1942 NSWRFL season

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1942 New South Wales Rugby Football League
Teams8
Premiers Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown (2nd title)
Minor premiers Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown (2nd title)
Matches played61
Points scored1895
Top points scorer(s) St. George colours.svg Ray Lindwall (143)
Top try-scorer(s) St. George colours.svg Jack Lindwall (16)

The 1942 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the thirty-fifth season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Eight teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season, which lasted from May until September, culminating in the Canterbury-Bankstown club's grand final victory over St. George. [1]

Contents

Teams

Balmain
Balmain Jersey 1935.png

35th season
Ground: Birchgrove Oval
Coach: Bill Kelly
Captain: Dawson Buckley

Canterbury-Bankstown
Canterbury-Bankstown Jersey 1942.png

8th season
Ground: Belmore Sports Ground
Coach: Jerry Brien
Captain: Ron Bailey

Eastern Suburbs
Eastern Suburbs Jersey 1914.png

35th season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach: Joe Pearce
Captain: Ray Stehr

Newtown
Newtown Jersey 1915.png

35th season
Ground: Henson Park
Coach: Arthur Folwell
Captain: Tom Kirk

North Sydney
North Sydney Jersey 1941.png

35th season
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Coach: Jack O'Reilly
Captain: Rex Harrison

South Sydney
South Sydney Jersey 1930.png

35th season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Coach: Jim Tait
Captain: Fred Felsch

St. George
St George Jersey 1934.png

22nd season
Ground: Hurstville Oval
Captain-coach: Len Kelly

Western Suburbs
Western Suburbs Jersey 1924.png

35th season
Ground: St Lukes Oval
Captain-Coach: Albert McGuinness

Ladder

The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1942 premiership across Sydney. NSWRL 1938-1946.png
The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1942 premiership across Sydney.
TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury 141004264162+10220
2 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 141004223192+3120
3 St. George colours.svg St. George 14905271205+6618
4 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 14806213214-116
5 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 14716209191+1815
6 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 14509220216+410
7 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 14419189266-779
8 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 142012148291-1434

Finals

The minor premiership was won by Canterbury-Bankstown in a play off against Balmain after both sides had finished the season on twenty points.

In the semi-finals, Canterbury-Bankstown lost their match to St. George whilst Eastern Suburbs, who only just made the finals after South Sydney had drawn their match in the final round of the season, defeated Balmain. The result of the first semi final meant that St. George and Eastern Suburbs played a preliminary final which would decide who met minor premiers Canterbury-Bankstown in the Grand Final. St. George won the match, as they had done four weeks earlier over Easts in the final round of the season proper.

St. George had won two matches in the semis while Canterbury had just one victory, but the Berries were guaranteed a Grand Final berth under a call back of the old rules giving the minor premiers a right of challenge. In the Grand Final, Canterbury-Bankstown narrowly defeated St. George to collect their second premiership victory.

HomeScoreAwayMatch information
Date and timeVenueRefereeCrowd
Playoff
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 26–20 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 15 August 1942 Sydney Cricket Ground 17,300
Semifinals
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 10–25 St. George colours.svg St. George 22 August 1942 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack O'Brien26,467
Balmain colours.svg Balmain 14–20 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 29 August 1942 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack O'Brien19,782
Preliminary Final
St. George colours.svg St. George 18–5 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 5 September 1942 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack O'Brien30,858
Grand Final
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 11–9 St. George colours.svg St. George 12 September 1942 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack O'Brien26,171

Grand Final

Canterbury-BankstownPositionSt. George
13. Lindsay Johnson FB 13. Ray Lindwall
12. Edgar Newham WG 10. Doug McRitchie
9. Ron Bailey (c) CE 29. Ted McHugh
31. Ron Knight CE 12. Noel Jones
14. Bob Jackson WG 17. Jack Lindwall
34. Tom Ezart FE 53. Cedric Turvey
10. Jack Bonnyman HB 20. Eric Laurence
3. Henry Porter PR 3. Charlie Montgomery
15. Roy Kirkaldy HK
  1. Herb Gilbert Jnr
  1. Eddie Burns
PR 5. Bill McRitchie
4. George Elley SR 43. Alister Clarke
5. Bob Farrar SR 4. Len Kelly (c/c)
17. Frank Sponberg LK 26. Bill Collier
Jerry Brien Coach

The Sydney Cricket Ground was a muddy quagmire with a treacherous patch in the centre which kept the teams evenly matched and the crowd in a fever of excitement until the final whistle. The "Gregory’s" reference records that 7,000 of the crowd on the hill had jumped the fence during the reserve grade final and invaded the half-empty new member's stand. Towards the end of the first grade match 5,000 people crowded onto the touchline and referee O'Brien had to hold up play until officials were able to get them back twenty yards. [2]

Canterbury's defence was tested during a torrid ten-minute period when St. George hurled themselves at the line from never more than eight yards away. The Berries defence held and the Dragons could not break through.

The Canterbury-Bankstown tactics were to keep the game with the forwards and away from the St George backs. Canterbury hooker Kirkaldy won the vital scrums. Bob Farrar, Frank Sponberg and Henry Porter were tireless with Porter's handling and kicking skills on display.

Saints were leading 9–6 late in the match after a try to their record-breaking winger Jack Lindwall was converted by his brother Ray Lindwall. Berries' winger Bob Jackson then scored a magnificent try made possible by a resolute and tricky run from skipper Ron Bailey which locked up the scores at 9–all.

Canterbury's Lindsay Johnson managed a late conversion to secure the win. Johnson's goal just scraped over the cross bar to give his team the premiership.

Canterbury-Bankstown 11 (Tries: Jackson. Goals: Johnson 4) [3]

defeated

St George 9 (Tries: J. Lindwall. Goals: R. Lindwall 3) [4]

Player statistics

The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 14.

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References

  1. ↑ Premiership Roll of Honour Archived 28 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine at rl1908.com
  2. ↑ Pollard, Jack (1965). Gregory's Guide to Rugby League. Australia: Grenville Publishing. p82.
  3. ↑ 1942 Grand Final Archived 6 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine at nrlstats.com
  4. ↑ "GRAND FINAL: Premiership to Canterbury". The Sydney Morning Herald . Australia. 14 September 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
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