1962–63 Lancashire Cup

{{Infobox rugby football league season

| title = 1962–63 Lancashire Cup

| structure = Regional knockout championship

| season_champs = St. Helens

| season_champ_name = Winners

| runner-up_name = Runner-up

| second_place = Swinton

| prevseason_link = 1961 Lancashire Cup

| prevseason_year = 1961–62

| nextseason_link = 1963 Lancashire Cup

| nextseason_year = 1963–64

| no_of_teams = 14

}}

1962–63 was the fiftieth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.

St. Helens won the trophy by beating Swinton by the score of 7-4

The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 23,523 and receipts were £4,122

This was the third of five consecutive Lancashire Cup final wins for St. Helens, and what is more, the third of the seven occasions on which the club will win the trophy in the nine-year period.

It was also the third 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

{{cite web|title=Rugby League Project|url= http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/lancashire-cup/results.html?page=6 }}

= Round 1 =

Involved 7 matches (with no bye but one “blank” fixture) and 14 clubs

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1	Friday 7 September 1962	Whitehaven	2-11	Oldham	Recreation Ground
2	Saturday 8 September 1962	Blackpool Borough	32-9	Salford	St Anne's Road Greyhound Stadium
3	Saturday 8 September 1962	Rochdale Hornets	11-3	Barrow	Athletic Grounds
4	Saturday 8 September 1962	St. Helens	22-0	Liverpool City	Knowsley Road	11,500	{{cite web\|title=Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97\|url=http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9}}
5	Saturday 8 September 1962	Swinton	5-2	Widnes	Station Road	10,218	{{cite web\|title=Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97\|url=http://www.rugby.widnes.tv/seasonreview.php?mid=1896&smid=1896-97&mids=1896}}
6	Saturday 8 September 1962	Wigan	11-3	Warrington	Central Park		{{cite web\|title=Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results\|url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=3199}}{{cite web\|title=Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897 \|url=http://www.warringtonwolves.org/results-archive?y=1897 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706043029/http://www.warringtonwolves.org/results-archive?y=1897 \|archive-date=2010-07-06 }}
7	Saturday 8 September 1962	Workington Town	43-2	Leigh	Derwent Park
8		blank		blank

= Round 2 - Quarter-finals =

Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs

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1	Monday 17 September 1962	Workington Town	16-8	Wigan	Derwent Park
2	Tuesday 18 September 1962	Blackpool Borough	3-14	St. Helens	Blackpool	4,000
3	Tuesday 18 September 1962	Oldham	14-3	Rochdale Hornets	Watersheddings
4		Swinton		bye

= Round 3 – Semi-finals =

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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1	Tuesday 2 October 1962	Oldham	8-10	St. Helens	Watersheddings	14,000
2	Wednesday 3 October 1962	Swinton	24-5	Workington Town	Station Road	10,004

= Final =

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!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 27 October 1962

St. Helens

7-4

Swinton

Central Park

23,523

£4,122

{{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}}{{cite book|last=Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn|title=News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year|year=1977|publisher=News of the World Ltd}}

==Teams and scorers ==

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	teams
Kel Coslett	1	Ken Gowers
Tom van Vollenhoven	2	Bernard McMahon
John Donovan [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15223]	3	Frank Halliwell
Wilf Smith [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16357]	4	Alan Buckley
Mick Sullivan	5	John Speed
Billy Benyon	6	George Parkinson
Jeff Heaton	7	Albert Cartwright
Jack Arkwright [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=14808]	8	Ken Roberts
Bob Dagnall	9	Trevor Roberts
Cliff Watson	10	Ron Morgan
John Tembey	11	Peter Norburn
Dick Huddart	12	Dick Bonser
Bill Major [http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15887]	13	Albert Blan (c)
		\|
7	score	4
7	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Tom van Vollenhoven (1)	T	\|
	Goals
Kel Coslett (2)	G	Albert Blan (2)
	G	\|
	Drop Goals
	DG	\|
Referee		M. Coates (Pudsey)
		\|

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

= The road to success =

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| RD1-score10=2

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| RD1-team11=blank

| RD1-score11=

| RD1-seed12=

| RD1-team12=blank

| RD1-score12=

| RD1-seed13=

| RD1-team13=Workington Town

| RD1-score13=43

| RD1-seed14=

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| RD1-score14=2

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| RD1-team15=Wigan

| RD1-score15=11

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| RD1-score16=3

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| RD2-team01=Oldham

| RD2-score01=14

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| RD2-team02=Rochdale Hornets

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| RD2-team03=Blackpool Borough

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| RD2-team04=St. Helens

| RD2-score04=14

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| RD2-team05=Swinton

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| RD2-seed07=

| RD2-team07=Workington Town

| RD2-score07=16

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| RD2-score08=8

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| RD3-team01=Oldham

| RD3-score01=8

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| RD3-score02=10

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| RD3-score03=24

| RD3-seed04=

| RD3-team04=Workington Town

| RD3-score04=5

| RD4-seed01=

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| RD4-seed02=

| RD4-team02=Swinton

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}}

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

References

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]

Category:1962 in English rugby league

Category:RFL Lancashire Cup