NSWRL 1923

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The NSWRL 1923 was the sixteenth season of the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership , the first Australian rugby league championship.

In 1923 two teams, the Eastern Suburbs and the South Sydney Rabbitohs , were again equal on points, so that, as in the previous year, a Grand Final took place. In the Grand Final, the Eastern Suburbs won 15:12 against the Rabbitohs, winning the NSWRL for the fourth time.

table

  • Playoff participation
  • team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points
    Diff. Table
    points
    01. Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Eastern suburbs 16 13 0 3 235: 124 + 111 30th
    02. South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 16 13 0 3 242: 173 + 69 30th
    03. Balmain colors.svg Balmain Tigers 16 10 1 5 247: 136 + 111 25th
    04th Western Suburbs colors.svg Western Suburbs Magpies 16 9 0 7th 257: 218 + 39 22nd
    05. North Sydney colors.svg North Sydney Bears 16 8th 0 8th 245: 223 + 22 20th
    06th Same colours.svg Glebe 16 6th 0 10 160: 193 - 33 16
    07th St. George colors.svg St. George Dragons 16 5 0 11 168: 236 - 68 14th
    08th. Newtown colors.svg Newtown Jets 16 4th 2 10 161: 297 - 136 14th
    09. University colors.svg Sydney University 16 2 1 13 120: 235 - 115 9
    • Since each team had two byes this season, only 4 points were added to the normal number of points after the season.

    Grand Final

    12th September
    Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Eastern suburbs 15:12 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs Sydney Cricket Ground , Sydney
    Spectators: 15,000
    Referees: Tom McMahon Sr.
    Attempts: Caples (2), Steel
    Elevations: Oxford (3/3)
    (7: 7)
    Report
    Attempts: Wearing (2)
    Increases: Wearing (2/2)
    Penalty kicks: Horns (1)
    1 Ed Rigney
    2 Cyril Abotomey
    3 Jack Dawson
    4th Les Steel
    5 George Agar
    6th Harry Caples (C)Captain of the crew
    7th Sid Kaufman
    8th Arthur Oxford
    9 Jack Watkins
    10 William Ives
    11 Tom Molloy
    12 Harold Holmes
    13 Bill Richards
    Substitute:
    14th Edward Connerton
    1 Howard Hallett
    2 Benjamin Wearing
    3 Tom Barry
    4th Vic Lawrence
    5 Oscar Quinlivan
    6th William Gillespie
    7th Alec Johnson
    8th Dave Watson
    9 Pat Murphy
    10 Perc Horne
    11 Ern Willmott
    12 Alf O'Connor
    13 Jack Lawrence

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