Quote ="spanishbob"And they won the first league in 1895.
Championship ladder
Club P W D L PF PA D Pts
1 Manningham 42 33 0 9 367 158 209 66
2 Halifax 42 30 5 7 312 139 173 65
3 Runcorn 42 24 8 10 314 143 171 56
4 Oldham 42 27 2 13 374 194 180 56
5 Brighouse 42 22 9 11 247 129 118 53
6 Tyldesley 42 21 8 13 260 164 96 50
7 Hunslet 42 24 2 16 279 207 72 50
8 Hull 42 23 3 16 259 158 101 49
9 Leigh 42 21 4 17 214 269 (55) 46
10 Wigan 42 19 7 16 245 147 98 45
11 Bradford 42 18 9 15 254 175 79 45
12 Leeds 42 20 3 19 258 247 11 43
13 Warrington 42 17 5 20 198 240 (42) 39
14 St. Helens 42 15 8 19 195 230 (35) 36*
15 Liversedge 42 15 4 23 261 355 (94) 34
16 Widnes 42 14 4 24 177 323 (146) 32
17 Stockport 42 12 8 22 171 315 (144) 32
18 Batley 42 12 7 23 137 298 (161) 31
19 Wakefield Trinity 42 13 4 25 156 318 (162) 30
20 Huddersfield 42 10 4 28 194 274 (80) 24
21 Broughton 42 8 8 26 165 244 (79) 24
22 Rochdale 42 4 8 30 78 388 (310) 16
*St. Helens had 2 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player'"
When you look at that it is quite amazing
42 matches played through winter on pitches without u soil heating and many of todays technologies
21 away matches all traveled most likely by train and then horse drawn coach , I wonder how long it took the Hull and Runcorn players to make the trip to each other
Makes you think doesn't it
