1976–77 Northern Rugby Football League season

1976–77 Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Champions Featherstone Rovers
Premiership St Helens
Man of Steel David Ward
Top point-scorer(s) Lloyd (Castleford) 341
Top try-scorer(s) Stuart Wright (Widnes) 31
< 1975–76 Seasons 1977–78 >

The 1976–77 Rugby Football League season was the eighty first season of rugby league football.

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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.

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 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

  1. Murrell
  2. A.Smith
  3. Hague
  4. Dyl (1 try)
  5. Atkinson (1 try)
  6. Holmes
  7. Dick (1 try, 3 goals, 1 drop goal)
  8. Harrison
  9. Ward
  10. Pitchford
  11. Eccles
  12. Cookson
  13. Fearnley
  • Dickinson on for Fearnley
  • D.Smith on for A.Smith

Widnes 7

  1. R.Dutton (2 goals)
  2. S.Wright
  3. Aspey (1 try)
  4. Eckersley
  5. D.O'Neill
  6. Hughes
  7. Bowden
  8. Ramsey
  9. Elwell
  10. Mills
  11. Dearden
  12. Adams
  13. Laughton
  • George on for S.Wright
  • Foran on for Dearden

Referee: V.Moss(Manchester)[4]

Sources

References

  1. ^ "1976-77 Season summary". http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=397. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
  2. ^ Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. 1995. p. 199. ISBN 0747278172. 
  3. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. http://www.webcitation.org/5maY85jiT. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 
  4. ^ Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. 1995. p. 193. ISBN 0747278172. 
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