1923–24 Lancashire Cup

{{Infobox rugby football league season

| title = 1923–24 Lancashire Cup

| structure = Regional knockout competition

| season_champs = St Helens Recs

| season_champ_name = Winners

| second_place = Swinton

| prevseason_link = 1922 Lancashire Cup

| prevseason_year = 1922–23

| nextseason_link = 1924 Lancashire Cup

| nextseason_year = 1924–25

| no_of_teams = 13

}}

The 1923–24 Lancashire Cup competition was the sixteenth competition in the regional Lancashire Cup tournament. The trophy was won by St Helens Recs who beat Swinton in the final at Central Park, Wigan, by a score of 17–0. The attendance was a new record for the competition final at the time, being 25,656 and receipts £1,450. The triumph by St Helens Recs was the first time the club had won the competition and also the first time that winning club were not one of the original clubs who formed the Northern Union.

Background

The number of teams entering this year's competition remained at 13, with again no junior/amateur team being admitted. This resulted in 3 byes in the first round.

The quarter-final match between Warrington and Widnes took three matches to finally decide, the second replay being held at Central Park.

Competition and results

{{cite web|title=Rugby League Project|url= http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/lancashire-cup/results.html }}

= Round 1 =

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

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1	Sat 13 October 1923	Rochdale Hornets	7–3	Wigan Highfield	Athletic Grounds
2	Sat 13 October 1923	St. Helens	5–0	Salford	Knowsley Road	{{cite web\|title=Saints Heritage Society – History – Season 1923–24\|url=http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9}}
3	Sat 13 October 1923	Warrington	15–2	Barrow	Wilderspool	{{cite web\|title=Warrington Wolves – Results Archive – 1923\|url=http://warringtonwolves.com/results-archive?y=1923}}
4	Sat 13 October 1923	Widnes	5–3	Leigh	Lowerhouse Lane	{{cite web\|title=Widnes Vikings – History – Season In Review – 1923–24\|url=http://www.rugby.widnes.tv/seasonreview.php?mid=1923&smid=1923-24&mids=1923}}
5	Sat 13 October 1923	Wigan	11–6	Broughton Rangers	Central Park	{{cite web\|title=Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results\|url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=3228}}
6		Oldham		bye
7		St Helens Recs		bye
8		Swinton		bye

= Round 2 – quarterfinals =

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1	Sat 27 October 1923	Oldham	15–5	Wigan	Watersheddings
2	Sat 27 October 1923	St Helens Recs	21–0	Rochdale Hornets	City Road
3	Sat 27 October 1923	St. Helens	5–5	Swinton	Knowsley Road
4	Sat 27 October 1923	Warrington	6–6	Widnes	Wilderspool
colspan=9\|1st Replays
5	Wed 31 October 1923	Swinton	21–8	St. Helens	Chorley Road ground
6	Thu 1 November 1923	Widnes	5–5	Warrington	Lowerhouse Lane
colspan=9\|2nd Replay
7	Mon 5 November 1923	Warrington	13–2	Widnes	Central Park

= Round 3 – semifinals =

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1	Sat 10 November 1923	St Helens Recs	13–11	Oldham	City Road
2	Sat 10 November 1923	Swinton	19–7	Warrington	Chorley Road ground	14,000

= Final =

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width=20 abbr="No" |Game No

!width=100 abbr="Date"|Fixture date

!width=150 abbr="Home team"|Home team

!width=5 abbr="space" |

!width=20 abbr="Score" |Score

!width=5 abbr="space" |

!width=150 abbr="Away team" |Away team

!width=150 abbr="Venue" |Venue

!width=45 abbr="Att" |Att

!width=60 abbr="Rec" |Rec

!width=20 abbr="Notes" |Notes

!width=30 abbr="Ref" |Ref

Saturday 24 November 1923

St Helens Recs

17–0

Swinton

Central Park

25,656

£1,450

{{cite book|last=Raymond Fletcher and David Howes|title=Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992|year=1991|publisher=Queen Anne Press|isbn=0 35617852 8}}

==Teams and scorers ==

width=280 abbr="St H Recs"\|St Helens Recs !width=60 abbr="Number"\|№ !width=280 abbr="Swinton"\| Swinton
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	teams
Tommy Dingsdale	1	Frank Pearson
J. Gormley	2	Frank Evans (rugby)\|Frank Evans
Jim Owen	3	Hector Halsall (c)
J. Pyke	4	Jack Evans
Joe Mc Comas	5	Chris Brockbank
Fred Halton	6	Albert Jenkins
Johnny Greenall (c)	7	Bryn Evans
R. Ramsdale	8	Miller Strong
J. Hughes	9	Henry Blewer
Harry Grundy	10	Harold Worsley
Tommy Smith	11	Harry Powell
Albert Fildes	12	Tom McCormick
Billy Mulvanney	13	Stan Howarth
J. Bate (reserve to travel)	14
F. Leyland (reserve to travel)	15
		\|
17	score	0
4	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Owen, Pyke, Greenall \|T	\|
	T	\|
	T	\|
	T	\|
	Goals
Pyke (2), Dingsdale (1) \|G	\|
	G	\|
	Drop Goals
	DG	\|
Referee		()\|
		\|

Scoring – Try = three (3) points – Goal = two (2) points – Drop goal = two (2) points

= The road to success =

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| RD1-seed09=

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| RD1-seed10=

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| RD1-seed11=

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| RD1-score11=

| RD1-seed12=

| RD1-team12=bye

| RD1-score12=

| RD1-seed13=

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| RD1-score13=15

| RD1-seed14=

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| RD1-score14=2

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| RD2-score03=15

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| RD2-score04=5

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| RD2-seed06=

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| RD2-seed07=

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| RD2-score07=6(5)(13)

| RD2-seed08=

| RD2-team08=Widnes

| RD2-score08=6(5)(2)

| RD3-seed01=

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| RD3-score01=13

| RD3-seed02=

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| RD3-score02=11

| RD3-seed03=

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| RD3-score03=19

| RD3-seed04=

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| RD4-seed01=

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Notes

1 Central Park was the home ground of Wigan

References

Category:RFL Lancashire Cup

Lancashire Cup