1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season

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1949–50 Rugby Football League season
LeagueNorthern Rugby Football League
Champions
 Wigan
League Leaders Wigan
Top point-scorer(s) Harold Palin 290
Top try-scorer(s) Brian Nordgren 57

The 1949–50

Leigh 20–7 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Bradford beat Huddersfield 11–4 to win the Yorkshire Cup. Crowds peaked in 1949-50 with a record 69.8 million paying to watch rugby league matches.[2]

Championship

This season the

Rugby Football League Championship
was determined by a final.

Team Pld W D L Pts
1 Wigan 36 31 1 4 63
2 Huddersfield 36 28 1 7 57
3 Swinton 36 25 4 7 54
4
Halifax
 36 25 0 11 50
5 Salford 36 24 2 10 50
6
Leigh
 36 24 1 11 49
7 St. Helens 36 23 2 11 48
8 Leeds 36 24 0 12 48
9 Dewsbury 36 23 0 13 46
10 Workington Town 36 22 1 13 45
11 Warrington 36 22 0 14 44
12 Castleford 36 20 0 16 40
13 Keighley 36 20 0 16 40
14 Wakefield Trinity 36 19 0 17 38
15 Hunslet 36 18 1 17 37
16 Widnes 36 16 4 16 36
17 Belle Vue Rangers 36 16 2 18 34
18 Oldham 36 15 4 17 34
19 Hull 36 15 3 18 33
20 Barrow 36 14 1 21 29
21 Bradford 36 14 1 21 29
22 Hull Kingston Rovers 36 14 1 21 29
23 Whitehaven 36 11 4 21 26
24 Batley 36 10 0 26 20
25 Featherstone Rovers 36 9 2 25 20
26
Bramley
 36 6 1 29 13
27 Rochdale Hornets 36 5 2 29 12
28
York
 36 6 0 30 12
29 Liverpool Stanley 36 4 0 32 8

Play-offs

The top four finishing teams entered a play-off series which culminated in a final between

Rugby Football League Championship
.

Semifinals / semi-final reply Championship final
      
1
4
Halifax
5
5
1
4
Halifax
18
2
Wigan 20
Huddersfield 2
2 Huddersfield 9
3 Swinton 0

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1949–50 Challenge Cup

Warrington beat Widnes 19-0 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 94,249. This was Warrington’s third Cup final win in nine Final appearances. In the match Albert Naughton, at centre for Warrington opposed his older brother Johnny, who was in the Widnes second row.[3] This was the second successive Final that the losing side had failed to score.[4] The Warrington scrum-half Gerry Helme won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

Yorkshire Cup

Main article:
1949 Yorkshire Cup
First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Hull Kingston Rovers 10
Bramley
16
Bramley
5
Keighley 4
Keighley 60
Yorkshire Amateurs 10
Bramley
6
Bradford 8
York
22
Bradford 53
Bradford 13
Castleford 6
Castleford 25
Hull 21
Bradford 11
Huddersfield 4
Hunslet 7
Dewsbury 29
Dewsbury 12
Batley 5
Batley 17
Halifax
9
Dewsbury 2
Huddersfield 7
Huddersfield 29
Leeds 13
Huddersfield 20
Wakefield Trinity 12
Wakefield Trinity 31
Featherstone Rovers 14

References

  1. ^ "1949-50 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  2. ISBN 9780224082488
    .
  3. ^ news.bbc.co.uk (11 May 2004). "Cup final facts". BBC Sport. UK: BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  4. ^ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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