1949–50 Challenge Cup

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1949–50 Challenge Cup
Duration5 rounds
WinnersWolvescolours.svg Warrington
Runners-upWidnes colours.svg Widnes

The 1949–50 Challenge Cup was the 49th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.[1]

First Round[]

Date Team One Score One Team Two Score Two
04 Feb Barrow 5 Hull FC 10
04 Feb Batley 10 Castleford 9
04 Feb Belle Vue Rangers 20 Whitehaven 2
04 Feb Broughton Moor 5 Wakefield Trinity 28
04 Feb Cardiff 10 Salford 15
04 Feb Featherstone Rovers 19 Bramley 2
04 Feb Huddersfield 6 Dewsbury 9
04 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers 2 Warrington 12
04 Feb Leeds 14 Leigh 7
04 Feb Oldham 5 Bradford Northern 16
04 Feb St Helens 10 Halifax 6
04 Feb Swinton 24 Liverpool 10
04 Feb Widnes 15 Rochdale Hornets 2
04 Feb Workington Town 0 Keighley 5
04 Feb Boys Club 7 Hunslet 45
04 Feb York 2 Wigan 38
11 Feb Bradford Northern 6 Oldham 8
11 Feb Bramley 5 Featherstone Rovers 2
11 Feb Castleford 6 Batley 6
11 Feb Dewsbury 4 Huddersfield 2
11 Feb Halifax 2 St Helens 0
11 Feb Hull FC 0 Barrow 11
11 Feb Hunslet 18 Boys Club 9
11 Feb Keighley 4 Workington Town 3
11 Feb Leigh 7 Leeds 2
11 Feb Liverpool 9 Swinton 25
11 Feb Rochdale Hornets 0 Widnes 27
11 Feb Salford 20 Cardiff 5
11 Feb Wakefield Trinity 73 Broughton Moor 3
11 Feb Warrington 24 Hull Kingston Rovers 4
11 Feb Whitehaven 12 Belle Vue Rangers 0
11 Feb Wigan 65 York 15

Second Round[]

Date Team One Score One Team Two Score Two
25 Feb Barrow 6 Featherstone Rovers 2
25 Feb Belle Vue Rangers 6 Hunslet 17
25 Feb Leeds 7 Wigan 2
25 Feb Salford 2 St Helens 9
25 Feb Warrington 17 Swinton 2
02 Mar Batley 4 Widnes 12
06 Mar Bradford Northern 13 Keighley 2
06 Mar Wakefield Trinity 2 Dewsbury 2
08 Mar Dewsbury 10 Wakefield Trinity 15

Quarter Finals[]

Date Team One Score One Team Two Score Two
11 Mar Leeds 14 Wakefield Trinity 8
11 Mar St Helens 0 Bradford Northern 0
11 Mar Warrington 21 Hunslet 7
11 Mar Widnes 12 Barrow 7
15 Mar Bradford Northern 11 St Helens 0

Semi Finals[]

Date Team One Score One Team Two Score Two
01 Apr Warrington 16 Leeds 4
01 Apr Widnes 8 Bradford Northern 0

Final[]

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 , who was in the Widnes second row.[2] This was the second successive Final that the losing side had failed to score.[3] The Warrington scrum-half Gerry Helme won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

6 May 1950
Warrington 19 – 0 Widnes
Try Ryder, Bath, Knowelden
Goals Palin (3)
DG Palin 		[4]
Wembley, London
Attendance: 94,249
Referee: A S Dobson (Pontefract)
Player of the Match: Gerry Helme
1
2 Brian Bevan
3 Ron Ryder
4 Albert Naughton
5 Albert E. Johnson
6 Bryn Knowelden
7 Gerry Helme
8 William "Billy" Derbyshire
9
10
11 Harry Bath (c)
12 Gerry Lowe
13 Harold Palin
Coach:
Chris Brockbank
1 [5]
2 [6]
3 Colin Hutton
4 Tommy Sale (c)
5 xAustin 'Gus' Malone
6 Jackie Fleming
7 [7]
8 [8]
9 [9]
10 Fred Leigh[10]
11 [11]
12 [12]
13 [13]
Coach:

References[]

  1. ^ "Challenge Cup 1949/50". Rugby League Project.
  2. ^ news.bbc.co.uk (11 May 2004). "Cup final facts". BBC Sport. UK: BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  3. ^ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  4. ^ "OUR RUGBY FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT. "Rugby League Cup." Times [London, England] 8 May 1950". The Times Digital Archive.
  5. ^ "Frank Bradley Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  6. ^ "John ParkesStatistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Harry 'Tich' Anderson Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Charlie Reynolds Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Johnny Naughton Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Fred Leigh Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Charlie Wilcox Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Robert Band Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  13. ^ "Ron Rowbottom Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv". rugby.widnes.tv. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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