The 1914
New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the seventh season of
Sydney
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'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.
Season summary
Following the retirement of
Dally Messenger at the end of the
1913 season,
Eastern Suburbs Eastern Suburbs may refer to:
Places
*Eastern Suburbs (Mumbai), India
*Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Australia
**Eastern Suburbs railway line, Sydney, Australia
Sports clubs
;Association football
*Eastern Suburbs AFC, Auckland, New Zealand
* Eastern ...
’ 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
Howard Hallett (1890–1970) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach for South Sydney of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Hallett primarily played at . He represented for New South Wales and Australia and is considered ...
(''Player of the Season''),
Roy Almond, O. Brown,
Arthur Butler,
Harry Butler,
William Cann,
Jim Davis,
Wally Dymant, E. Hilliard,
Owen McCarthy,
Arthur McCabe
Arthur John Michael "Mackker" McCabe (23 June 1887 – 30 July 1924) was an Australian rugby union and pioneer professional rugby league footballer. He represented for Australian in rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Rugby union career
...
and
Harold Horder.
The season was punctuated by matches against the
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, 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 Eastern Suburbs may refer to:
Places
*Eastern Suburbs (Mumbai), India
*Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Australia
**Eastern Suburbs railway line, Sydney, Australia
Sports clubs
;Association football
*Eastern Suburbs AFC, Auckland, New Zealand
* Eastern ...
, 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
Ladder
References
Sources
Rugby League Tables - Notes''AFL Tables''
''AFL Tables''
''RL1908''
''RL1908''
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