1941–42 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season

1941–42 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season
League	Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League
1941–42 Season
Champions	Dewsbury
Runner-up	Bradford Northern
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The 1941–42 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the third season of the rugby league’s Wartime Emergency League necessitated by the Second World War.
As in the previous (second) Wartime season, the clubs each played a different number of games and several clubs dropped out . In fact as only 17 of the original clubs remained (and only Oldham, St Helens and Wigan from west of the Pennines) the leagues were amalgamated into one single Championship.

The 1941–42 season began on Saturday 6 September 1941. As there were now only three Lancashire clubs who have not had to close down and withdraw from the League, the Northern Rugby League decided to unite all the 17 remaining clubs into one single Competition. As the clubs were still playing different number of matches, the league positions and the title would be decided on a percentage basis.

At the completion of the regular season Dewsbury were on top of the league both on points scored (39 points) and percentage success (81.25%). Bradford Northern were second and the highest Lancashire team were placed sixth (Wigan).

Dewsbury went on to defeat Bradford Northern 13-0 in the play-off final. and win the Championship for the second consecutive season.

The Wartime Emergency Leagues did not count as an official league championship.

In the Challenge Cup Final the same two clubs as last season contested the tie, with the same result, Leeds beat Halifax 15-10 at Odsal.

The Lancashire Cup, suspended for season 1940–41 remained so for the rest of the war and again Wigan competed in the Yorkshire Cup.

Bradford Northern beat Halifax 24-0 at Fartown in front of a 5,989 (receipts were £635.0.0). This was Bradford Northern's second consecutive victory in this tournament.

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