The 1927–28
Rugby Football League season was the 33rd season of
rugby league football. Swinton won
All four cups
Winning All Four Cups referred to winning all four competitions available to a British rugby league side in the top division between 1907 and 1970. The cups available to win were the First Division Championship, Challenge Cup, county league (La ...
.
Season summary
Swinton won their second, and successive, Championship when they defeated
Featherstone Rovers 11-0 in the play-off final.
Swinton had also ended the regular season as the league leaders.
The
Challenge Cup
The Challenge Cup is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940, due to World War I and World War II respectively. It involves am ...
Winners were
Swinton who beat
Warrington 5-3 in the final.
Pontypridd resigned from the League after playing 8 games, and their record was expunged from the table. They won 1 and lost 7, scoring 46 and conceding 149.
1927-28.
Swinton won the
Lancashire League, and
Leeds won the
Yorkshire League.
Swinton beat
Wigan 5–2 to win the
Lancashire Cup, and
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...
beat
Hull F.C. 8–2 to win the
Yorkshire County Cup.
Championship
Championship play-off
Challenge Cup
Swinton beat Warrington 5-3 in the final played at Wigan in front of a crowd of 33,909.
This was Swinton’s third Challenge Cup Final win from four Final appearances and completed a League and Cup double for the club.
References
Sources
1927-28 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.comThe Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website
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