1914 Auckland Rugby League season

It followed the 1913 Auckland Rugby League season where North Shore Albions were crowned senior champions for the first time.

[1] Interest in the competition continued to grow with 5,000 attending the 3 senior matches played at Victoria Park on 20 June.

[2] There were 3,000 in attendance at the North Shore Albions game versus City Rovers in the Round 8 clash at the Devonport Domain.

[5] Whilst attendances were spectacular at times there were still signs that the competition was in its infancy with teams often playing one or more men short.

The worst case being in the Round 9 match where Newton Rangers could only field eight players, with two spectators from the crowd later joining them as they were defeated by 43 points to 2 by North Shore Albions.

[4] Near the conclusion of the season a match was played at Victoria Park between a team of veterans and Auckland colts on 29 August.

[6] Teams which fielded sides in lower grades were the Northcote Ramblers, Hobsonville Pirates, Sunnyside (based in Devonport), Remuera United and Manukau.

The Auckland representative campaign got underway with a match versus the touring England team where the home side lost.

Otahuhu's beginning to senior rugby league got off to an inauspicious start when they began their match with just nine players.

After the injury to Bill Walsh, the New Zealand international, Charles Webb, was called back in to service in his old position at halfback for Ponsonby.

Edward Fox scored a try on full time to win the game for North Shore over City 8-6 at the Auckland Domain.

It was noted in the Auckland Star that Asher had been jeered when he took shots for goal by sections of the crowd which numbered in the thousands and which also encroached on the field several times.

The newspaper reports had brought up the lack of any fencing being an issue at these matches which were drawing large crowds at the Domain and Victoria Park each week.

Grafton secured their first ever senior grade win, with Karl Ifwersen scoring all of their 12 points from 2 tries, 2 conversions and a penalty.

The league was providing an official matchday program for sale at the games for three pence, however it was complained that the players were taking the field without numbers making the team lists near useless.

It was after referee William Wynyard had awarded Fincham's try that he saw the two players (Albert Asher and Bob Mitchell) "strangling each other".

Karl Ifwersen received an injury to his jaw the previous week but played in round 6 only to injure the area again.

George Gillett was granted a transfer from the Newton Rangers (where he was a life member) to the Ponsonby United club.

The match between North Shore and City was originally scheduled to take place at Victoria Park but was transferred to the Devonport Domain.

The newspapers did not bother recording the point scorers though they did mention that the Shore side gave everybody in the team a chance to kick for goal.

Ernie Bailey, one of the North Shore forwards dislocated his shoulder 15 minutes before full time but played on.

Whilst the draws were published in the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Star each Thursday, the results were only intermittently reported in the same newspapers on the Monday following games.