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Rugby league competition
Rugby league season
The
1937
New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership
was the 30th season of the
Sydney, New South Wales
-based top-grade
rugby league
club competition, Australia's first. Nine teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season, which lasted from April until June, with Eastern Suburbs being crowned champions.
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Season summary
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The 1937 season only lasted eight rounds due to the
Kangaroo tour
, and used a “first past the post” system to determine the premiers. There were no Finals. The second half of what would normally have been the NSWRFL season was taken up with a
City Cup
competition.
Eastern Suburbs
won their seventh Premiership going through the season undefeated ? a feat achieved by teams in only five other seasons before or since. Having won only two matches in four seasons and only fifteen (plus two draws) in the nine seasons since 1929, the University club withdrew voluntarily from the premiership at the end of the season.
Teams
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1937 proved University’s final NSWRFL season.
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After being allowed one more season to prove themselves, the Students did not win a match in any grade, scoring only 41 points in first grade, 39 in reserves, and 21 in third grade ? in which University veterans were allowed to play the second half of the last match as a farewell.
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- Balmain
, formed on January 23, 1908, at
Balmain Town Hall
- Canterbury-Bankstown
- Eastern Suburbs
, formed on January 24, 1908, at
Paddington Town Hall
- 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
- University
, formed in 1919 at
Sydney University
- Western Suburbs
, formed on February 4, 1908
Ladder
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The geographical locations of the teams that contested the 1937 premiership across Sydney.
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