1973–74 Northern Rugby Football League season

1973–74 Rugby Football League season

League

Northern Rugby Football League

Champions

Salford

Club Championship

Warrington

Top point-scorer(s)

David Watkins 438

Top try-scorer(s)

Keith Fielding 49

< 1972–73	Seasons	1974–75 >

The 1973–74 Rugby Football League season was the 79th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

1973-1974 saw two division rugby re-introduced. The Championship play offs were done away with and the league leaders were declared the champions. A "Club Championship" was played in place of the play offs but this was a one-off precursor to what became the end of season Premiership. It was a complicated format that involved sides from both divisions.

On 25 April, David Watkins of Salford scored the last of 929 points (41 tries, 403 goals) in a record run of scoring in 92 consecutive games for one club.^[1]

Keith Mumby made his début for Bradford Northern this season as the club's youngest ever player, aged 16. In a match against Doncaster this season he scored 12 goals and a try. He went on to become the club's record appearance holder, playing 576 games.^[2]

Salford won their fifth Championship. Oldham, Hull Kingston Rovers, Leigh and Whitehaven were demoted to the Second Division.

The Challenge Cup winners were Warrington who beat Featherstone Rovers 24-9 in the final.

The Player's No.6 Trophy winners were Warrington who beat Rochdale Hornets 24-17 in the final.

The Club Championship was won by Warrington who beat St. Helens 13-12 in the final.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy winners were Bramley who beat Widnes 15-7 in the final.

2nd Division Champions were: Bradford Northern, and they York, Keighley and Halifax were promoted to the First Division.^[3]

Wigan beat Salford 19–9 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 7–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

League Tables

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Salford	30	23	1	6	632	299	47
2	St Helens	30	22	2	6	595	263	46
3	Leeds	30	20	1	9	554	378	41
4	Widnes	30	18	1	11	431	329	37
5	Warrington	30	16	1	13	414	368	33
6	Dewsbury	30	16	1	13	389	474	33
7	Wakefield Trinity	30	16	0	14	470	411	32
8	Featherstone Rovers	30	14	2	14	443	397	30
9	Castleford	30	12	4	14	420	411	28
10	Rochdale Hornets	30	13	2	15	379	415	28
11	Wigan	30	12	3	15	427	364	27
12	Bramley	30	11	3	16	344	457	25
13	Oldham	30	12	1	17	341	494	25
14	Hull Kingston Rovers	30	9	2	19	428	552	20
15	Leigh	30	7	0	23	326	655	14
16	Whitehaven	30	7	0	23	308	634	14

Second Division

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Bradford Northern	26	24	2	607	221	48
2	York	26	21	5	429	219	42
3	Keighley	26	20	6	439	250	40
4	Halifax	26	18	8	460	298	36
5	Workington Town	26	17	9	421	310	34
6	Hull	26	16	10	465	256	32
7	Swinton	26	15	11	405	276	30
8	Batley	26	12	14	286	311	24
9	Barrow	26	11	15	214	291	22
10	Huddersfield	26	9	17	363	394	18
11	New Hunslet	26	7	19	272	418	14
12	Blackpool Borough	26	7	19	272	585	14
13	Doncaster	26	3	23	158	684	6
14	Huyton	26	2	24	182	460	4

	Champions		Promoted		Relegated

Challenge Cup

Warrington defeated Huddersfield, Huyton, Wigan and Dewsbury to get to the final against Featherstone Rovers.^[4] Captained by Alex Murphy, Warrington beat Featherstone Rovers 24-9 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 77,400.

This was Warrington’s fourth Cup Final win in ten Final appearances.^[1] Derek Whitehead, Warrington's full-back won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

References

1 2 Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
↑ "Bradford Bulls History". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "1973-74 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ "Victory parade for Wolves players". BBC News (UK: BBC). 30 August 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

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Salford Red Devils

Founded in 1873 Based in Salford, England

The Club	History Honours Players International representatives Coaches

Home grounds	New Barnes The Willows AJ Bell Stadium

Hall of Fame	Gus Risman Martin Offiah

League	Super League

Championships (6)	1913–14 1932–33 1936–37 1938–39 1973–74 1975–76

Challenge Cup (1)	1937–38

Other honours	4—time Rugby Football League Second Division Champions 1–time Divisional Champions 1—time BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Champions 5—time Lancashire Cup Champions 5—time Lancashire League Champions 2—time Northern Rail Cup Champions

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Affiliation	Rugby Football League (1896)

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