1925 Lancashire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout competition

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1924	Seasons	1926 >

The 1925 Lancashire Cup was the eighteenth tournament in the history of this regional rugby league competition, and another new name was added to the trophy. This time it was the turn of Swinton, one of the founding members of the Northern Union, whose previous best had been as runners up to Oldham in 1910.

Background

The number of teams entering this year’s competition remained at 13 which resulted in 3 byes in the first round.

Competition and results ^[1]

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 10 October 1925	Leigh	10-7	Rochdale Hornets	Mather Lane
2	Sat 10 October 1925	Oldham	14-9	St Helens	Watersheddings	^[2]
3	Sat 10 October 1925	Wigan Highfield	6-7	Salford	Tunstall Lane
4	Sat 10 October 1925	Widnes	8-0	Widnes	Little Park, Roose	^[3]
5	Sat 10 October 1925	Wigan	14-10	Warrington	Central Park	^[4]^[5]
6		Broughton Rangers		bye
7		St Helens Recs		bye
8		Swinton		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Mon 19 October 1925	Oldham	8-5	Salford	Watersheddings
2	Wed 21 October 1925	Wigan	31-8	Broughton Rangers	Central Park	^[4]
3	Thu 22 October 1925	Barrow	8-6	Leigh	Little Park, Roose
4	Thu 22 October 1925	St Helens Recs	7-8	Swinton	City Road

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Mon 02 November 1925	Oldham	5-5	Wigan	Watersheddings	^[4]
2	Wed 04 November 1925	Swinton	22-3	Barrow	Chorley Road ground
Replay
3	Wed 11 November 1925	Wigan	52-3	Oldham	Central Park	^[4]

Final

The final was due to be played on Saturday, 21 November 1925 but was postponed due to bad weather, in this case fog. The weather during that short period was atrocious and in fact Wigan had 5 matches postponed due to either a waterlogged pitch, a frozen pitch, fog or other bad weather in the four week period from early November to early December. The final was eventually played on Wednesday 9 December 1925 and Swinton beat Wigan by 15-11. The match was played at The Cliff, Broughton, Salford. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts £1,116.

Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

Saturday 21 November 1925	Swinton	post	Wigan	The Cliff			1	^[4]
Wednesday 9 December 1925	Swinton	15-11	Wigan	The Cliff	17000	£1,115	2	^[4]^[6]

Teams and scorers

Swinton	№	Wigan^[4]

team unknown but maybe from	teams
A. Atkinson	1	Jim Sullivan
F. Beswick	2	Johnny Ring
H. Blewer	3	Tommy Howley
Christopher Brockbank	4	David Booysen
H. Entwistle	5	Attie van Heerden
Frank Evans	6	George Owens
John Evans	7	Danny Hurcombe
T. Halliwell	8	Wilf Hodder
Hector Halsall	9	Jack Bennett
B. Morris	10	Robert Ilsley
B. Price	11	George van Rooyen
William Rees	12	Frank Stephens
M. Strong	13	Jack Price

15	score	11
5	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
	T	Johnny Ring (3)
	Goals
	G	Jim Sullivan (1)
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		()\|

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

The road to success

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


St Helens Recs

bye
		St Helens Recs	7

		Swinton	8
Swinton

bye
				Swinton	22

				Barrow	3
Widnes	0

Barrow	8
		Barrow	8

		Leigh	6
Leigh	10

Rochdale Hornets	7
						Swinton	15

						Wigan	11
Wigan	14

Warrington	10
		Wigan	31

		Broughton Rangers	8
Broughton Rangers

bye
				Oldham	5(52)

				Wigan	5(3)
Oldham	14

St Helens	9
		Oldham	8

		Salford	5
Wigan Highfield	6

Salford	7

Notes

1 Match postponed due to fog
2 The Cliff was the home ground of Broughton Rangers from 1913 and until they moved out to Belle Vue in 1933.

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1925–26".
↑ "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1925–26".
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
↑ "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1925".
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

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