The 1927–28
Rugby Football League
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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 United Kingdom, British rugby league side in the top division between 1907 and 1970. The cups available to win were the Rugby Football League Championship First Divisi ...
.
Season summary
Swinton won their second, and successive, Championship when they defeated
Featherstone Rovers
Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Post Office Road and currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league.
Featherstone ...
11-0 in the play-off final.
Swinton had also ended the regular season as the league leaders.
The
Challenge Cup
The Rugby Football League Challenge Cup, commonly known just as the Challenge Cup is a Single-elimination tournament, knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, it is the world's old ...
Winners were
Swinton who beat
Warrington
Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ...
5-3 in the final.
Pontypridd
Pontypridd ( , ), Colloquialism, colloquially referred to as ''Ponty'', is a town and a Community (Wales), community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately 10 miles north west of Cardiff city centre.
Geography
Pontypridd comprises the ...
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
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...
won the
Yorkshire League.
Swinton beat
Wigan
Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its ad ...
5–2 to win the
Lancashire Cup, and
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, ...
beat
Hull F.C. 8–2 to win the
Yorkshire
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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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