1923–24 NRFL season | |
League: | Championship |
No Of Teams: | 27 |
Season Champs: | Batley (1st title) |
Season Champ Name: | Champions |
League Leaders: | Wigan |
League Leaders Name: | League Leaders |
Second Place: | Wigan |
Top Scorer: | Jim Sullivan (Wigan) (319) |
Top Try Scorer: | Johnny Ring (Wigan) (49) |
Prevseason Link: | 1922–23 Northern Rugby Football League season |
Prevseason Year: | 1922–23 |
Nextseason Link: | 1924–25 Northern Rugby Football League season |
Nextseason Year: | 1924–25 |
The 1923–24 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 29th season of rugby league football.
Batley won their first, and to date only, Championship when they defeated Wigan 13–7 in the play-off Championship Final.
Wigan had ended the regular season as the league leaders and won the Challenge Cup by defeating Oldham 21–4 in the final.[1]
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Batley won the Yorkshire League. St Helens Recs beat Swinton 17–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull F.C. beat Huddersfield 10–4 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.
width=20 abbr="Position" | width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=20 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr=”Win Percentage” | Pct | |
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1 | Wigan | 38 | 31 | 0 | 7 | 824 | 228 | 62 | 81.57 | ||||||||||
2 | Batley | 36 | 24 | 3 | 9 | 432 | 287 | 51 | 70.83 | ||||||||||
3 | Oldham | 36 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 579 | 296 | 48 | 66.66 | ||||||||||
4 | Leigh | 34 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 407 | 250 | 43 | 63.23 | ||||||||||
5 | Huddersfield | 36 | 21 | 1 | 14 | 481 | 352 | 43 | 59.72 | ||||||||||
6 | St Helens Recs | 32 | 19 | 0 | 13 | 363 | 255 | 38 | 59.37 | ||||||||||
7 | Swinton | 34 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 346 | 312 | 40 | 58.82 | ||||||||||
8 | Rochdale Hornets | 36 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 318 | 330 | 42 | 58.33 | ||||||||||
9 | York | 36 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 323 | 258 | 41 | 56.94 | ||||||||||
10 | Hunslet | 36 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 328 | 332 | 41 | 56.94 | ||||||||||
11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 36 | 19 | 2 | 15 | 408 | 377 | 40 | 55.55 | ||||||||||
12 | Leeds | 38 | 20 | 0 | 18 | 448 | 350 | 40 | 52.63 | ||||||||||
13 | Halifax | 38 | 20 | 0 | 18 | 360 | 357 | 40 | 52.63 | ||||||||||
14 | Widnes | 34 | 16 | 3 | 15 | 275 | 245 | 35 | 51.47 | ||||||||||
15 | Broughton Rangers | 34 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 286 | 251 | 34 | 50 | ||||||||||
16 | St. Helens | 34 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 332 | 522 | 32 | 47.05 | ||||||||||
17 | Hull | 38 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 439 | 447 | 35 | 46.05 | ||||||||||
18 | Dewsbury | 36 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 279 | 289 | 33 | 45.83 | ||||||||||
19 | Wakefield Trinity | 36 | 15 | 2 | 19 | 313 | 358 | 32 | 44.44 | ||||||||||
20 | Warrington | 36 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 341 | 395 | 32 | 44.44 | ||||||||||
21 | Barrow | 36 | 15 | 1 | 20 | 366 | 372 | 31 | 43.05 | ||||||||||
22 | Keighley | 36 | 14 | 1 | 21 | 291 | 427 | 29 | 40.27 | ||||||||||
23 | Featherstone Rovers | 36 | 12 | 3 | 21 | 348 | 545 | 27 | 37.5 | ||||||||||
24 | Wigan Highfield | 36 | 12 | 0 | 24 | 324 | 428 | 24 | 33.33 | ||||||||||
25 | Salford | 34 | 8 | 1 | 25 | 175 | 466 | 17 | 25 | ||||||||||
26 | Bradford Northern | 34 | 8 | 0 | 26 | 190 | 524 | 16 | 23.52 | ||||||||||
27 | Bramley | 34 | 7 | 0 | 27 | 228 | 528 | 14 | 20.58 | ||||||||||
See main article: 1923–24 Challenge Cup. Wigan beat Oldham 21–4 in the final played at Rochdale before a crowd of 41,381.
This was Wigan's first Challenge Cup Final Win in their second appearance in a Final. [2]