| Year: | 1929 |
| Competition: | New South Wales Rugby Football League |
| Teams: | 9 |
| Count: | 9th |
| Mpcount: | 8th |
| Matches: | 75 |
| Points: | 1942 |
| Top Point Scorer: | Jim Craig (86) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Alan Brady (11) |
| Prevseason Link: | 1928 NSWRFL season |
| Prevseason Year: | 1928 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1930 NSWRFL season |
| Nextseason Year: | 1930 |
The 1929 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 22nd season of Sydney's top-level rugby league football competition, Australia's first. During the season, which lasted from April until September, nine teams from across Sydney contested the premiership, culminating in a South Sydney's win over Newtown in the final.[1]
Half of the 1929 season was played without several of the League's top players who were selected to embark on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. South Sydney won their ninth premiership and fifth in succession, defeating Newtown in the Final.
At the end of 1929 Glebe exited the League[2] because of a lack of a home ground, poor results and primarily because the area they represented was no longer big enough to support a club.
| width=20 abbr="Position×" | width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Bye" | B | width=20 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=20 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=20 abbr="Points difference" | PD | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Sydney | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 296 | 104 | +192 | 31 | |||||||||||
| 2 | St. George | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 180 | 147 | +33 | 27 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Western Suburbs | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 258 | 153 | +105 | 26 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Newtown | 16 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 188 | 169 | +19 | 24 | |||||||||||
| 5 | North Sydney | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 194 | 211 | -17 | 19 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Balmain | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 213 | 259 | -46 | 17 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Eastern Suburbs | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 203 | 269 | -66 | 14 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Glebe | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 166 | 261 | -95 | 13 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Sydney University | 16 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 157 | 282 | -125 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=17% | Date and Time | width=17% | Venue | width=11% | Referee | width=7% | Crowd | |
| align=center colspan=7 | Minor Semi-Final | |||||||
| align=left | Newtown | 8–7 | align=left | St. George | 7 September 1929 | Earl Park | 7,000 | |
| align=center colspan=7 | Major Semi-Final | |||||||
| align=left | South Sydney | 22–10 | align=left | Western Suburbs | 7 September 1929 | Sydney Sports Ground | Lal Deane | 14,774 |
| align=center colspan=7 | Final | |||||||
| align=left | South Sydney | 30–10 | align=left | Newtown | 14 September 1929 | Sydney Sports Ground | Lal Deane | 16,360 |
| South Sydney | Position | Newtown |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Gilmour | ||
| WG | George Casey | |
| Carl Mork | ||
| CE | Charlie Hill | |
| Jack Kessey (c) | ||
| Vince Hughes | ||
| Alf Blair (c) | HB | Hans Mork |
| Charlie Pendergast | ||
| Tom Leamy | ||
| Ben Edwards | ||
| SR | Dave Waters | |
| Jack Davies | ||
| T Walsh | ||
| Coach | ||
The Whiticker/Collis reference quotes Sydney's Labor Daily[4] in praise of Souths' win: "Newtown faced inevitable defeat, and while the margin was large, it hardly demonstrated South Sydney's superiority. They were on top from the start and gave a scintillating display both in combination and individual effort. Alf Blair played probably the greatest game in his long career".
Brothers Alf and Frank O'Connor both scored tries for the winning Rabbitohs. The next time two brothers would each score a try in a premiership decider was when Brett and Glenn Stewart scored for Manly-Warringah in their 2011 NRL Grand Final win over New Zealand.
South Sydney 30 (Tries: Alf Blair 3, Reg Williams 3, Frank O'Connor, Alf O'Connor. Goals: Alf Blair 2, Reg Williams)
defeated
Newtown 10 (Tries: Ben Edwards 2. Goals: George Casey 2)