1952β53 Lancashire Cup | |
---|---|
Structure | Regional knockout championship |
Teams | 14 |
Winners | Leigh |
Runners-up | St. Helens |
The 1952β53 Lancashire Cup was the fortieth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup competition was held.
Leigh won the trophy by beating
St. Helens by the score of 22β5.
The match was played at
Station Road, (
historically in the county of
Lancashire). The attendance was 34,785 and receipts were Β£5,793.
Overall, the number of teams entering this year's competition remained the same as last year's total of 14
The same pre-war fixture format was retained. This season saw no bye but one "blank" or "dummy" fixture in the first round. There was also one bye but no "blank" fixture" in the second round.
As last season, all the first round matches of the competition will be played on the basis of two legged, home and away, ties β and the remainder of the rounds remaining on straight forward knock-out basis.
Involved 7 matches (with no bye and one "blank" fixture) and 14 clubs
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Barrow | 21β24 | St. Helens | Craven Park | 12,000 | [2] | |||||
2 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Oldham | 25β6 | Swinton | Watersheddings | |||||||
3 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Liverpool City | 14β58 | Workington Town | Mill Yard, Knotty Ash | |||||||
4 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Rochdale Hornets | 21β16 | Belle Vue Rangers | Athletic Grounds | |||||||
5 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Salford | 17β19 | Warrington | The Willows | [3] | ||||||
6 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Whitehaven | 4β15 | Leigh | Recreation Ground | |||||||
7 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Widnes | 15β24 | Wigan | Naughton Park | [4] [5] | ||||||
8 | blank | blank |
Involved 7 matches (with no bye and one "blank" fixture) and 14 clubs. These are the reverse fixture from the first leg
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | St. Helens | 23β5 | Barrow | Knowsley Road | 47β26 | 19,000 | [2] | ||||
2 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Swinton | 18β19 | Oldham | Station Road | 24β44 | ||||||
3 | Mon 01 Sep 1952 | Workington Town | 29β18 | Liverpool City | Borough Park | 87β32 | ||||||
4 | Mon 01 Sep 1952 | Belle Vue Rangers | 7β17 | Rochdale Hornets | Belle Vue Stadium | 23β38 | ||||||
5 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Warrington | 30β8 | Salford | Wilderspool | 49β25 | [3] | |||||
6 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Leigh | 43β2 | Whitehaven | Kirkhall Lane | 58β6 | ||||||
7 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Wigan | 38β5 | Widnes | Central Park | 62β20 | [4] [5] | |||||
8 | blank | blank |
Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mon 22 Sep 1952 | Leigh | 19β8 | Wigan | Kirkhall Lane | [4] | ||||||
2 | Tue 23 Sep 1952 | St. Helens | 31β7 | Rochdale Hornets | Knowsley Road | 16,957 | [2] | |||||
3 | Wed 24 Sep 1952 | Workington Town | 13β10 | Oldham | Borough Park | |||||||
4 | Warrington | bye | [3] |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mon 13 Oct 1952 | Workington Town | 9β13 | Leigh | Borough Park | |||||||
2 | Tue 14 Oct 1952 | Warrington | 10β17 | St. Helens | Wilderspool | 28,800 | [2] [3] |
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saturday 29 November 1952 | Leigh | 22β5 | St. Helens | Station Road | 34,785 | Β£5,793 | 1 2 | [2] [6] |
Leigh | β | St. Helens |
---|---|---|
teams | ||
Jimmy Ledgard | 1 | Jimmy Lowe |
Brian Chadwick | 2 | Steve Llewellyn |
Trevor Allan | 3 | Doug Greenall |
Edward Kerwick | 4 | Don Gullick |
Frank Kitchen | 5 | Stan McCormick |
Ken Baxter | 6 | Jimmy Honey |
Tommy Bradshaw | 7 | George Langfield |
Harry Edden | 8 | Alan Prescott |
Joe Egan | 9 | Reg Blakemore |
Stan Owen | 10 | Bill Whittaker |
Charlie Pawsey | 11 | George Parsons |
Rex Mossop | 12 | Bill Bretherton |
Peter Foster | 13 | Ray Cale |
Joe Egan | coach | |
22 | score | 5 |
15 | HT | 2 |
Scorers | ||
Tries | ||
T | Don Gullick (1) | |
T | ||
T | ||
T | ||
Goals | ||
G | George Langfield (1) | |
G | ||
Drop Goals | ||
DG | ||
Referee | ||
Scoring β Try = three (3) points β Goal = two (2) points β Drop goal = two (2) points
All the first round ties were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
The first club named in each of the first round ties played the first leg at home.
The scores shown in the first round are the aggregate score over the two legs.
First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
Liverpool City | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||
Swinton | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Whitehaven | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Widnes | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 62 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Salford | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 45 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | |||||||||||||||||||
bye | |||||||||||||||||||
blank | |||||||||||||||||||
blank | |||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Barrow | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
Belle Vue Rangers | 23 |
1 * Attendance given in official
St. Helens archives as 34,541 β data given in Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991
[6] as 34,785
2 *
Station Road was the home ground of
Swinton from 1929 to 1932 and at its peak was one of the finest rugby league grounds in the country and it boasted a capacity of 60,000. The actual record attendance was for the Challenge Cup semi-final on 7 April 1951 when 44,621 watched
Wigan beat
Warrington 3β2
1952β53 Lancashire Cup | |
---|---|
Structure | Regional knockout championship |
Teams | 14 |
Winners | Leigh |
Runners-up | St. Helens |
The 1952β53 Lancashire Cup was the fortieth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup competition was held.
