1961–62 Lancashire Cup
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{{Infobox rugby football league season
| title = 1961–62 Lancashire Cup
| structure = Regional knockout championship
| season_champs = St. Helens
| season_champ_name = Winners
| runner-up_name = Runner-up
| second_place = Swinton
| prevseason_link = 1960 Lancashire Cup
| prevseason_year = 1960–61
| nextseason_link = 1962 Lancashire Cup
| nextseason_year = 1962–63
| no_of_teams = 14
}}
1961–62 was the forty-ninth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held. St. Helens won the trophy by beating Swinton by the score of 25–9.
The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 30,000, the last time the attendance at a Lancashire Cup final would reach 30,000, and receipts were £4,850.
This was the second of five consecutive Lancashire Cup final wins for St. Helens, and what is more, the second of the seven victories in a period of nine successive seasons.
It was also the second of Swinton’s three successive Lancashire Cup final runner-up positions.
Background
With again no invitation to a junior club this season, the total number of teams entering the competition remained the same at 14.
The same fixture format was retained, and due to the number of clubs this resulted in no bye but one “blank” or “dummy” fixture in the first round, and one bye in the second round
Competition and results
= Round 1 =
Involved 7 matches (with no bye but one “blank” fixture) and 14 clubs
= Round 2 - quarterfinals =
Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs
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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=30 abbr="Att" |Att !width=30 abbr="Rec" |Rec !width=20 abbr="Notes" |Notes !width=30 abbr="Ref" |Ref | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday 18 September 1961 | Salford | 22-10 | Blackpool Borough | The Willows | ||||||
| 2 | Thursday 21 September 1961 | Widnes | 9-5 | Wigan | Naughton Park | ||||||
| 3 | Monday 2 October 1961 | St. Helens | 30-7 | Oldham | Knowsley Road | 18,500 | |||||
| 4 | . | Swinton | bye |
= Round 3 – semifinals =
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
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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=30 abbr="Att" |Att !width=30 abbr="Rec" |Rec !width=20 abbr="Notes" |Notes !width=30 abbr="Ref" |Ref | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wednesday 4 October 1961 | Swinton | 10-5 | Widnes | Station Road | 13,250 | |||||
| 2 | Tuesday 10 October 1961 | St. Helens | 21-2 | Salford | Knowsley Road | 18,000 |
= 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 11 November 1961 | St. Helens | 25-9 | Swinton | Central Park | 30,000 | £4,850 | 1 | {{cite book|last=Raymond Fletcher and David Howes|title=Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100|year=1991|publisher=Queen Anne Press|isbn=0 35617852 8}} |
==Teams and scorers ==
{{cite web|title=Swinton Lions Tales|url=http://www.swintonlionstales.co.uk/index.php/site/view_gallery/8}}
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| width=280 abbr="St Helens"|St. Helens
!width=60 abbr="Number"|No. !width=280 abbr="Swinton"|Swinton | ||
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Austin Rhodes | 1 | Ken Gowers |
| Tom van Vollenhoven | 2 | Bernard McMahon |
| Ken Large [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15804] | 3 | Malcolm Cummings |
| Brian McGinn [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15953] | 4 | Bob Fleet |
| Mick Sullivan | 5 | John Speed |
| Wilf Smith [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16357] | 6 | George Parkinson |
| Alex Murphy | 7 | Albert Cartwright |
| Fred Leyland [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15843] | 8 | Arnold Thompson |
| Bob Dagnall | 9 | Trevor Roberts |
| Cliff Watson | 10 | Bill Bretherton |
| Ray French | 11 | Ken Roberts |
| Dick Huddart | 12 | Peter Norburn |
| Vince Karalius (c) | 13 | Albert Blan (c) |
| | | ||
| 25 | score | 9 |
| 9 | HT | 4 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Austin Rhodes (1) | T | Bill Bretherton (1) |
| Tom van Vollenhoven (1) | T | | |
| Ken Large (1) | T | | |
| Mick Sullivan (1) | T | | |
| Alex Murphy (1) | T | | |
| Goals | ||
| Austin Rhodes (5) | G | Albert Blan (3) |
| G | | | |
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | | | |
| Referee | R. Gelder (Wilmslow) | |
| | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
= The road to success =
{{16TeamBracket
| RD1=First round
| RD2=Second round
| RD3=Semifinals
| RD4=Final
| RD1-seed01=
| RD1-team01=St. Helens
| RD1-score01=43
| RD1-seed02=
| RD1-team02=Leigh
| RD1-score02=8
| RD1-seed03=
| RD1-team03=Barrow
| RD1-score03=3
| RD1-seed04=
| RD1-team04=Oldham
| RD1-score04=10
| RD1-seed05=
| RD1-team05=Liverpool City
| RD1-score05=14
| RD1-seed06=
| RD1-team06=Salford
| RD1-score06=16
| RD1-seed07=
| RD1-team07=Rochdale Hornets
| RD1-score07=3
| RD1-seed08=
| RD1-team08=Blackpool Borough
| RD1-score08=22
| RD1-seed09=
| RD1-team09=Swinton
| RD1-score09=18
| RD1-seed10=
| RD1-team10=Warrington
| RD1-score10=7
| RD1-seed11=
| RD1-team11=blank
| RD1-score11=
| RD1-seed12=
| RD1-team12=blank
| RD1-score12=
| RD1-seed13=
| RD1-team13=Widnes
| RD1-score13=54
| RD1-seed14=
| RD1-team14=Whitehaven
| RD1-score14=2
| RD1-seed15=
| RD1-team15=Workington Town
| RD1-score15=18
| RD1-seed16=
| RD1-team16=Wigan
| RD1-score16=30
| RD2-seed01=
| RD2-team01=St. Helens
| RD2-score01=30
| RD2-seed02=
| RD2-team02=Oldham
| RD2-score02=7
| RD2-seed03=
| RD2-team03=Salford
| RD2-score03=22
| RD2-seed04=
| RD2-team04=Blackpool Borough
| RD2-score04=10
| RD2-seed05=
| RD2-team05=Swinton
| RD2-score05=
| RD2-seed06=
| RD2-team06=bye
| RD2-score06=
| RD2-seed07=
| RD2-team07=Widnes
| RD2-score07=9
| RD2-seed08=
| RD2-team08=Wigan
| RD2-score08=5
| RD3-seed01=
| RD3-team01=St. Helens
| RD3-score01=21
| RD3-seed02=
| RD3-team02=Salford
| RD3-score02=2
| RD3-seed03=
| RD3-team03=Swinton
| RD3-score03=10
| RD3-seed04=
| RD3-team04=Widnes
| RD3-score04=5
| RD4-seed01=
| RD4-team01=St. Helens
| RD4-score01=25
| RD4-seed02=
| RD4-team02=Swinton
| RD4-score02=9
}}
Notes and comments
1 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9 Saints Heritage Society]
- [http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=319 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302024838/http://www.hullfc.com/FixturesAndResults.aspx?sg=12&gi=3 Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897]
- [http://www.rugby.widnes.tv/seasonreview.php?mid=1896&smid=1896-97&mids=1896 Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828182311/http://www.warringtonwolves.org/HistoryB.ink The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org]
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