Eight teams from across the city contested during the season which culminated in Eastern Suburbs' victory over Balmain in the grand final.

The Roosters were awarded a penalty on half way and Dick Dunn convinced his reluctant captain Ray Stehr that he could make the distance.

Dunn received Joe Jorgenson’s kick from the restart and booted the ball into touch five metres from the Balmain line.

Tricolours’ hooker George Watt won the scrum against the feed and Easts’ classy halves pairing of Sel Lisle and Wally O'Connell put on a move that saw Dunn score in the corner.

Dunn scored 19 of the Tricolours’ 22 points that day carrying with him for luck the sock of his fourteen-month-old daughter in his shorts pocket throughout the match.