1908 Lancashire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout competition

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1907	Seasons	1909 >

The 1908 Lancashire Cup was the fourth year for this regional rugby league competition and saw a final between two previous cup winners. The cup was won by Wigan who beat Oldham in the final at Wheater's Field, Broughton, Salford, by a score of 10-9. The attendance for the final was 20,000 and receipts £600.

Background

This format of the 1908 competition was the same as the previous year, there were the same 12 semi-professional clubs entered and four clubs awarded byes in the first round.

The tournament saw several replays. In the first round Broughton Rangers played Runcorn three times, the first two matches both ending in draws. In the quarter-finals Wigan and Leigh also played each other three times. The first game ended in a draw, in the second game the score finished 11-5 in favour of Wigan, but Leigh complained to the governing body that a Wigan player had left the pithc without the referee's permission. The complain was upheld, the result was declared void, and the teams had to meet again, this time Wigan triumphed 17-3.

Competition and Results

Source: ^[1]

Round 1

Involved 4 matches (with four byes) and 12 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Notes	Ref

1	Sat 7 November 1908	Oldham	20-5	Salford	Watersheddings
2	Sat 7 November 1908	Runcorn	5-5	Broughton Rangers	Canal Street
3	Sat 7 November 1908	St Helens	6-21	Warrington	Knowsley Road		^[2]^[3]
4	Sat 7 November 1908	Widnes	2-14	Wigan	Lowerhouse Lane		^[4]^[5]
5		Barrow		bye
6		Leigh		bye
7		Rochdale Hornets		bye
8		Swinton		bye
** First replay
9	Mon 9 November 1908	Broughton Rangers	8-8	Runcorn	Wheater's Field
** Second replay
10	Wed 11 November 1908	Runcorn	10-7	Broughton Rangers	Watersheddings	1

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Notes	Ref

1	Sat 21 November 1908	Barrow	3-5	Runcorn	Canendish Park
2	Sat 21 November 1908	Leigh	3-3	Wigan	Mather Lane		^[4]
3	Sat 21 November 1908	Oldham	28-3	Rochdale Hornets	Watersheddings
4	Sat 21 November 1908	Swinton	2-6	Warrington	Chorley Road ground		^[6]
** First replay
5	Mon 23 November 1908	Wigan	11-5	Leigh	Central Park	2	^[4]
** Second replay
6	Mon 30 November 1908	Wigan	17-3	Leigh	Central Park		^[4]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 5 December 1908	Oldham	26-7	Runcorn	Watersheddings
2	Sat 5 December 1908	Wigan	15-10	Warrington	Central Park	^[3]^[4]

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 19 December 1908	Wigan		10-9		Oldham	Wheater's Field	20000	£600-0-0	3 4	^[4]^[7]

Teams and scorers

Wigan^[4]	№	Oldham

	teams
Jim Sharrock	1	Alf Wood
Jim Leytham	2	George Tyson
Bert Jenkins	3	George William Smith
Lance Todd	4	Tom Llewellyn
Joe Miller	5	George Cook^[8]
Johnny Thomas	6	Tom White
Fred Gleave	7	William "Billy" Dixon^[9]
Jack Barton	8	Albert Avery
Walter Cheetham^[10]	9	Joe Ferguson
Massa Johnston	10	William Longworth
Dick Ramsdale	11	William "Billy" Nansen^[11]
Dick Silcock	12	Arthur Smith
Thomas Whittaker	13	James "Jimmy" Wright^[12]

10	score	9
5	HT	7

	Scorers
	Tries
Massa Johnston (1)	T	George Cook (1)
Johnny Thomas (1)	T
	Goals
Jim Sharrock (1)	G	Alf Wood (3)
Jim Leytham (1)	G
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		Frank Renton (Hunslet)

The road to success

First Round

Second Round

Semi Finals

Final

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3 X 17

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Notes

1 * Watersheddings was the home ground of Oldham.

2 * This game was ordered to be replayed again as an objection by Leigh was upheld. Leigh had objected to a Wigan player leaving the pitch without the referee's permission (W. Johnson left the field without the permission of the ref to change his jersey). Wigan had won this game 11-5.^[4]

3 * Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992^[7] gives the attendance as 20,000 - but the Wigan official archives^[4] give the attendance as 21,000

4 * The Cliff was the home ground of Broughton Rangers from 1913 and until they moved out to Belle Vue in 1933. In 1938 Manchester United moved in and used it as both a match ground for academy teams etc. and a general a training ground. They purchased the ground outright in 1951 and downgraded it to Junior team use in the early 2000s.

References

Rugby league County Cup competitions

Lancashire Cup (1905–1992)	1905–1906 1906–1907 1907–1908 1908–1909 1909–1910 1910–1911 1911–1912 1912–1913 1913–1914 1914–1915 1915–1918: Competition not held 1918–1919 1919–1920 1920–1921 1921–1922 1922–1923 1923–1924 1924–1925 1925–1926 1926–1927 1927–1928 1928–1929 1929–1930 1930–1931 1931–1932 1932–1933 1933–1934 1934–1935 1935–1936 1936–1937 1937–1938 1938–1939 1939–1940 1940–1944: Competition not held 1945–1946 1946–1947 1947–1948 1948–1949 1949–1950 1950–1951 1951–1952 1952–1953 1953–1954 1954–1955 1955–1956 1956–1957 1957–1958 1958–1959 1959–1960 1960–1961 1961–1962 1962–1963 1963–1964 1964–1965 1965–1966 1966–1967 1967–1968 1968–1969 1969–1970 1970–1971 1971–1972 1972–1973 1973–1974 1974–1975 1975–1976 1976–1977 1977–1978 1978–1979 1979–1980 1980–1981 1981–1982 1982–1983 1983–1984 1984–1985 1985–1986 1986–1987 1987–1988 1988–1989 1989–1990 1990–1991 1991–1992 1992–1993

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1908 Lancashire Cup

Background

Competition and Results

Round 1

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Final

Teams and scorers

The road to success

Notes

See also

References