1959 Lancashire Cup

1959-60 Lancashire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1958	Seasons	1960 >

The 1959 Lancashire Cup was the forty-seventh occasion on which the competition had been held. Warrington won the trophy by beating St Helens by the score of 5-4.

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^[1]^[2]

Round 1

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

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Widnes	21-15	Barrow	Naughton Park			^[3]
2	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Leigh	12-12	Blackpool Borough	Hilton Park		1
3	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Salford	45-8	Liverpool City	The Willows
4	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Whitehaven	23-5	Oldham	Recreation Ground
5	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Wigan	39-20	Rochdale Hornets	Central Park			^[4]
6	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Swinton	9-17	St Helens	Station Road	14,000		^[5]
7	Sat 29 Aug 1959	Workington Town	12-33	Warrington	Derwent Park			^[6]
8		blank		blank

Round 1 - Replay

Involved 1 match

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

1	Thu 03 Sep 1959	Blackpool Borough		7-13		Leigh	St Anne's Road Greyhound Stadium

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Ref

1	Mon 07 Sep 1959	Wigan	39-15	Salford	Central Park		^[4]
2	Wed 09 Sep 1959	Leigh	2-27	Warrington	Kirkhall Lane		^[6]
3	Wed 09 Sep 1959	Widnes	9-24	St Helens	Naughton Park	16,630	^[3]^[5]
4		Whitehaven		bye

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Tue 15 Sep 1959	Wigan	13-15	Warrington	Central Park			^[4]^[6]
2	Tue 29 Sep 1959	Whitehaven	2-18	St Helens	Recreation Ground	12,500	2	^[5]

Final

The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 39,237 and receipts were £6,424. This is the last time the attendance at a Lancashire Cup final would approach 40,000.

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 31 October 1959	Warrington		5-4		St Helens	Central Park	39,237	£6,424	1	^[2]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Teams and Scorers ^[5]^[6]

Warrington	№	St Helens

	teams
Eric Fraser	1	Austin Rhodes
Brian Bevan	2	Tom van Vollenhoven
	3	Doug Greenall
Albert Naughton (position uncertain)	4	Brian McGinn
	5	Jan Prinsloo
Bobby Greenough	6	Wilf Smith
	7	Alex Murphy
	8	Abe Terry
	9	Tom McKinney
	10	Alan Prescott
	11	Brian Briggs
	12	Dick Huddart
	13	Fred Terry

5	score	4
5	HT	4

	Scorers
	Tries
Brian Bevan (1)	T
	Goals
Eric Fraser (1)	G	Austin Rhodes (2)
Referee

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

The road to success

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


Wigan	39

Rochdale Hornets	20
		Wigan	39

		Salford	15
Salford	45

Liverpool City	8
				Wigan	13

				Warrington	15
Leigh	12-13

Blackpool Borough	7-12
		Leigh	7

		Warrington	13
Workington Town	12

Warrington	33
						Warrington	5

						St Helens	4
Whitehaven	23

Oldham	5
		Whitehaven

		bye
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				Whitehaven	2

				St Helens	18
Widnes	21

Barrow	15
		Widnes	2

		St Helens	27
Swinton	9

St Helens	17

Notes and comments

1 * The first Lancashie Cup match to be played since the stadium was renamed after the former chairman James Hilton
2 * The fixture date was given in the official St Helens archives^[5] as Wednesday 30 September - but RUGBY LEAGUE review^[1] gives the date as Tuesday 29 September
3 * 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

1 2 "Rugby League Project".
1 2 David Jack and Malcolm Gunn (1959). Empire News Football Annual 1959-60 - 73rd year. Empire News and Sunday Chronicle.
1 2 "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
1 2 3 "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
1 2 3 4 5 "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897".
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

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