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1922 NSWRFL season

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1922 New South Wales Rugby Football League
Teams9
Premiers North Sydney (2nd title)
Minor premiers North Sydney (2nd title)
Matches played72
Points scored1841
Top points scorer(s) Harold Horder (151)
Top try-scorer(s) Cecil Blinkhorn (20)

The 1922 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the fifteenth season of Sydney’s top-grade rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Nine teams from across the city contested the season which culminated in North Sydney’s victory over Glebe in the premiership final.[1]

Season summary

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After the clubs had played each other twice, Norths and Glebe were tied atop the points table. Instead of the points differential rule being implemented a Grand Final was held to determine the premier.

St George had another disappointing season, winning only two games against University and conceding 316 points averaging 19.75 per game.

Teams

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Balmain
15th season
Ground: Birchgrove Oval
Captain-Coach: Charles Fraser
Eastern Suburbs
15th season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach:Ray Norman
Captain: Harry Caples
Glebe
15th season
Ground: Wentworth Oval
Captain(s): Frank Burge, Bill Benson
Newtown
15th season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach: Bill Farnsworth
Captain: Felix Ryan
North Sydney
15th season
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Coach: Chris McKivat
Captain: Duncan Thompson
St. George
2nd season
Ground: Hurstville Oval
Captain: Albert Johnston
Coach: Herb Gilbert
South Sydney
15th season
Ground: Sydney Cricket Ground
Coach: Howard Hallett
Captain: Alf Blair
University
3rd season
Coach: Sandy Pearce[2]
Captain: Jim Craig, Paddy Conaghan
Western Suburbs
15th season
Ground: Pratten Park
Captain-Coach: Ted Brooks
Co Captain: Dick Vest

Ladder

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The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1922 premiership across Sydney.
Team Pld W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 North Sydney 16 12 0 4 2 306 136 +170 28
2 Glebe 16 12 0 4 2 284 154 +130 28
3 Eastern Suburbs 16 9 2 5 2 217 177 +40 24
4 South Sydney 15 9 1 5 2 207 187 +20 23
5 Balmain 16 8 2 6 2 168 145 +23 22
6 Western Suburbs 16 6 0 10 2 164 201 -37 16
7 Newtown 16 5 1 10 2 169 200 -31 15
8 Sydney University 15 5 0 10 2 148 287 -139 14
9 St George 16 2 0 14 2 140 316 -176 8

Final

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Glebe Position North Sydney
Ron Stapleton FB Norm Proctor
Charlie Ogle WG Harold Horder
Ed Summers CE Frank Rule
Tommy James CE Herman Peters
Jack Toohey WG Cec Blinkhorn
William Stirton FE Dallas Hodgins
Bill Benson HB Duncan Thompson (c)
Frank Burge (c) PR Reg Farnell
Bert Gray HK Clarrie Ives
Laidley Burge PR Jim Pye
Tony Redmond SR Jack Baker
Walter Haddock SR George Green
Tom McGrath LK Wally Hancock
Coach Chris McKivat

As North Sydney and Glebe were tied on competition points a final was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 6 September, before a crowd of around 15,000. The match was officiated by Tom McMahon, the elder of the two pre-war referees of that name.

The game was not as even as the ladder at the end of regular season would have suggested. Norths completely got away to a 10-0 lead at half-time and went on to demolish Glebe 35-3, taking their second consecutive premiership crown. The legendary Harold Horder scored twenty individual points in the match.

This was North Sydney’s second premiership, their last before becoming the Bears in 1959, and last before being excluded from the competition after the 1999 NRL season. There have been ongoing efforts to resurrect the Bears

North Sydney 35 (Tries: Rule 2, Blinkhorn 2, Horder 2, Peters. Goals: Horder 7 )

defeated

Glebe 3 (Try: E Summers)

References

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  1. ^ Premiership Roll of Honour Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine at rl1908.com
  2. ^ Sunday Times (Sydney)2 April 1922, page 3,'Sid Pearce to coach University'
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