1964–65 Northern Rugby Football League season

1964–65 Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Champions Halifax
League Leaders St Helens
Top point-scorer(s) Len Killeen 360
Top try-scorer(s) Trevor Lake 40
< 1963–64 Seasons 1965–66 >

The 1964–65 Rugby Football League season was the 70th season of rugby league football.

Rule change

Season summary

1964-65 saw the two divisions of rugby league merge back into one single league. The championship play-offs returned to decide the champions. A new top 16 play-off format was introduced rather than top four system used between 1905–06 and 1962-63.

St.Helens had finished the regular season as league leaders. Halifax won their third Championship when they beat St.Helens 15-7 in the play-off final. Terry Fogerty was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.

Challenge Cup winners were Wigan who beat Hunslet 20-6 in the final.

Bradford Northern are resurrected and accepted back into the League.[2]

St.Helens won the Lancashire League, and Castleford won the Yorkshire League. St.Helens beat Swinton 12–4 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Leeds 18–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

Team Pld W D L Pts
1St. Helens34280656
2Wigan34260852
3Castleford34251851
4Wakefield Trinity34242850
5Warrington34241949
6Workington Town342311047
7Halifax342211047
8Hull Kingston Rovers342201244
9Oldham342011341
10Leeds342001440
11Swinton341911439
12Leigh341911439
13Hull341901538
14Hunslet341901538
15Featherstone Rovers341801636
16Barrow341801636
17Bradford Northern341511831
18Huddersfield341501930
19Widnes341421830
20Whitehaven341411929
21Dewsbury341321828
22Salford341122124
23Liverpool City341022222
24Bramley341012321
25York341002420
26Batley34912419
27Keighley34902518
28Doncaster34902518
29Rochdale Hornets34712615
30Blackpool Borough34622614

Play-offs

Round 1 Round 2 Semi-final Championship Final
            
St Helens 23
Barrow 7
St Helens 24
Hull Kingston Rovers 6
Hull Kingston Rovers 18
Oldham 14
St Helens 10
Wakefield Trinity 5
Wakefield Trinity 15
Hull 9
Wakefield Trinity 17
Warrington 8
Warrington 10
Leigh 4
St Helens 7
Halifax 15
Castleford 18
Hunslet 7
Castleford 11
Workington Town 3
Swinton 2
Workington Town 29
Castleford 18
Halifax 26
Featherstone Rovers 15
Wigan 8
Featherstone Rovers 6
Halifax 31
Halifax 28
Leeds 11

Challenge Cup

Wigan Posit. Hunslet
Ray Ashby1. FBBill Langton
Billy Boston2. WGJohn Griffiths
Eric Ashton (c)3. CEGeoff Shelton
Keith Holden4. CEAlan Preece
Trevor Lake5. WGBarry Lee
Cliff Hill6. SOBrian Gabbitas
Frank Parr7. SHAlan Marchant
Danny Gardiner8. PRDennis Hartley
Colin Clarke9. HKBernard Prior
Brian McTigue10. PRKen Eyre
Tony Stephens11. SRBill Ramsey
Roy Evans12. SRGeoff Gunney
Laurie Gilfedder13. LFFred Ward (c)
Kevin O'LoughlinSub.Arthur Render
Geoff LyonSub.Billy Baldwinson

Captain-coached by Eric Ashton,[3] Wigan beat Hunslet 20-16 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 89,016.

This was Wigan’s seventh Cup Final win in thirteen Final appearances.

To date, this was Hunslet’s last Challenge Cup Final appearance.[4]

References

  1. de la Riviere, Richard, ed. (2009), "Top ten: Rugby league rules", Rugby League World (Brighouse, UK: League Publications, published August 2009) (340), p. 61, ISSN 1466-0105
  2. "1964-65 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  3. news.bbc.co.uk (27 February 2004). "Cup heroes: Eric Ashton". BBC Sport (UK: BBC). Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  4. "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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