1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season

1949–50 Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Champions Wigan
League Leaders Wigan
Top point-scorer(s) Harold Palin (Warrington) 290
Top try-scorer(s) Brian Nordgren (Wigan) 57
< 1948–49 Seasons 1950–51 >

The 1949–50 Rugby Football League season was the fifty-fifth season of rugby league football.

Contents

Season summary

Wigan won their seventh Championship when they beat Halifax 20-2 in the play-off final.

The Challenge Cup Winners were Warrington who beat Widnes 19-0 in the final.[1]

Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Leigh 20–7 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Bradford Northern beat Huddersfield 11–4 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

Championship

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 Northern 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

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

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

European championship

This was the tenth European Championship and was won for the fifth time by England on Points Average. This tournament saw the introduction of the Other Nationalities team, which was made up of players from Scotland and the southern hemisphere who played in the NRFU. The tournament also reverted to the single game round robin format.[4]

Results

19 September
 Other nationalities   13–7  England Workington
22 October
 Other nationalities   6–5  Wales Abertillery
12 November
 Wales  16–8  France Swansea
4 December
 England  13–5  France Bordeaux
15 January
 France  8–3   Other nationalities Marseilles
1 March
 England  11–6  Wales Wigan

Final standings

Team Played Won Drew Lost For Against Diff Points
 England 3 2 0 1 31 24 +7 4
  Other nationalities 3 2 0 1 22 20 +2 4
 Wales 3 1 0 2 27 25 +2 2
 France 3 1 0 2 21 32 −11 2

Sources

References

  1. ^ "1949-50 Season summary". http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=369. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
  2. ^ news.bbc.co.uk (11 May 2004). "Cup final facts". BBC Sport (UK: BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/challenge_cup/3705131.stm. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  3. ^ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. http://www.webcitation.org/5jpnxlTKy. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 
  4. ^ Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. 1995. p. 424. ISBN 0747278172. 
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