1914–15 Challenge Cup

1915 Challenge Cup
Duration	5 rounds
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	St Helens
	← 1914 ; 1920 → ;

Last updated January 01, 2025

The 1915 Challenge Cup was the 19th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.^[1]

First round

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
27 Feb	Barrow	15	Wakefield Trinity	8
27 Feb	Bradford Northern	2	Batley	0
27 Feb	Brighouse Rangers	0	Salford	26
27 Feb	Broughton Moor	6	Wardley	3
27 Feb	Broughton Rangers	14	Runcorn	4
27 Feb	Featherstone Rovers	0	St Helens	6
27 Feb	Halifax	6	Bramley	2
27 Feb	Hull FC	23	Dewsbury	2
27 Feb	Hull Kingston Rovers	10	Hunslet	0
27 Feb	Keighley	8	Askam	5
27 Feb	Leigh	0	Huddersfield	3
27 Feb	Oldham	5	Wigan	10
27 Feb	Warrington	5	Leeds	4
27 Feb	Widnes	13	St Helens Recs	4
27 Feb	Wigan Highfield	0	Swinton	2
27 Feb	York	0	Rochdale Hornets	0
02 Mar	Rochdale Hornets	19	York	2

Second round

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
13 Mar	Bradford Northern	3	Wigan	11
13 Mar	Broughton Rangers	8	Hull Kingston Rovers	5
13 Mar	Hull FC	22	Halifax	0
13 Mar	Keighley	22	Barrow	8
13 Mar	Rochdale Hornets	75	Broughton Moor	13
13 Mar	Swinton	0	St Helens	5
13 Mar	Warrington	2	Salford	11
13 Mar	Widnes	3	Huddersfield	29

Quarterfinals

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
27 Mar	Huddersfield	33	Salford	0
27 Mar	Keighley	2	St Helens	3
27 Mar	Rochdale Hornets	11	Hull FC	0
27 Mar	Wigan	11	Broughton Rangers	5

Semifinals

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
10 Apr	Huddersfield	27	Wigan	2
10 Apr	St Helens	5	Rochdale Hornets	5
24 Apr	St Helens	9	Rochdale Hornets	2

Final

Huddersfield defeated St. Helens 37–3 in the Challenge Cup Final, on 1 May, held at Watersheddings, Oldham before a crowd of 8,000.

This was Huddersfield's second Challenge Cup win in as many Final appearances.^[2]

At one point St Helens' players refused to enter the field of play unless promised bonuses for reaching the final were paid by the Committee^[3]

St Helens team - 1 Bert Roberts, 2 Tom Barton, 3 Jimmy Flanagan, 4 Tom White, 5 Henry Greenall, 6 Matt Creevey, 7 Fred Trenwith, 8 George Farrimond, 9 Sam Daniels – Try, 10 James Shallcross, 11 William Jackson, 12 Tom Durkin, 13 William Myers

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References

↑ "Challenge Cup 1914/15". Rugby League Project.
↑ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
↑ "William Myers". Saints Heritage Society. Retrieved 12 Sep 2020.

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[1] "Challenge Cup 1914/15". Rugby League Project.

[2] "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

[3] "William Myers". Saints Heritage Society. Retrieved 12 Sep 2020.

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1 H. Banks 2 Douglas Clark 3 Bert Ganley 4 Tom Gleeson 5 Ben Gronow 6 Robert Habron 7 E. Hayes 8 John Higson 9 Major Holland 10 E. Jones 11 Aaron Lee 12 Fred Longstaff 13 Stan Moorhouse 14 Johnny Rogers 15 Albert Rosenfeld 16 Arthur Swinden 17 George Todd 18 Harold Wagstaff (c) Coach: Arthur Bennett
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