1978–79 Northern Rugby Football League season

1978–79 Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Champions Hull Kingston Rovers
Premiership Leeds
Man of Steel Doug Laughton
Top point-scorer(s) Geoff "Sammy" Lloyd (Hull) 373
Top try-scorer(s) Steve Hartley (Hull KR) 35
< 1977–78 Seasons 1979–80 >

The 1978–79 Rugby Football League season was the eighty third season of rugby league football.

Contents

Season summary

Hull Kingston Rovers won their third Championship this season.

The Challenge Cup Winners were Widnes who beat Wakefield Trinity 12-3 in the final.

The Premiership Trophy Winners were Leeds who beat Bradford Northern 24-2 in the final.

The BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Winners were Widnes who beat St. Helens 13-7 in the final.

2nd Division Champions were Hull. New Hunslet, York and Blackpool Borough were also promoted to the First Division.[1]

Geoff 'Sammy' Lloyd of Hull equalled the club match record for scoring goals when he was successful 14 times in the match against Oldham on 10 September 1978. They were part of a club record 170 goals in a season, and a club record 369 points in a season.[2]

Widnes beat Workington Town (from Cumbria) 15–13 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Bradford Northern beat York 18–8 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

League Tables

First Division Championship

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1 Hull Kingston Rovers 30 23 0 7 616 344 46
2 Warrington 30 22 0 8 521 340 44
3 Widnes 30 21 2 7 480 322 44
4 Leeds 30 19 1 10 555 370 39
5 St Helens 30 16 2 12 485 379 34
6 Wigan 30 16 1 13 484 411 33
7 Castleford 30 16 1 13 498 469 33
8 Bradford Northern 30 16 0 14 523 416 32
9 Workington Town 30 13 3 14 378 345 29
10 Wakefield Trinity 30 13 1 16 382 456 27
11 Leigh 30 13 1 16 406 535 27
12 Salford 30 11 2 17 389 435 24
13 Barrow 30 9 2 19 368 536 20
14 Featherstone Rovers 30 8 1 21 501 549 17
15 Rochdale Hornets 30 8 0 22 297 565 16
16 Huddersfield 30 7 1 22 314 725 15

Second Division Championship

Team Pld W D L PF PA Pts
1 Hull 26 26 0 0 702 175 52
2 New Hunslet 26 21 1 4 454 218 43
3 York 26 17 1 8 426 343 35
4 Blackpool Borough 26 15 3 8 321 272 33
5 Halifax 26 15 2 9 312 198 32
6 Dewsbury 26 15 0 11 368 292 30
7 Keighley 26 12 2 12 357 298 26
8 Bramley 26 12 1 13 375 342 25
9 Oldham 26 10 1 15 297 435 21
10 Whitehaven 26 8 3 15 297 408 19
11 Swinton 26 7 2 17 349 452 16
12 Doncaster 26 7 0 19 259 547 14
13 Huyton 26 3 3 20 261 513 9
14 Batley 26 4 1 21 194 479 9 _
  Champions   Play-offs   Promoted   Relegated

Challenge Cup

Widnes beat Wakefield Trinity 12-3 in the final played at Wembley before a crowd of 94,218.[3]

This was Widnes’s fifth Cup Final Win in seven Final appearances. To date, this was Wakefield Trinity’s last appearance in a Challenge Cup Final.

The Wakefield Trinity Stand Off, David Topliss, won the Lance Todd Trophy.

References

  1. ^ "1978-79 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=399. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
  2. ^ "Hull F.C. History". http://www.hullfc.com/hullfc/contents/?page_id=20. Retrieved 2009-10-23. 
  3. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 

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