1925 NSWRFL season
The 1925 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the eighteenth season of Sydney’s top-level rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Nine teams from across the city contested during the season, with South Sydney being crowned premiers by finishing on top of the League.
Season summary
For this season the St George Dragons found a permanent homeground at Earl Park, Arncliffe. The NSWRFL introduced reserve footballs, so that a game could continue even if the ball had been booted out of the stadium.South Sydney won all their twelve matches during the season, and remain the only club to achieve this in the history of the competition and just one of five to go through a season undefeated. The Rabbitohs made a clean sweep of all three grades.
It was the first of seven premierships South Sydney would win in eight years through to 1932. There were no finals played. By Round 13 South Sydney was in such a dominant position that the NSWRFL curtailed the competition and proceeded to the City Cup knockout tournament, which Souths also won.
Teams
- Balmain, formed on January 23, 1908, at Balmain Town Hall
- Eastern Suburbs, formed on January 24, 1908, at Paddington Town Hall
- Glebe, formed on January 9, 1908
- 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
- Western Suburbs, formed on February 4, 1908
- University, formed in 1919 at Sydney University
| Balmain 18th season Ground: Birchgrove Oval Coach: Alf Fraser Captain: Charles Fraser | Eastern Suburbs 18th season Ground: Sydney Sports Ground Captain: Bill Ives | Glebe 18th season Ground: Wentworth Oval Captain: Bert Gray |
| Newtown 18th season Ground: Marrickville Oval Coach: Albert Johnston Captain: Perce Horne | North Sydney 18th season Ground: North Sydney Oval Coach: Jim Devereux Captain: Herman Peters | St. George 5th season Ground: Earl Park Coach: Herb Gilbert Captain: Arnold Traynor |
| South Sydney 18th season Ground: Royal Agricultural Society Ground & Sydney Sports Ground Coach: Howard Hallett Captain: Alf Blair, Jack Lawrence | University 6th season Captains: Hubert Finn, Frank O'Rourke | Western Suburbs 18th season Ground: Pratten Park Captain: Gordon Stettler |
Ladder
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
| 1 | South Sydney | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 190 | 87 | +103 | 26 |
| 2 | Western Suburbs | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 166 | 150 | +16 | 16 |
| 3 | Balmain | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 130 | 112 | +21 | 15 |
| 4 | North Sydney | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 157 | 138 | +19 | 15 |
| 5 | St. George | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 132 | 141 | -9 | 15 |
| 6 | Glebe | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 118 | 171 | -53 | 12 |
| 7 | Sydney University | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 118 | 142 | -24 | 11 |
| 8 | Eastern Suburbs | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 89 | 120 | -31 | 10 |
| 9 | Newtown | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 94 | 136 | -42 | 10 |