1956–57 Northern Rugby Football League season

1956–57 Rugby Football League season

League

Northern Rugby Football League

Champions

Oldham

League Leaders

Oldham

Top point-scorer(s)

Lewis Jones 496

Top try-scorer(s)

Billy Boston 60

< 1955–56	Seasons	1957–58 >

The 1956–57 Rugby Football League season was the 62nd season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Oldham finished the regular season as the league leaders and then won their fourth Rugby Football League Championship when they beat Hull 15-14 in the play-off final.

The Challenge Cup winners were Leeds who beat Barrow 9-7 in the final.^[1]

Oldham won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat St.Helens 10–3 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Hunslet 23–5 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts
1	Oldham	38	33	0	5	66
2	Hull	38	29	2	7	60
3	Barrow	38	29	0	9	58
4	Leeds	38	28	0	10	56
5	St Helens	38	25	3	10	53
6	Wigan	38	26	0	12	52
7	Hunslet	38	26	0	12	52
8	Wakefield Trinity	38	23	1	14	47
9	Huddersfield	38	23	0	15	46
10	Warrington	38	21	1	16	43
11	York	38	21	0	17	42
12	Halifax	38	21	0	17	42
13	Salford	38	19	2	17	40
14	Workington Town	38	20	0	18	40
15	Featherstone Rovers	38	19	0	19	38
16	Rochdale Hornets	38	19	0	19	38
17	Leigh	38	18	1	19	37
18	Whitehaven	38	18	1	19	37
19	Swinton	38	18	0	20	36
20	Keighley	38	17	1	20	35
21	Bradford Northern	38	17	0	21	34
22	Bramley	38	14	2	22	30
23	Widnes	38	15	0	23	30
24	Blackpool Borough	38	14	0	24	28
25	Castleford	38	11	2	25	24
26	Hull Kingston Rovers	38	11	2	25	24
27	Liverpool City	38	9	1	28	19
28	Batley	38	8	0	30	16
29	Dewsbury	38	5	1	32	11
30	Doncaster	38	3	0	35	6

	Play-offs

Play-offs

Semi-finals			Championship Final


1	Oldham	22

4	Leeds	12
			Oldham	15

			Hull	14
2	Barrow	14

3	Hull	45

Challenge Cup

Leeds beat Barrow 9-7 in the Challenge Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 76,318.

This was Leeds’ eighth Challenge Cup Final win in ten Final appearances.^[2]

The winning Leeds team line-up was:

Pat Quinn, Del Hodgkinson, Keith McLellan (c), Lewis Jones, George Broughton, Jr, John Lendill, Jeffrey "Jeff" Stevenson, Joe Anderson, Bernard Prior, William "Bill" Hopper, Bernard Poole, Don Robinson, Harry Street.^[3]

Jeff Stevenson, their scrum half back, was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for his man-of-the-match performance.

Barrow: Joe Ball, Jimmy Lewthwaite, Phil Jackson, John Rea, Frank Castle, Willie Horne, John "Dinks" Harris, George Woosey, Maurice Redhead, Reg Parker, Jack Grundy, Don Wilson, Bill Healey.

References

↑ "1956-57 season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "Leeds Cup Winning Line-up". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

Sources

1956-57 Rugby Football League season at Wigan.rlfans.com
The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

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