1976–77 Northern Rugby Football League season

League

Northern Rugby Football League

Champions

Premiership

Top point-scorer(s)

Geoff Lloyd 341

Top try-scorer(s)

Stuart Wright 31

< 1975–76	Seasons	1977–78 >

The 1976–77 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 82nd season of rugby league football. Sixteen English clubs competed for the Championship, with Featherstone Rovers claiming the title.

Season summary

The League Champions were Featherstone Rovers for the first and, to date, only time. During the season, the Salford versus Leeds match was abandoned after 38 minutes when Chris Sanderson of Leeds suffered a fatal injury. Leeds were ahead 5-2, but the game was declared null and void and not replayed.

Rochdale Hornets, Leigh, Barrow and Oldham were demoted to the Second Division.

The Challenge Cup Winners were Leeds who beat Widnes 16-7 in the final.

Players No.6 Trophy Winners were Castleford who beat Blackpool Borough 25-15.

Rugby League Premiership Trophy Winners were St. Helens who beat Warrington 32-20.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Winners were Castleford who beat Leigh 12-4 in the final.

2nd Division Champions were Hull, and they, Dewsbury, Bramley and New Hunslet were promoted to the First Division.^[1]

Widnes beat Workington Town (from Cumbria) 16–11 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Leeds beat Featherstone Rovers 16–12 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

League Tables

First Division Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Featherstone Rovers	30	21	2	7	568	334	44
2	St. Helens	30	19	1	10	547	345	39
3	Castleford	30	19	1	10	519	350	39
4	Hull Kingston Rovers	30	18	1	11	496	415	37
5	Warrington	30	18	0	12	532	406	36
6	Salford	29	17	1	11	560	402	35
7	Wigan	30	15	2	13	463	416	32
8	Bradford Northern	30	15	2	13	488	470	32
9	Leeds	29	14	2	13	467	439	30
10	Widnes	30	15	0	15	403	393	30
11	Wakefield Trinity	30	13	2	15	487	480	28
12	Workington Town	30	13	1	16	352	403	27
13	Rochdale Hornets	30	11	0	19	367	449	22
14	Leigh	30	8	1	21	314	634	17
15	Barrow	30	8	0	22	345	628	16
16	Oldham	30	7	0	23	322	666	14

Second Division Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	Hull	26	22	1	3	599	238	45
2	Dewsbury	26	19	2	5	429	199	40
3	Bramley	26	19	0	7	464	377	38
4	New Hunslet	26	17	3	6	411	231	37
5	York	26	17	0	9	422	279	34
6	Keighley	26	16	1	9	486	235	33
7	Huddersfield	26	13	0	13	397	329	26
8	Whitehaven	26	11	1	14	290	346	23
9	Huyton	26	11	0	15	302	402	22
10	Halifax	26	10	0	16	301	429	20
11	Swinton	26	8	2	16	261	406	18
12	Batley	26	7	1	18	262	461	15
13	Blackpool Borough	26	5	1	20	233	464	11
14	Doncaster	26	1	0	25	243	704	2

Challenge Cup

Leeds beat Widnes 16-7 in the final played at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 7 May 1977 in front of a crowd 80,871. The winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was the Leeds prop, Steve Pitchford.^[2]

This was Leeds’ tenth Cup Final win in fourteen final appearances.^[3]

Leeds 16

Bryan Murrell
Alan Smith
Neil Hague
Les Dyl (1 try)
John Atkinson (1 try)
John Holmes
Kevin Dick (1 try, 3 goals, 1 drop goal)
Mick Harrison
David Ward
Steve Pitchford
Graham Eccles
Phil Cookson
Stanley Fearnley

Roy Dickinson on for Stanley Fearnley
David Smith on for Alan Smith

Widnes 7

Derek 'Mick' George on for Stuart Wright
John Foran on for Alan Dearden

Referee: Vince Moss (Manchester)^[4]

Sources

References

↑ "1976-77 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 199. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.

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