Rugby league season
The 1907–08 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the 13th season of rugby league football .
Season summary
League Champions were Hunslet who beat Oldham 12-2 in a replay after a 7-7 draw. It was the first time a team that did not finish top of the league won the Championship.
Challenge Cup Winners were Hunslet who defeated Hull F.C. 14-0.
Liverpool City were replaced by the two Welsh clubs, Merthyr Tydfil and Ebbw Vale , taking the competition to 27 clubs.[ 1]
Bradford switched to association football and were replaced by Bradford Northern .
Oldham won the Lancashire League , and Hunslet won the Yorkshire League .
Hunslet won All Four Cups available to them; Challenge Cup , Rugby Football League Championship , Yorkshire league , and Yorkshire Cup .
New Zealand toured England this season . On 28 December 1907, they defeated Salford 9-2 in front of 9,000 spectators.[ 2]
Championship
Championship play-off
Challenge Cup
The final saw Hunslet 's 14-0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1908 Challenge Cup Final during the 1907–08 season at Fartown Ground , Huddersfield on Saturday 25 April 1908, in front of a crowd of 18,000, the referee was Mr. J. H. Smith of Widnes , and the Challenge Cup Trophy was presented by Mr H. Ashton (President of the Northern Union ).[ 3] [ 4]
Hunslet Tries: Fred Smith , Fred Farrar
Hunslet Goals: Billy Eagers , (Albert, or Walter) Goldthorpe 3
Half-time: 7-0
Attendance: 18,000 (at Fartown Ground , Huddersfield )
Teams:
Hunslet: Herbert Place , Fred Farrar , Billy Eagers , Walter Goldthorpe , Billy Batten , Albert Goldthorpe , Fred Smith , Harry Wilson , Bill Brookes , Bill Jukes , John "Jack" Randall , John Higson , Tom Walsh
Hull FC: Harry Taylor , L. Parry, G. T. Cottrell, F. J. Cook, (E. or Ned) Rogers, Harry Wallace , Billie Anderson , Tom Herridge , J. Owen, W. J. Carroll, G. Kilburn, H. Fulton, William Holder
County cups
Oldham beat Broughton Rangers 16–9 to win the Lancashire Cup , and Hunslet beat Halifax 17–0 to win the Yorkshire Cup .
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