1929 NSWRFL season

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1929 New South Wales Rugby Football League
Teams9
Premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (9th title)
Minor premiers South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney (8th title)
Matches played75
Points scored1942
Top points scorer(s) Western Suburbs colours.svg Jim Craig (86)
Top try-scorer(s) Western Suburbs colours.svg Alan Brady (11)

The 1929 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 22nd season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australia's first. During the season, which lasted from April until September, nine teams from across Sydney contested the premiership, culminating in a South Sydney's win over Newtown in the final. [1]

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Season summary

Half of the 1929 season was played without several of the League's top players who were selected to embark on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. South Sydney won their ninth premiership and fifth in succession, defeating Newtown in the Final.

Teams

At the end of 1929 Glebe exited the League [2] because of a lack of a home ground, poor results and primarily because the area they represented was no longer big enough to support a club.

Balmain
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22nd season
Ground: Birchgrove Oval
Captain-Coach: Reg Latta 		Eastern Suburbs
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22nd season
Ground: RAS Showground
Coach: George Boddington
Captain: Arthur Oxford 		Glebe
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22nd season
Ground: Wentworth Park
Coach: Chris McKivat
Captain: Jack McMahon
Newtown
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22nd season
Ground: Marrickville Oval
Coach: Jack Chaseling [3]
Captain(s): Tom Ellis, Fred Lind 		North Sydney
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22nd season
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Coach: Leo O'Connor
Captain: Les Carroll		 St. George
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9th season
Ground: Earl Park
Coach: Frank Burge
Captain: Arthur Justice
South Sydney
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22nd season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach: Charlie Lynch
Captain: Alf Blair 		University
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10th season
Coach:Billy Kelly
Captain: Sammy Ogg 		Western Suburbs
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22nd season
Ground: Pratten Park
Captain-Coach: Jim Craig

Ladder

TeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 1613122296104+19231
2 St. George colours.svg St. George 1611142180147+3327
3 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 1610242258153+10526
4 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 1610062188169+1924
5 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 166372194211-1719
6 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 166192213259-4617
7 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 1642102203269-6614
8 Glebe colours.svg Glebe 1633102166261-9513
9 University colours.svg Sydney University 1621132157282-1259

Finals

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueRefereeCrowd
Minor Semi-Final
Newtown colours.svg Newtown 8–7 St. George colours.svg St. George 7 September 1929 Earl Park 7,000
Major Semi-Final
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 22–10 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 7 September 1929 Sydney Sports Ground Lal Deane14,774
Final
South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 30–10 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 14 September 1929 Sydney Sports Ground Lal Deane16,360

Premiership final

South SydneyPositionNewtown
47. Albert Spillane FB 20. Jim Gilmour
9. Benny Wearing WG 25. George Casey
15. Oscar Quinlivan CE 10. Carl Mork
34. Harry Eyres CE 18.Charlie Hill
35. Reg Williams WG 9. Jack Kessey (c)
28. Jack Jones FE 23. Vince Hughes
11. Alf Blair (c) HB 7. Hans Mork
  1. Frank O'Connor
PR 16. Charlie Pendergast
5. Alf O'Connor HK 8. Tom Leamy
24. Carl Eggen PR 32. Ben Edwards
2. Alf Binder SR 3. Dave Waters
7. David Watson SR 51. Jack Davies
8. Jack Why LK 5. T Walsh
Charlie Lynch Coach

South Sydney took their fifth successive title outgunning Newtown 30–10 after leading 18–2 at half-time.

The Whiticker/Collis reference quotes Sydney's Labor Daily [4] in praise of Souths' win: "Newtown faced inevitable defeat, and while the margin was large, it hardly demonstrated South Sydney's superiority. They were on top from the start and gave a scintillating display both in combination and individual effort. Alf Blair played probably the greatest game in his long career".

Brothers Alf and Frank O'Connor both scored tries for the winning Rabbitohs. The next time two brothers would each score a try in a premiership decider was when Brett and Glenn Stewart scored for Manly-Warringah in their 2011 NRL Grand Final win over New Zealand.

South Sydney 30 (Tries: Alf Blair 3, Reg Williams 3, Frank O'Connor, Alf O'Connor. Goals: Alf Blair 2, Reg Williams)

defeated

Newtown 10 (Tries: Ben Edwards 2. Goals: George Casey 2)

Alf O'Connor Alf O'Connor 1925.jpg
Alf O'Connor

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References

  1. ↑ Premiership Roll of Honour Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine at rl1908.com
  2. ↑ "History of the Premiership". centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au. Australian Rugby League. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  3. ↑ History Of NSW Rugby League Finals. Stephen Hadden ( ISBN   978 0 646 05098 0)
  4. ↑ "Whiticker & Collis p 35"
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