID STH RUN 25 1 8 291 158 23 2 9 294 156 22 2 10 295 175 20 4 10 232 150 20 2 12 220 150 19 2 13 276 204 18 1 15 230 195 15 4 15 224 214 16 1 17 240 216 15 2 17 204 155 14 3 17 165 209 15 0 19 200 220 13 2 19 155 196 13 2 19 154 211 12 3 19 160 228 13 1 20 128 280 9 1 24 168 351 7 1 26 133 301 C oldham 16 Oldham bradford 16 Bradford Cronulla 16 Broughton Rangers leeds 16 Leeds warrington 16 Warrington salford city 16 Salford wigan 16 Wigan hull fc 16 Hull F.C. hunslet 16 Hunslet halifax 16 Halifax leigh 16 Leigh hull kr 16 Hull Kingston Rovers swinton 16 Swinton wakefield 16 Wakefield Trinity batley 16 Batley widnes 16 Widnes st helens 16 St. Helens runcorn 16 Runcorn 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored points yes 2 1 0 Q Second Division main WDL DEW BAR YRK KEI HUD ROC MIL PON CAS NOR BRI LAN MOR BRA PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO PRO REL PRO PRO 22 2 2 247 48 22 0 4 286 68 18 3 5 205 76 15 2 9 259 94 14 2 10 231 143 11 4 11 154 145 12 0 14 139 173 10 1 15 156 175 9 3 14 104 199 9 1 16 105 228 8 1 17 111 169 7 2 17 88 272 5 2 19 95 239 8 1 17 106 257 CP P P P P P P P P P P P P dewsbury 16 Dewsbury barrow 16 Barrow York RLFC 16 York keighley 16 Keighley huddersfield 16 Huddersfield rochdale 16 Rochdale Hornets queensland 16 Millom North Sydney 16 Pontefract castleford 16 Castleford North Sydney 16 Normanton dewsbury 16 Brighouse Rangers Hull kr 16 Morecambe crusaders 16 Bramley st George Illawarra 16 Lancaster 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored points yes 2 1 0 Q green1 Promotion to First Division red1 Resigned from league Challenge Cup 1905 Challenge Cup Warrington beat Hull Kingston Rovers 6–0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 19,638 to win the Cup at their third attempt in a final. References External links 1904-05 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com https://web.archive.org/web/20090826215626/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=327 2009-08-26 Category:1904 in English rugby league Category:1905 in English rugby league Category:Northern Rugby Football Union seasons