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1900–01 St Helens R.F.C. season

rugby league team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ4557705 ↗
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The 1900–01 season was St Helens' sixth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 27th in their history. In their lowest ever finish in a rugby league competition, coming only a year after their most fruitful one, the club finished 13th in the Lancashire Senior Championship, having two points docked for breach of professional rules in the process. In the Challenge Cup, the club were knocked out in the third round by Batley.

Lancashire Senior Championship

St Helens had 2 points deducted for a breach of the professional rules.

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This entry incorporates text from “1900–01 St Helens R.F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.