| Year: | 1922 |
| Competition: | New South Wales Rugby Football League |
| Teams: | 9 |
| Count: | 2nd |
| Mpcount: | 2nd |
| Matches: | 72 |
| Points: | 1841 |
| Top Point Scorer: | Harold Horder (151) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Cecil Blinkhorn (20) |
| Prevseason Link: | 1921 NSWRFL season |
| Prevseason Year: | 1921 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1923 NSWRFL season |
| Nextseason Year: | 1923 |
The 1922 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the fifteenth season of Sydney’s top-grade rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Nine teams from across the city contested the season which culminated in North Sydney’s victory over Glebe in the premiership final.[1]
After the clubs had played each other twice, Norths and Glebe were tied atop the points table. Instead of the points differential rule being implemented a Grand Final was held to determine the premier.
St George had another disappointing season, winning only two games against University and conceding 316 points averaging 19.75 per game.
| 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 | North Sydney | 16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 306 | 136 | +170 | 28 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Glebe | 16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 284 | 154 | +130 | 28 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Eastern Suburbs | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 217 | 177 | +40 | 24 | |||||||||||
| 4 | South Sydney | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 207 | 187 | +20 | 23 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Balmain | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 168 | 145 | +23 | 22 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Western Suburbs | 16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 164 | 201 | -37 | 16 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Newtown | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 169 | 200 | -31 | 15 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Sydney University | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 148 | 287 | -139 | 14 | |||||||||||
| 9 | St George | 16 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 140 | 316 | -176 | 8 | |||||||||||
The game was not as even as the ladder at the end of regular season would have suggested. Norths completely got away to a 10-0 lead at half-time and went on to demolish Glebe 35-3, taking their second consecutive premiership crown. The legendary Harold Horder scored twenty individual points in the match.
North Sydney 35 (Tries: Rule 2, Blinkhorn 2, Horder 2, Peters. Goals: Horder 7)
defeated
Glebe 3 (Try: E Summers)