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1924–25 Northern Rugby Football League season

1924–25 Northern Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Teams 27
Champions HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
League Leaders Swintoncolours.svg Swinton
Top point-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg Jim Sullivan 282
Top try-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg Johnny Ring 54
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The 1924–25 Rugby Football League season was the 30th season of rugby league football.

Hull Kingston Rovers won their second Championship by defeating Swinton in the play-off final.

Swinton had ended the regular season as league leaders.

Oldham defeated Hull Kingston Rovers to win the Challenge Cup.

Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Hull Kingston Rovers won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat St.Helens Recs 10–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Batley 9–8 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Oldham beat Hull Kingston Rovers 16-3 in the final played at Leeds before a crowd of 28,335.

This was Oldham’s fifth appearance in the Final and their second win. Their previous Cup Final win was back in 1899.

During this season's Cup competition, Wigan's Jim Sullivan set a Challenge Cup record for the most goals kicked in a match, when he was successful 22 times against the amateur team, Flimby and Fothergill.


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