1929–30 Lancashire Cup

{{Infobox rugby football league season

| title = 1929–30 Lancashire Cup

| structure = Regional knockout competitionm

| season_champs = Warrington

| second_place = Salford

| prevseason_link = 1928 Lancashire Cup

| prevseason_year = 1928–29

| nextseason_link = 1930 Lancashire Cup

| nextseason_year = 1930–31

| no_of_teams = 13

}}

The 1929–30 Lancashire Cup was the 22nd occasion on which this regional rugby league competition had been held. Warrington won the trophy by beating Salford in the final by 15–2. The match was played at Central Park, Wigan. The attendance at the final was 21,012 and receipts £1,250.

Background

The number of teams entering this year's competition remained at 13 which resulted in 3 byes in the first round.

The semi-final clash between Salford and Swinton took two replays to decide. This resulted in Salford playing 5 matches (a semi-final, a league match, two replays and a final) within 11 days.

Competition and results

{{cite web|title=Rugby League Project|url= http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/lancashire-cup/results.html?page=2 }}

= Round 1 =

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

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1	Sat 12 October 1929	Barrow	12–0	Widnes	Little Park, Roose	{{cite web\|title=Widnes Vikings – History – Season In Review – 1929–30\|url=http://www.rugby.widnes.tv/seasonreview.php?mid=1929&smid=1929-30&mids=1929}}
2	Sat 12 October 1929	Broughton Rangers	9–10	St. Helens	The Cliff	{{cite web\|title=Saints Heritage Society – History – Season 1929–30\|url=http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9}}
3	Sat 12 October 1929	Leigh	3–6	Warrington	Mather Lane	{{cite web\|title=Warrington Wolves – Results Archive – 1929\|url=http://warringtonwolves.com/results-archive?y=1929}}
4	Sat 12 October 1929	Rochdale Hornets	15–11	Wigan Highfield	Athletic Grounds
5	Sat 12 October 1929	Wigan	5–10	Oldham	Central Park	{{cite web\|title=Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results\|url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=3234}}
6		St Helens Recs		bye
7		Salford		bye
8		Swinton		bye

= Round 2 – quarter-finals =

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1	Mon 21 October 1929	Oldham	8–2	St Helens Recs	Watersheddings
2	Wed 23 October 1929	St. Helens	8–8	Salford	Knowsley Road
3	Wed 23 October 1929	Swinton	38–3	Rochdale Hornets	Station Road	1
4	Thu 24 October 1929	Barrow	7–9	Warrington	Little Park, Roose
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5	Sat 30 October 1929	Salford	13–3	St. Helens	The Willows

= Round 3 – semi-finals =

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1	Mon 11 November 1929	Oldham	5–7	Warrington	Watersheddings
2	Wed 13 November 1929	Swinton	3–3	Salford	Station Road	2
colspan=9\|1st Replay
3	Mon 18 November 1929	Salford	0–0	Swinton	The Willows	2
colspan=9\|2nd Replay
4	Wed 20 November 1929	Swinton	0–8	Salford	The Cliff

= 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 23 November 1929

Warrington

15–2

Salford

Central Park

21,012

£1,250

2 3

{{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="Warrington"\|Warrington !width=60 abbr="Number"\|№ !width=280 abbr="Salford"\|Salford
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	Teams
Billy Holding	1	\|Gus Risman
Tommy Blinkhorn	2	Sid Boyd
Les Perkins (c)	3	Richard Manning
Billy Dingsdale	4	George Dobing
Thomas "Tubby" Thompson	5	Barney Hudson
William "Billy" Kirk	6	Sammy Miller
Tommy Flynn	7	Reg Meek
Jack Miller	8	Billy Williams
Alfred Peacock	9	Fred Shaw
Billy Cunliffe	10	Jack Muir
Frank Williams	11	\|Teddy Haines
Jesse Meredith	12	Alf Middleton
Charlie Seeling Jr.	13	Aubrey Casewell
		\|
15	score	2
7	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
William "Billy" Kirk (1)	T	\|
Jesse Meredith (1)	T	\|
Tommy Blinkhorn (1)	T	\|
	Goals
Billy Holding (3)	G	\|George Dobing
	Drop Goals
	DG	\|
Referee		()\|
		\|

Scoring – Try = three points; Goal = two points; Drop goal = two points

= The road to success =

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| RD1=First round

| RD2=Second round

| RD3=Semifinals

| RD4=Final

| RD1-seed01=

| RD1-team01=Wigan

| RD1-score01=5

| RD1-seed02=

| RD1-team02=Oldham

| RD1-score02=10

| RD1-seed03=

| RD1-team03=St Helens Recs

| RD1-score03=

| RD1-seed04=

| RD1-team04=bye

| RD1-score04=

| RD1-seed05=

| RD1-team05=Barrow

| RD1-score05=12

| RD1-seed06=

| RD1-team06=Widnes

| RD1-score06=0

| RD1-seed07=

| RD1-team07=Leigh

| RD1-score07=3

| RD1-seed08=

| RD1-team08=Warrington

| RD1-score08=6

| RD1-seed09=

| RD1-team09=Swinton

| RD1-score09=

| RD1-seed10=

| RD1-team10=bye

| RD1-score10=

| RD1-seed11=

| RD1-team11=Rochdale Hornets

| RD1-score11=15

| RD1-seed12=

| RD1-team12=Wigan Highfield

| RD1-score12=11

| RD1-seed13=

| RD1-team13=Broughton Rangers

| RD1-score13=9

| RD1-seed14=

| RD1-team14=St. Helens

| RD1-score14=10

| RD1-seed15=

| RD1-team15=Salford

| RD1-score15=

| RD1-seed16=

| RD1-team16=bye

| RD1-score16=

| RD2-seed01=

| RD2-team01=Oldham

| RD2-score01=8

| RD2-seed02=

| RD2-team02=St Helens Recs

| RD2-score02=2

| RD2-seed03=

| RD2-team03=Barrow

| RD2-score03=7

| RD2-seed04=

| RD2-team04=Warrington

| RD2-score04=9

| RD2-seed05=

| RD2-team05=Swinton

| RD2-score05=38

| RD2-seed06=

| RD2-team06=Rochdale Hornets

| RD2-score06=3

| RD2-seed07=

| RD2-team07=St. Helens

| RD2-score07=8(3)

| RD2-seed08=

| RD2-team08=Salford

| RD2-score08=8(13)

| RD3-seed01=

| RD3-team01=Oldham

| RD3-score01=5

| RD3-seed02=

| RD3-team02=Warrington

| RD3-score02=7

| RD3-seed03=

| RD3-team03=Swinton

| RD3-score03=3(0)(0)

| RD3-seed04=

| RD3-team04=Salford

| RD3-score04=3(0)(8)

| RD4-seed01=

| RD4-team01=Warrington

| RD4-score01=15

| RD4-seed02=

| RD4-team02=Salford

| RD4-score02=2

}}

Notes

References

{{cite book |editor-last=Saxton |editor-first=Irvin |title=History of Rugby League: No.35 1929–1930| publisher=League Publications |page=10}}

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