1913–14 Northern Rugby Football Union season | |
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League | Northern Rugby Football Union |
Teams | 25 |
1913–14 Season | |
Champions | Salford |
League Leaders | Huddersfield |
Top point-scorer(s) | Major Holland 268 |
Top try-scorer(s) | Albert Rosenfeld 80 |
The 1913–14 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 19th season of rugby league football.
Salford won the play-off final 5-3 against Huddersfield to record their first Championship.
Huddersfield ended the regular season with the best record and were trying for their third title in a row. During their campaign, Albert Rosenfeld scored the most tries in a league season (80) for Huddersfield .
The Challenge Cup Winners were Hull who beat Wakefield Trinity 6-0.
This season saw Hull pay a then World Record £600 plus £14 per week for Billy Batten, a three-quarter at Hunslet. Jack Harrison set a Hull club record 52 tries during this season.
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat Wigan 5–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Huddersfield beat Bradford Northern 19–3 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.
At the end of the season, several of the Northern Rugby Football Union's players were selected to go on the 1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.