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NSWRFL season 1913

1913 NSWRFL season
League New South Wales Rugby Football League
Duration May 3 to August 16
Teams 8
Matches played 56
Points scored 1344
Premiers Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs (3rd title)
Minor Premiers Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs (2nd title)
Top point-scorer(s) South Sydney colours.svg Harold Horder (65)
Top try-scorer(s) South Sydney colours.svg Harold Horder (13)
Second Grade
Number of teams 14
Premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney
Runners-up Grosvenor
Third Grade
Number of teams 21 (1 withdrew)
Premiers South Sydney Federals
Runners-up South Sydney Kinkora
Seasons

The 1913 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixth season of Sydney’s top-level rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season.

By the start of the 1913 season, the NSWRFL had secured the use of the Sydney Cricket Ground for its games.

As occurred in the 1912 season, the minor premiers were deemed the overall premiers. Eastern Suburbs, who finished top of the table for the second time in as many years, claimed their third straight premiership as a result. The team’s success could be attributed to the talent in the team at the time, with ten players having played for Australia and another three for New South Wales. Of the team’s two losses, one came at the hands of runners-up Newtown midway through the season and the other in the final round to Glebe after the title had already been won.

This Eastern Suburbs side is still considered to be one of the greatest club teams ever assembled, with players including Dally Messenger, Wally Messenger, Sandy Pearce, Larry O'Malley, Les Cubitt, Dan Frawley and Arthur “Pony” Halloway. This season also saw the retirement from the League of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Dally Messenger.


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