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

Substitutes were introduced.^[1] They were initially only for players injured in the time up to and including half time.

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
1	St. Helens	34	28	0	6	56
2	Wigan	34	26	0	8	52
3	Castleford	34	25	1	8	51
4	Wakefield Trinity	34	24	2	8	50
5	Warrington	34	24	1	9	49
6	Workington Town	34	23	1	10	47
7	Halifax	34	22	1	10	47
8	Hull Kingston Rovers	34	22	0	12	44
9	Oldham	34	20	1	13	41
10	Leeds	34	20	0	14	40
11	Swinton	34	19	1	14	39
12	Leigh	34	19	1	14	39
13	Hull	34	19	0	15	38
14	Hunslet	34	19	0	15	38
15	Featherstone Rovers	34	18	0	16	36
16	Barrow	34	18	0	16	36
17	Bradford Northern	34	15	1	18	31
18	Huddersfield	34	15	0	19	30
19	Widnes	34	14	2	18	30
20	Whitehaven	34	14	1	19	29
21	Dewsbury	34	13	2	18	28
22	Salford	34	11	2	21	24
23	Liverpool City	34	10	2	22	22
24	Bramley	34	10	1	23	21
25	York	34	10	0	24	20
26	Batley	34	9	1	24	19
27	Keighley	34	9	0	25	18
28	Doncaster	34	9	0	25	18
29	Rochdale Hornets	34	7	1	26	15
30	Blackpool Borough	34	6	2	26	14

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 Ashby	1. FB	Bill Langton
Billy Boston	2. WG	John Griffiths
Eric Ashton (c)	3. CE	Geoff Shelton
Keith Holden	4. CE	Alan Preece
Trevor Lake	5. WG	Barry Lee
Cliff Hill	6. SO	Brian Gabbitas
Frank Parr	7. SH	Alan Marchant
Danny Gardiner	8. PR	Dennis Hartley
Colin Clarke	9. HK	Bernard Prior
Brian McTigue	10. PR	Ken Eyre
Tony Stephens	11. SR	Bill Ramsey
Roy Evans	12. SR	Geoff Gunney
Laurie Gilfedder	13. LF	Fred Ward (c)
Kevin O'Loughlin	Sub.	Arthur Render
Geoff Lyon	Sub.	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

↑ 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
↑ "1964-65 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ news.bbc.co.uk (27 February 2004). "Cup heroes: Eric Ashton". BBC Sport (UK: BBC). Retrieved 6 March 2011.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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