The 1937

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was the 30th season of the

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-based top-grade

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club competition, Australia's first. Nine teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season, which lasted from April until June, with Eastern Suburbs being crowned champions.

Season summary

The 1937 season only lasted eight rounds due to the

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, and used a “first past the post” system to determine the premiers. There were no Finals. The second half of what would normally have been the NSWRFL season was taken up with a

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competition.

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won their seventh Premiership going through the season undefeated – a feat achieved by teams in only five other seasons before or since. Having won only two matches in four seasons and only fifteen (plus two draws) in the nine seasons since 1929, the University club withdrew voluntarily from the premiership at the end of the season.

Teams

1937 proved University’s final NSWRFL season. After being allowed one more season to prove themselves, the Students did not win a match in any grade, scoring only 41 points in first grade, 39 in reserves, and 21 in third grade – in which University veterans were allowed to play the second half of the last match as a farewell.Lester, Gary; ''From Berries to Bulldogs: Fifty Years of Canterbury-Bankstown RLFC'', p. 25 * Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908, at

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, formed on January 24, 1908, at

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* Newtown, formed on January 14, 1908 * North Sydney, formed on February 7, 1908 * South Sydney, formed on January 17, 1908, at

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, formed on November 8, 1920, at Kogarah School of Arts *

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, formed in 1919 at

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* Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908

Ladder

References

External links

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