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The 1909 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the second season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Eight teams contested during the season for the premiership and the Royal Agricultural Society Challenge Shield; seven teams from Sydney and one team from Newcastle, New South Wales. At the begninning of the season, the nearly broke NSWRFL had met and kicked out its founders Henry Hoyle, Victor Trumper and J J Giltinan. Part-way through the season, Edward Larkin was appointed full-time secretary of the NSWRFL. Also in 1909 north of the border, the Queensland Rugby Football League got its club competition started for the rebel football code of rugby league. ==Teams== The teams that made up the 1909 premiership season were the same as the 1908 season with the exception of Cumberland who were dissolved, being unable to field a competitive team. Their last premiership match turned out to be a 45-0 loss at the hands of North Sydney on 25 July 1908, a game where the team had to "borrow" two of North Sydney's officials in order to make up a 13-man side. Seven of Cumberland's players ended up going to Western Suburbs the following year, but only three of these players were able to play another premiership match. * Balmain, formed on 23 January 1908 at Balmain Town Hall * Eastern Suburbs, formed on 24 January 1908 at Paddington Town Hall * Glebe, formed on 9 January 1908 * Newcastle, formed on 10 February 1908 at Pike's Rooms, Bolton Street, Newcastle * Newtown, formed on 8 January 1908 * North Sydney, formed on 7 February 1908 * South Sydney, formed on 17 January 1908 at Redfern Town Hall * Western Suburbs formed on 4 February 1908 Souths lost only one game in the regular season, to Newcastle in Newcastle, 3 days after the Novocastrians had beaten the New Zealand Māori team. Glebe included Peter Moko, the first player of Polynesian background to play in the premiership.〔(The pick of the Pacific ) ''theage.com.au'', 5 March 2009〕 Newcastle exited the League at the end of the season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1909 NSWRFL season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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