1997 RFL Division One

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RFL Division One
Rugby Football League Division One
Duration 20 Rounds
Number of teams 11
1997 Season
Divisional Premiership winners File:Giantscolours.svg Huddersfield Giants
Champions Hullcolours.svg Hull Sharks
Player of the year File:Giantscolours.svg Craig Weston
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The 1997 Division One Championship season was the second tier of British rugby league during the 1997 season. The competition featured eleven teams, with Hull Sharks winning the league, and Huddersfield Giants winning the Divisional Premiership.

Championship

The league was won by Hull Sharks, winning promotion to the Super League along with runners-up Huddersfield Giants. Huddersfield also won the Divisional Premiership final against Hull, with Craig Weston winning the Tom Bergin Trophy.

Widnes Vikings and Workington Town were both relegated to Division Two.

League table

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1 Hull Sharks 20 18 1 1 617 228 37
2 Huddersfield Giants 20 16 0 4 630 320 32
3 Keighley Cougars 20 11 1 8 428 332 23
4 Whitehaven Warriors 20 11 1 8 436 398 23
5 Wakefield Trinity 20 9 1 10 393 419 19
6 Dewsbury Rams 20 9 0 11 341 455 18
7 Featherstone Rovers 20 8 1 11 408 395 17
8 Hull Kingston Rovers 20 8 1 11 440 481 17
9 Swinton Lions 20 7 0 13 355 488 14
10 Widnes Vikings 20 6 0 14 282 579 12
11 Workington Town 20 4 0 16 320 555 8
Champions Promoted Relegated

Premiership

28 September 1997
Huddersfield Giants 18 – 0 Hull Sharks
Try: Davys, Bunyan, Cheetham
Goal: Cook (3)
Report
Old Trafford, Manchester
Referee/s: John Connolly (Wigan)
Man of the Match: Craig Weston

See also

References

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