1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season

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1949–50 Rugby Football League season
LeagueNorthern Rugby Football League
Champions Wigancolours.svg Wigan
League Leaders Wigancolours.svg Wigan
Top point-scorer(s) Wolvescolours.svg Harold Palin 290
Top try-scorer(s) Wigancolours.svg Brian Nordgren 57

The 1949–50 Rugby Football League season was the 55th season of rugby league football. First placed Wigan successfully defended a challenge from second placed Huddersfield in the play-off final to claim the Rugby Football League Championship. The Challenge Cup winners were Warrington who beat Widnes 19-0 in the final. [1] Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Leigh 20–7 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Bradford beat Huddersfield 11–4 to win the Yorkshire Cup. Crowds peaked in 1949-50 with a record 69.8 million paying to watch rugby league matches. [2]

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Championship

This season the Rugby Football League Championship was determined by a final.

TeamPldWDLPts
1 Wigan 36311463
2 Huddersfield 36281757
3 Swinton 36254754
4 Halifax 362501150
5 Salford 362421050
6 Leigh 362411149
7 St. Helens 362321148
8 Leeds 362401248
9 Dewsbury 362301346
10 Workington Town 362211345
11 Warrington 362201444
12 Castleford 362001640
13 Keighley 362001640
14 Wakefield Trinity 361901738
15 Hunslet 361811737
16 Widnes 361641636
17 Belle Vue Rangers 361621834
18 Oldham 361541734
19 Hull 361531833
20 Barrow 361412129
21 Bradford 361412129
22 Hull Kingston Rovers 361412129
23 Whitehaven 361142126
24 Batley 361002620
25 Featherstone Rovers 36922520
26 Bramley 36612913
27 Rochdale Hornets 36522912
28 York 36603012
29 Liverpool Stanley 3640328

Play-offs

The top four finishing teams entered a play-off series which culminated in a final between Wigan and Huddersfield, but not before Wigan had to re-play and defeat Halifax, with whom they drew in their first play-off match.

Semi-final / Replay Championship final
        
1 Wigan 5 18
4 Halifax 5 2
Wigan 20
Huddersfield 2
2 Huddersfield 9
3 Swinton 0

Wigan were without eight of their regular starters for the final, as the players had been selected for the 1950 Great Britain Lions tour, and had already departed for Australia. [3] Despite a weakened team, Wigan were able to win, claiming their seventh Rugby Football League Championship.

Challenge Cup

Warrington beat Widnes 19-0 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 94,249. This was Warrington’s third Cup final win in nine Final appearances. In the match Albert Naughton, at centre for Warrington opposed his older brother Johnny, who was in the Widnes second row. [4] This was the second successive Final that the losing side had failed to score. [5] The Warrington scrum-half Gerry Helme won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

County cups

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Hull Kingston Rovers 10
Bramley 16
Bramley 5
Keighley 4
Keighley 60
Yorkshire Amateurs 10
Bramley 6
Bradford 8
York 22
Bradford 53
Bradford 13
Castleford 6
Castleford 25
Hull 21
Bradford 11
Huddersfield 4
Hunslet 7
Dewsbury 29
Dewsbury 12
Batley 5
Batley 17
Halifax 9
Dewsbury 2
Huddersfield 7
Huddersfield 29
Leeds 13
Huddersfield 20
Wakefield Trinity 12
Wakefield Trinity 31
Featherstone Rovers 14

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References

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  2. Jon Henderson (2007). Best of British: Hendo's sporting heroes. UK: Yellow Jersey Press. p. 85. ISBN   9780224082488.
  3. "Wigan Will Need Eight Reserves For Final" . Hull Daily Mail. 11 May 1950. p. 7 via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. news.bbc.co.uk (11 May 2004). "Cup final facts". BBC Sport. UK: BBC . Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  5. "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.