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1912 NSWRFL season

Rugby league competition

Field	Value
title	1912 NSWRFL season
league	New South Wales Rugby Football League
duration	4 May to 24 August
no_of_teams	8
matches	56
points	1262
season_champs	[[File:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs
season_champs_count	2nd
season_champ_name	Premiers
league_leaders	[[File:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs
league_leaders_count	1st
league_leaders_name	Minor Premiers
second_place	[[File:Glebe colours.svg	16x16px]] Glebe
wooden_spoon	[[File:Western Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Western Suburbs
wooden_spoon_count	3rd
top_scorer	[[File:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Dally Messenger (80)
top try scorer	[[File:Glebe colours.svg	16x16px]] Roy Algie (12)
season2	Second Grade
no_of_teams2	17
season_champs2	[[File:Glebe colours.svg	16x16px]] Glebe
season_champ_name2	Premiers
second_place2	Redfern
season3	Third Grade
no_of_teams3	20 (1 disqualified)
season_champs3	[[File:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] South Sydney
season_champ_name3	Premiers
second_place3	South Sydney Federals
prevseason_link	1911 NSWRFL season
prevseason_year	1911
nextseason_link	1913 NSWRFL season
nextseason_year	1913

The 1912 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the fifth season of Sydney’s rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season for the premiership and the Royal Agricultural Society Challenge Shield.

Season summary

From 1912 to 1925, the team finishing on top of the ladder after the home-and-away rounds was automatically deemed premiers unless two clubs were on equal points at this point in which case a final was held. This move by the New South Wales Rugby League may well have been in response to Eastern Suburbs’ victory in the season before, where they overcame minor premiers Glebe in two successive finals to claim the premiership.

With four rounds remaining in the 1912 season, Eastern Suburbs and Glebe were clearly ahead of the rest of the teams and it looked unlikely that they would be caught. The two clubs were matched up against each other in Round 11 at the Sydney Sports Ground in what would ultimately decide the fate of the premiership, with Glebe just two points behind Eastern Suburbs on the ladder. In front of 25,000 people, the two clubs played out a closely fought match in muddy conditions. Dally Messenger was able to break a 4–4 deadlock late in the match by kicking a field goal after a scrum win close to the sideline and win the game 6–4 for Eastern Suburbs.

With a four-point premiership lead and only three rounds to play, Eastern Suburbs, who had only lost one game before in the season to eventual third-placed Newtown, looked uncatchable. That turned out to be the case, with Eastern Suburbs winning their remaining three games to take away the premiership.

Also this season Pratten Park became the Western Suburbs club's homeground.

Teams

The teams remained unchanged from the previous season.

Annandale
Balmain, formed on 23 January 1908 at Balmain Town Hall
Eastern Suburbs, formed on 24 January 1908 at Paddington Town Hall
Glebe, formed on 9 January 1908
Newtown, formed on 14 January 1908
North Sydney, formed on February 7, 1908, at the North Sydney School of Arts in Mount Street
South Sydney, formed on 17 January 1908 at Redfern Town Hall
Western Suburbs, formed on 4 February 1908

[[File:Newtown Jersey 1910.png	100px	center]]Newtown
5th season
Ground: Erskineville Oval
Captain-Coach: Bill Noble	[[File:North Sydney Jersey 1909.png	100px	center]]North Sydney
5th season
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Coach:
Captain: Albert Broomham	[[File:South Sydney Jersey 1912.png	100px	center]]South Sydney
5th season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach:
Captain: Arthur Butler	[[File:Western Suburbs Jersey 1910.png	100px	center]]Western Suburbs
5th season
Ground: Pratten Park
Captain-Coach: Tedda Courtney

Ladder

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PA	PD	Pts
1	[[File:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs	14	13	1	230	86	+144
2	[[File:Glebe colours.svg	16x16px]] Glebe	14	11	3	199	83	+116
3	[[File:Newtown colours.svg	16x16px]] Newtown	14	9	5	176	132	+44
4	[[File:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] South Sydney	14	8	6	207	135	+72
5	[[File:Balmain colours.svg	16x16px]] Balmain	14	6	8	138	168	-30
6	[[File:North Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] North Sydney	14	6	8	124	197	-73
7	[[File:Annandale colours.svg	16x16px]] Annandale	14	2	12	86	134	-48
8	[[File:Western Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Western Suburbs	14	1	13	100	325	-225

Premiers

Eastern Suburbs won the premiership when they beat Norths at North Sydney Oval 15–10 on 17 August. The premiership squad was:

References

[http://www.rl1908.com/clubcomps/Honours.htm Premiership Roll of Honour] {{webarchive. link. (2011-05-14 at ''rl1908.com'')
(1991). "History of the NSW Rugby League Finals".

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