- New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1927
Infobox rugby league season
year = 1927
competition = New South Wales Rugby Football League
imagesize = 125px
caption =
teams = 9
premiers =
count = 7th
minor premiers =
mpcount = 7th
matches = 75
points = 2183
attendance =
top points scorer = (94)
top try scorer = (19)The1927 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twentieth season of therugby league football competition based in Sydney. Nine teams from acrossSydney contested during the season.eason summary
The 1927 season saw a new record for length of a player's suspension. Balmain's
Bill Maizey was suspended for 12 months for punching Easts playerGeorge Clamback .Teams
* Balmain, formed on
January 23 1908 at Balmain Town Hall
* Eastern Suburbs, formed onJanuary 24 1908 at Paddington Town Hall
* Glebe, formed onJanuary 9 1908
* Newtown, formed onJanuary 14 1908
* North Sydney, formed onFebruary 7 1908
* South Sydney, formed onJanuary 17 1908 at Redfern Town Hall
* St. George, formed onNovember 8 1920 at Kogarah School of Arts
* Western Suburbs, formed onFebruary 4 1908
* University, formed in1919 at Sydney UniversityPlaying on a quagmire at the Royal Agricultural Society Grounds in front of a modest crowd of 12,124 St. George contested their first ever premiership decider in their seventh year in the top league. They confronted the might of South Sydney who were reigning premiers in the two prior years and minor premiers at the end of the 1927 regular season.
The two teams had already met earlier in the season at the Sydney Cricket Ground when Souths defeated Saints 17-14 in front of a massive crowd of 31,500. With heavy rain falling throughout the match, refereed by former Rabbitoh and international
Webby Neill Souths took a 13-6 lead to the half time break. The Rabbitohs won the decider scoring four tries to three to take their third successive premiership and becoming the third club to do so. SouthsSouth Sydney 20 (Tries: Carr, Root, Wearing, Finch. Goals: Blair 2, Kadwell 2)
defeated
St George 11 (Tries: Justice, Carstairs, Saunders. Goal: Saunders )
References
* [http://www.stats.rleague.com/rl/snotes.html Rugby League Tables - Notes] "The World of Rugby League"
* [http://www.stats.rleague.com/rl/seas/1927.html Rugby League Tables - Season 1927] "The World of Rugby League"
* [http://www.rl1908.com/premiership.htm Premiership History and Statistics] "RL1908"
* [http://www.rabbitohs.com.au/The-Club/Tradition/Results---1921-1930.html Results: 1921-30 at rabbitohs.com.au]
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