Huddersfield ended the regular season with the best record and were trying for their third title in a row.

pay a then World Record £600 plus £14 per week for Billy Batten, a three-quarter at Hunslet.

At the end of the season, several of the Northern Rugby Football Union's players were selected to go on the 1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.

A Hull team featuring Billy Batten and Jim Devereux defeated Wakefield Trinity 6-0.

[4][5] Hull: 6 Tries: Jack Harrison, Alfred Francis Wakefield Trinity: 0 Half-time: 0-0 Attendance: 19,000 (at Thrum Hall, Halifax) Teams: Hull: Rogers, Jack Harrison, Billy Batten, Herb Gilbert, Alfred Francis, Jim Devereux, Billie Anderson, Tom Herridge, William Holder, Dick Taylor, Percy Oldham, Joe Hammill, Steve Darmody Wakefield Trinity: Leonard Land, Benjamin Johnson, William "Billy" Lynch, Thomas "Tommy" Poynton, Bruce Howarth, Jonty Parkin, William Milligan/Millican, Albert Dixon, Arthur Kenealy "Nealy" Crosland, William Beattie, Herbert Kershaw, Ernest Parkin, Arthur Burton