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1914 NSWRFL season

Rugby league competition

Field	Value
title	1914 NSWRFL season
league	New South Wales Rugby Football League
duration	2 May to 22 August
no_of_teams	8
matches	56
points	1202
season_champs	[[Image:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] South Sydney
season_champs_count	3rd
season_champ_name	Premiers
league_leaders	[[Image:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] South Sydney
league_leaders_count	3rd
league_leaders_name	Minor Premiers
wooden_spoon	Annandale
wooden_spoon_count	1st
top_scorer	[[Image:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] Harold Horder (87)
top try scorer	[[Image:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] Harold Horder (19)
season2	Second Grade
no_of_teams2	14
season_champs2	[[Image:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] South Sydney
season_champ_name2	Premiers
second_place2	[[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs
season3	Third Grade
no_of_teams3	16
season_champs3	[[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs
season_champ_name3	Premiers
second_place3	South Sydney Kinkora
prevseason_link	1913 NSWRFL season
prevseason_year	1913
nextseason_link	1915 NSWRFL season
nextseason_year	1915

The 1914 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the seventh season of Sydney's top-grade rugby league football club competition, Australia's first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season. The 1914 season's gate receipts totalled £24,072, which was £7,038 more than the previous season's.{{cite news | access-date = 3 December 2009}}

Season summary

Following the retirement of Dally Messenger at the end of the 1913 season, Eastern Suburbs’ stranglehold on the premiership came to an end. In their place, previous premiers South Sydney and Newtown took control of the competition. Newtown were in a good position to take out their second premiership midway through the season but a loss to middle-placed Balmain hurt their cause, although Newtown defeated South Sydney the following week. It turned out that the Balmain loss would make the difference, with South Sydney finishing just one point ahead of Newtown at the end of the season to claim their third premiership. No Finals were contested. Members of the South Sydney premiership winning side included Howard Hallett (Player of the Season), Roy Almond, O. Brown, Arthur Butler, Harry Butler, William Cann, Jim Davis, Wally Dymant, E. Hilliard, Owen McCarthy, Arthur McCabe and Harold Horder.

The season was punctuated by matches against the 1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, and was the last for future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee Chris McKivat who went on to have a prominent coaching career.

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
Ground: Erskineville Oval
Captain: Paddy McCue	[[File:North Sydney Jersey 1909.png	100px	center]]North Sydney
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Captain: Albert Broomham	[[File:South Sydney Jersey 1914.png	100px	center]]South Sydney
Ground: Sydney Cricket Ground
Captain: Arthur Butler	[[File:Western Suburbs Jersey 1914.png	100px	center]]Western Suburbs
Ground: Pratten Park
Captain: Tedda Courtney

Ladder

The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1914 premiership across Sydney.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	[[Image:South Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] South Sydney	14	11	1	2	166	79	+87
2	[[Image:Newtown colours.svg	16x16px]] Newtown	14	11	0	3	185	111	+74
3	[[Image:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Eastern Suburbs	14	8	0	6	164	122	+42
4	[[Image:Balmain colours.svg	16x16px]] Balmain	14	6	4	4	132	111	+21
5	[[Image:Glebe colours.svg	16x16px]] Glebe	14	7	1	6	187	140	+47
6	[[Image:North Sydney colours.svg	16x16px]] North Sydney	14	5	1	8	158	165	-7
7	[[Image:Western Suburbs colours.svg	16x16px]] Western Suburbs	14	3	0	11	104	231	-127
8	[[Image:Annandale colours.svg	16x16px]] Annandale	14	1	1	12	106	243	-137

References

Sources

Rugby League Tables - Notes AFL Tables
Rugby League Tables - Season 1914 AFL Tables
Premiership History and Statistics RL1908
1914 - South Sydney Edge Out Newtown RL1908
Results: 1911-20 at rabbitohs.com.au

References

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

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