1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season

1949–50 Rugby Football League season

League

Northern Rugby Football League

Champions

Wigan

League Leaders

Wigan

Top point-scorer(s)

Harold Palin 290

Top try-scorer(s)

Brian Nordgren 57

< 1948–49	Seasons	1950–51 >

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]

Championship

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

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts
1	Wigan	36	31	1	4	63
2	Huddersfield	36	28	1	7	57
3	Swinton	36	25	4	7	54
4	Halifax	36	25	0	11	50
5	Salford	36	24	2	10	50
6	Leigh	36	24	1	11	49
7	St. Helens	36	23	2	11	48
8	Leeds	36	24	0	12	48
9	Dewsbury	36	23	0	13	46
10	Workington Town	36	22	1	13	45
11	Warrington	36	22	0	14	44
12	Castleford	36	20	0	16	40
13	Keighley	36	20	0	16	40
14	Wakefield Trinity	36	19	0	17	38
15	Hunslet	36	18	1	17	37
16	Widnes	36	16	4	16	36
17	Belle Vue Rangers	36	16	2	18	34
18	Oldham	36	15	4	17	34
19	Hull	36	15	3	18	33
20	Barrow	36	14	1	21	29
21	Bradford	36	14	1	21	29
22	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	14	1	21	29
23	Whitehaven	36	11	4	21	26
24	Batley	36	10	0	26	20
25	Featherstone Rovers	36	9	2	25	20
26	Bramley	36	6	1	29	13
27	Rochdale Hornets	36	5	2	29	12
28	York	36	6	0	30	12
29	Liverpool Stanley	36	4	0	32	8

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. Wigan won the final, claiming their seventh Rugby Football League Championship.

Semi-finals / semi-final reply			Championship Final


1 4	Wigan Halifax	5 5

1 4	Wigan Halifax	18 2
			Wigan	20

			Huddersfield	2
2	Huddersfield	9

3	Swinton	0

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.^[3]This was the second successive Final that the losing side had failed to score.^[4] The Warrington Scrum-half/Halfback Gerry Helme won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

Yorkshire Cup

Main article: 1949 Yorkshire Cup

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


Hull KR	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

References

↑ "1949-50 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
↑ Jon Henderson (2007). Best of British: Hendo's sporting heroes. UK: Yellow Jersey Press. p. 85. ISBN 9780224082488.
↑ news.bbc.co.uk (11 May 2004). "Cup final facts". BBC Sport. UK: BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
↑ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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