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1955–56 Challenge Cup

{{short description|Rugby league competition}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}

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|title = 1955–56 Challenge Cup

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|duration = 5 rounds

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|season = 1955–56

|season_champs = {{leagueicon|St Helens|16px}} St Helens

|season_champ_name = Winners

|second_place = {{leagueicon|Halifax|16px}} Halifax

|MVP = Alan Prescott

|MVP_link = Lance Todd Trophy

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|prevseason_link = 1954–55 Challenge Cup

|prevseason_year = 1954–55

|nextseason_link = 1956–57 Challenge Cup

|nextseason_year = 1956–57

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The 1955–56 Challenge Cup was the 55th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/challenge-cup-1955-56/results.html|title=Challenge Cup 1955/56|publisher=Rugby League Project}}

First round

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!width=250| Team one

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!width=250| Team two

!width=50| Score two

11 FebCastleford12Blackpool9
11 FebHuddersfield8Whitehaven4
11 FebHull FC4Leeds9
11 FebHunslet9Bradford Northern10
11 FebKeighley33Triangle Valve8
11 FebLeigh19Doncaster10
11 FebOldham31Dewsbury2
11 FebRochdale Hornets55Stanningley0
11 FebSt Helens15Warrington6
11 FebWakefield Trinity30Bramley10
11 FebWidnes10Halifax22
11 FebWigan24Featherstone Rovers11
11 FebWorkington Town16Salford0
11 FebYork2Barrow26
15 FebLiverpool13Hull Kingston Rovers5
15 FebSwinton18Batley0

Second round

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3 MarBarrow47Liverpool5
3 MarHalifax10Workington Town3
3 MarKeighley3Wigan12
3 MarLeeds12Oldham7
3 MarLeigh5Wakefield Trinity11
3 MarRochdale Hornets2Bradford Northern5
3 MarSt Helens48Castleford5
3 MarSwinton6Huddersfield8

Quarterfinals

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24 MarLeeds9Halifax14
24 MarSt Helens53Bradford Northern6
24 MarWakefield Trinity10Barrow14
24 MarWigan24Huddersfield2

Semifinals

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7 AprHalifax11Wigan10
7 AprSt Helens5Barrow5
11 AprSt Helens10Barrow5

Final

File:Wembley Stadium interior 1956.jpgIn the Challenge Cup tournament's final St. Helens faced Halifax. Played on 28 April 1956 at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 79,341, St Helens won 13-2.{{cite web|title=1956 Challenge Cup final|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/challenge-cup-1955/final/st-helens-vs-halifax/summary.html|work=rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates|access-date=2 January 2014}} This was Saints' first Challenge Cup final win in five Final appearances.{{cite web|url=http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65 |title=RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour |access-date=7 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403144113/http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65 |archive-date=3 April 2009 |url-status=dead }} Alan Prescott, their prop forward was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

The St Helens team was greeted enthusiastically upon their return to the North. After detraining at Liverpool the team's open-top coach ride to St Helens attracted an estimated 100,000 people despite pouring rain.{{cite book|last=Jeff Hill, Jack Williams|title=Sport and Identity in the North of England|date=1996|publisher=Keele University Press|location=UK|page=98 & 99|isbn=9781853310829|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2W27jWxgZQC}}

{{Rugbyleaguebox

|date = 28 April 1956

|time =

|team1 = St Helens

|score = 13 – 2

|team2 = Halifax

|points1 = Try Carlton, Llewellyn, Prescott
Goals Rhodes (2)

|points2 = Goals Griffiths

|stadium = Wembley, London

|attendance = 79,341 (HT 0-0)

|referee =

|manofmatch = Alan Prescott

|report = {{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS67458718&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Our Rugby Football Correspondent. "London Welsh Win Middlesex Seven-A-Sides." Times [London, England] 30 Apr. 1956|work=The Times Digital Archive}}

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1Glyn Moses
2Steve Llewellyn
3Duggie Greenall
4Brian Howard
5Frank Carlton
6Bill Finnan
7Austin Rhodes
8Alan Prescott (c)
9Len McIntyre
10Nat Silcock Jr.
11George Parsons
12Roy Robinson
13Vince Karalius
colspan=3|Coach:
colspan="4"| Jim Sullivan

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1{{sortname|Tyssul|Griffiths}}
2{{sortname|Arthur|Daniels}}
3{{sortname|Thomas|Lynch|Thomas Lynch (rugby player, born 1927)}}
4{{sortname|GeoffreyGeoffrey Palmer (rugby league)}} {{sortname|"Geoff"|Palmer|Geoff Palmer (rugby league)}}
5{{sortname|John|Freeman|John Freeman (rugby)}}
6{{sortname|Ken|Dean|Ken Dean (rugby league)}}
7{{sortname|Stan|Kielty}}
8{{sortname|Ken|Traill}}
9{{sortname|Albert|Fearnley}}
10{{sortname|Les|Pearce|Les Pearce (Welsh rugby)}}
11{{sortname|Jack|Wilkinson|Jack Wilkinson (rugby league)}}
12{{sortname|Alvin|Ackerley}} (c)
13{{sortname|John|Henderson|John Henderson (rugby league)}}
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References

{{Reflist}}

{{Challenge Cup}}

{{St. Helens - 1956 Challenge Cup Final winners}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:1955-56 Challenge Cup}}

Category:Challenge Cup

Challenge Cup