1925 NSWRFL season

Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Short description Template:Template other The 1925 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the eighteenth season of Sydney’s top-level rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Nine teams from across the city contested during the season, with South Sydney being crowned premiers by finishing on top of the League.

Season summary

For this season the St George Dragons found a permanent homeground at Earl Park, Arncliffe. The NSWRFL introduced reserve footballs, so that a game could continue even if the ball had been booted out of the stadium.

South Sydney won all their twelve matches during the season, and remain the only club to achieve this in the history of the competition and just one of five to go through a season undefeated. The Rabbitohs made a clean sweep of all three grades.

It was the first of seven premierships South Sydney would win in eight years through to 1932. There were no finals played. By Round 13 South Sydney was in such a dominant position (10 points ahead with five rounds to play) that the NSWRFL curtailed the competition and proceeded to the City Cup knockout tournament, which Souths also won.

Teams

• Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908, at Balmain Town Hall
• Eastern Suburbs, formed on January 24, 1908, at Paddington Town Hall
• Glebe, formed on January 9, 1908
• Newtown, formed on January 14, 1908
• North Sydney, formed on February 7, 1908
• South Sydney, formed on January 17, 1908, at Redfern Town Hall
• St. George, formed on November 8, 1920, at Kogarah School of Arts
• Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908
• University, formed in 1919 at Sydney University

Balmain File:Balmain Jersey 1909.png 18th season Ground: Birchgrove Oval Coach: Alf Fraser Captain: Charles Fraser	Eastern Suburbs File:Eastern Suburbs Jersey 1914.png 18th season Ground: Sydney Sports Ground Captain: Bill Ives	Glebe File:Glebe Jersey 1924.png 18th season Ground: Wentworth Oval Captain: Bert Gray
Newtown File:Newtown Jersey 1915.png 18th season Ground: Marrickville Oval Coach: Albert Johnston Captain: Perce Horne	North Sydney File:North Sydney Jersey 1921.png 18th season Ground: North Sydney Oval Coach: Jim Devereux Captain: Herman Peters	St. George File:St George Jersey 1921.png 5th season Ground: Earl Park Coach: Herb Gilbert Captain: Arnold Traynor
South Sydney File:South Sydney Jersey 1917.png 18th season Ground: Royal Agricultural Society Ground & Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Howard Hallett Captain: Alf Blair, Jack Lawrence	University File:Sydney University Jersey 1924.png 6th season Captains: Hubert Finn, Frank O'Rourke	Western Suburbs File:Western Suburbs Jersey 1924.png 18th season Ground: Pratten Park Captain: Gordon Stettler

Ladder

File:NSWRL 1921-1929.png

The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1925 premiership across Sydney.

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	File:South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney	12	12	0	0	1	190	87	+103	26
2	File:Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs	11	6	0	5	2	166	150	+16	16
3	File:Balmain colours.svg Balmain	12	6	1	5	1	133	112	+21	15
4	File:North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney	12	6	1	5	1	157	138	+19	15
5	File:St. George colours.svg St. George	11	5	1	5	2	132	141	-9	15
6	File:Glebe colours.svg Glebe	12	5	0	7	1	118	171	-53	12
7	File:University colours.svg Sydney University	11	3	1	7	2	118	142	-24	11
8	File:Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs	12	4	0	8	1	89	120	-31	10
9	File:Newtown colours.svg Newtown	11	3	0	8	2	94	136	-42	10

External links

• Rugby League Tables - Notes The World of Rugby League
• Rugby League Tables - Season 1925 AFL Tables
• Premiership History and Statistics RL1908
• History - Introduction North Sydney Bears
• Results: 1921-30 at rabbitohs.com.au