1968–69 Northern Rugby Football League season



























1968–69 Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Champions
Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds
League Leaders
Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds
Top point-scorer(s)
Rhinoscolours.svg Bev Risman 345
Top try-scorer(s)
Wigancolours.svg Bill Francis 40

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Seasons
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The 1968–69 Rugby Football League season was the 74th season of rugby league football.




Contents






  • 1 Season summary


  • 2 Championship


    • 2.1 Play-offs




  • 3 Challenge Cup


  • 4 References


  • 5 Sources





Season summary


Leeds had finished the regular season as League leaders for the third season in a row. They then won their second Championship when they beat Castleford 16-14 in the Championship Final. Bev Risman was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.


The Challenge Cup winners were Castleford who beat Salford 11-6 in the final.


The BBC2 Floodlit Trophy winners were Wigan who beat St. Helens 7-4 in the final.[1]


St. Helens won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. St. Helens beat Oldham 30–2 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Leeds beat Castleford 22–11 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.



Championship



























































































































































































































































































 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 Pts
1 Leeds 34 29 2 3 60
2 St. Helens 34 27 2 5 56
3 Wigan 34 25 2 7 52
4 Castleford 34 24 2 8 50
5 Swinton 34 23 0 11 46
6 Salford 34 19 5 10 43
7 Featherstone Rovers 34 21 1 12 43
8 Workington Town 34 21 0 13 42
9 Leigh 34 19 4 11 42
10 Hull Kingston Rovers 34 20 0 14 40
11 York 34 20 0 14 40
12 Wakefield Trinity 34 19 1 14 39
13 Hull 34 18 3 13 39
14 Widnes 34 19 1 14 39
15 Keighley 34 18 1 15 37
16 Oldham 34 18 0 16 36
17 Warrington 34 17 1 16 35
18 Halifax 34 16 2 16 34
19 Bradford Northern 34 16 0 18 32
20 Barrow 34 13 1 20 27
21 Rochdale Hornets 34 13 0 21 26
22 Dewsbury 34 12 1 21 25
23 Hunslet 34 11 0 23 22
24 Doncaster 34 11 0 23 22
25 Huddersfield 34 9 1 24 19
26 Batley 34 8 1 25 17
27 Huyton 34 8 0 26 16
28 Bramley 34 7 0 27 14
29 Blackpool Borough 34 7 0 27 14
30 Whitehaven 34 6 1 27 13




 

Champions


  

Play-offs


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 Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
 
                            
 
  
 
 
 Leeds 32
 
  
 
 Oldham 12
 
 Leeds 18
 
  
 
 Workington 10
 
 Workington 11
 
  
 
 Leigh 9
 
 Leeds 22
 
  
 
 Salford 12
 
 Wigan 26
 
  
 
 Widnes 10
 
 Wigan 21
 
  
 
 Salford 26
 
 Salford 13
 
  
 
 York 7
 
 Leeds 16
 
  
 
 Castleford 14
 
 Swinton 9
 
  
 
 Wakefield Trinity 5
 
 Swinton 8
 
  
 
 Castleford 50
 
 Castleford 14
 
  
 
 Hull 10
 
 Castleford 18
 
  
 
 St Helens 6
 Third place
 
 Featherstone Rovers 16
 
    
 
 Hull KR 5
 
 Featherstone Rovers 4  
 
  
 
 St Helens 47
  
 
 St Helens 25
 
 
 Keighley 7
 


Challenge Cup


Main article: 1968–69 Challenge Cup

Castleford beat Salford 11-6 in the final played at Wembley before a crowd of 97,939. Salford were captained by David Watkins.


This was Castleford’s second Cup Final win in two Final appearances.


To date, this was Salford’s last appearance in a Challenge Cup Final.[2]



References





  1. ^ "1968-69 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-08..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.




Sources



  • 1968-69 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com

  • The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website










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