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1920–21 Northern Rugby Football Union season

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title	1920–21 Northern Rugby Football Union season
league	Championship
no_of_teams	25
season_champs	Hull F.C. (2nd title)
season_champ_name	Champions
league_leaders	Hull Kingston Rovers
league_leaders_name	League Leaders
second_place	Hull Kingston Rovers
top_scorer	Jimmy Kennedy ( Hull F.C.) (264)
top try scorer	ENG Billy Stone ( Hull F.C.) (41)
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The 1920–21 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 26th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Hull F.C. won their second ever Championship in as many seasons when they defeated local rivals Hull Kingston Rovers 16-14 in the Championship play-off.

Hull Kingston Rovers had ended the regular season as league leaders.

Leigh won the Challenge Cup beating Halifax 13-0 in the final.{{cite web |access-date = 8 August 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090804034721/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php |archive-date = 4 August 2009 |url-status = live

Jim Kennedy of Hull F.C. set a club record of 14 goals scored in a match against Rochdale Hornets on 7 April 1921. On 29 January 1921 he had also scored a club record 36 points (4 tries and 12 goals) in a single match against Keighley.

Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Halifax won the Yorkshire League. Broughton Rangers beat Leigh 6–3 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull Kingston Rovers beat Hull F.C. 2–0 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts	Pct
1	Hull Kingston Rovers	32	24	1	7	432	233	49
2	Hull	36	27	0	9	722	267	54
3	Halifax	38	27	0	11	492	184	54
4	Wigan	34	23	1	10	435	238	47
5	Swinton	34	22	1	11	289	250	45
6	Dewsbury	34	20	3	11	349	233	43
7	York	30	18	1	11	280	225	37
8	Leeds	34	20	1	13	380	209	41
9	Broughton Rangers	30	16	3	11	283	164	35
10	Rochdale Hornets	34	18	2	14	311	301	38
11	Widnes	30	15	2	13	231	252	32
12	Barrow	32	17	0	15	328	254	34
13	Warrington	34	17	2	15	295	289	36
14	Huddersfield	36	18	2	16	376	283	38
15	St Helens Recs	30	15	1	14	299	201	31
16	Batley	32	16	1	15	312	225	33
17	St. Helens	30	14	0	16	254	304	28
18	Oldham	34	13	3	18	267	254	29
19	Wakefield Trinity	34	14	1	19	253	426	29
20	Leigh	32	10	3	19	173	316	23
21	Bramley	30	9	0	21	153	371	18
22	Hunslet	32	8	1	23	190	298	17
23	Bradford Northern	32	6	1	25	177	656	13
24	Keighley	34	5	0	29	159	655	10
25	Salford	32	2	2	28	111	463	6

Championship play-off

| RD2-team1=Hull Kingston Rovers | RD2-score1=14 | RD2-team2=Hull | RD2-score2=16

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1920-21 Challenge Cup

Leigh defeated Halifax 13-0 in the final played at Broughton in front of a crowd of 25,000.

This was Leigh’s first Challenge Cup Final win in their first final appearance.

Sources

1920-21 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com

References

(June 2017). "Hull F.C. History".
(1995). "Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996". Headline Book Publishing.

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