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1907–08 Northern Rugby Football Union season

1907–08 Northern Rugby Football Union season
League Northern Rugby League
1907–08 Season
Champions Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet
League Leaders Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham
Top point-scorer(s) Hunsletcolours.svg Albert Goldthorpe 217
Top try-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg Jim Leytham 44
Seasons

The 1907–08 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 13th season of rugby league football.

League Champions were Hunslet who beat Oldham 12-2 in a replay after a 7-7 draw. It was the first time a team that did not finish top of the league won the Championship.

Challenge Cup Winners were Hunslet who defeated Hull F.C. 14-0.

Liverpool City were replaced by the two Welsh clubs, Merthyr Tydfil and Ebbw Vale, taking the competition to 27 clubs.

Bradford switched to Association Football and were replaced by Bradford Northern.

Oldham won the Lancashire League, and Hunslet won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat Broughton Rangers 16–9 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hunslet beat Halifax 17–0 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Hunslet won All Four Cups available to them; Challenge Cup, Rugby Football League Championship, Yorkshire league, and Yorkshire County Cup.


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