1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season
Introduction The '''1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season''' was the tenth season of rugby league football.
Season summary Oldham won their first Division One Championship whilst Warrington won the Challenge Cup.Holbeck and South Shields dropped out, reducing the competition to 15 teams.Birkenhead resigned after 4 games, the results of which were struck out of the table. They lost all four games, conceding 93 points and scoring none.On 4 March 1905, a record 11 tries were scored by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers in the Northern Union Challenge Cup. In this same match the record for most points in a match, 53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) was recorded.There was no county league competition this season.At the end of the season, all division one and division two clubs. except Lancaster, were elected to the new single top division, the NRFU Championship.
Notable events * At the start of this season, the Northern Union changed its rules to allow clubs to have full-time players paid by the clubs, thus making it fully professional.
Division One TeamPldWDLPFPAPts1'''Oldham'''342518291158512Bradford342329294156483Broughton Rangers3422210295175464Leeds3420410232150445Warrington3420212220150426Salford3419213276204407Wigan3418115230195378Hull3415415224214349Hunslet34161172402163310Halifax34152172041553211Leigh34143171652093112Hull Kingston Rovers34150192002203013Swinton34132191551962814Wakefield Trinity34132191542112815Batley34123191602282716Widnes34131201282802717St. Helens3491241683511918Runcorn34712613330115
Division two TeamPldWDLPFPAPts1Dewsbury26222224748462Barrow26220428668443York26183520576394Keighley26152925994325Huddersfield2614210231143306Rochdale Hornets2611411154145267Millom2612014139173248Pontefract2610115156175219Castleford2693141041992110Normanton2691161052281911Brighouse Rangers2681171111691712Lancaster2681171062571713Morecambe267217882721614Bramley2652199523912
Challenge Cup Warrington  beat Hull Kingston Rovers 6–0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 19,638 to win the Cup at their third attempt in a final.
References
External links *  1904-05 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com