Leigh won the trophy by beating
St. Helens by the score of 22β5.
The match was played at
Station Road, (
historically in the county of
Lancashire). The attendance was 34,785 and receipts were Β£5,793.
Overall, the number of teams entering this year's competition remained the same as last year's total of 14
The same pre-war fixture format was retained. This season saw no bye but one "blank" or "dummy" fixture in the first round. There was also one bye but no "blank" fixture" in the second round.
As last season, all the first round matches of the competition will be played on the basis of two legged, home and away, ties β and the remainder of the rounds remaining on straight forward knock-out basis.
Involved 7 matches (with no bye and one "blank" fixture) and 14 clubs
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Barrow | 21β24 | St. Helens | Craven Park | 12,000 | [2] | |||||
2 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Oldham | 25β6 | Swinton | Watersheddings | |||||||
3 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Liverpool City | 14β58 | Workington Town | Mill Yard, Knotty Ash | |||||||
4 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Rochdale Hornets | 21β16 | Belle Vue Rangers | Athletic Grounds | |||||||
5 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Salford | 17β19 | Warrington | The Willows | [3] | ||||||
6 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Whitehaven | 4β15 | Leigh | Recreation Ground | |||||||
7 | Sat 30 Aug 1952 | Widnes | 15β24 | Wigan | Naughton Park | [4] [5] | ||||||
8 | blank | blank |
Involved 7 matches (with no bye and one "blank" fixture) and 14 clubs. These are the reverse fixture from the first leg
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | St. Helens | 23β5 | Barrow | Knowsley Road | 47β26 | 19,000 | [2] | ||||
2 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Swinton | 18β19 | Oldham | Station Road | 24β44 | ||||||
3 | Mon 01 Sep 1952 | Workington Town | 29β18 | Liverpool City | Borough Park | 87β32 | ||||||
4 | Mon 01 Sep 1952 | Belle Vue Rangers | 7β17 | Rochdale Hornets | Belle Vue Stadium | 23β38 | ||||||
5 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Warrington | 30β8 | Salford | Wilderspool | 49β25 | [3] | |||||
6 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Leigh | 43β2 | Whitehaven | Kirkhall Lane | 58β6 | ||||||
7 | Wed 03 Sep 1952 | Wigan | 38β5 | Widnes | Central Park | 62β20 | [4] [5] | |||||
8 | blank | blank |
Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mon 22 Sep 1952 | Leigh | 19β8 | Wigan | Kirkhall Lane | [4] | ||||||
2 | Tue 23 Sep 1952 | St. Helens | 31β7 | Rochdale Hornets | Knowsley Road | 16,957 | [2] | |||||
3 | Wed 24 Sep 1952 | Workington Town | 13β10 | Oldham | Borough Park | |||||||
4 | Warrington | bye | [3] |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mon 13 Oct 1952 | Workington Town | 9β13 | Leigh | Borough Park | |||||||
2 | Tue 14 Oct 1952 | Warrington | 10β17 | St. Helens | Wilderspool | 28,800 | [2] [3] |
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saturday 29 November 1952 | Leigh | 22β5 | St. Helens | Station Road | 34,785 | Β£5,793 | 1 2 | [2] [6] |
Leigh | β | St. Helens |
---|---|---|
teams | ||
Jimmy Ledgard | 1 | Jimmy Lowe |
Brian Chadwick | 2 | Steve Llewellyn |
Trevor Allan | 3 | Doug Greenall |
Edward Kerwick | 4 | Don Gullick |
Frank Kitchen | 5 | Stan McCormick |
Ken Baxter | 6 | Jimmy Honey |
Tommy Bradshaw | 7 | George Langfield |
Harry Edden | 8 | Alan Prescott |
Joe Egan | 9 | Reg Blakemore |
Stan Owen | 10 | Bill Whittaker |
Charlie Pawsey | 11 | George Parsons |
Rex Mossop | 12 | Bill Bretherton |
Peter Foster | 13 | Ray Cale |
Joe Egan | coach | |
22 | score | 5 |
15 | HT | 2 |
Scorers | ||
Tries | ||
T | Don Gullick (1) | |
T | ||
T | ||
T | ||
Goals | ||
G | George Langfield (1) | |
G | ||
Drop Goals | ||
DG | ||
Referee | ||
Scoring β Try = three (3) points β Goal = two (2) points β Drop goal = two (2) points
All the first round ties were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
The first club named in each of the first round ties played the first leg at home.
The scores shown in the first round are the aggregate score over the two legs.
First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
Liverpool City | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 87 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||
Swinton | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Whitehaven | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 58 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Widnes | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 62 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Salford | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 45 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | |||||||||||||||||||
bye | |||||||||||||||||||
blank | |||||||||||||||||||
blank | |||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Barrow | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
Belle Vue Rangers | 23 |
1 * Attendance given in official
St. Helens archives as 34,541 β data given in Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991
[6] as 34,785
2 *
Station Road was the home ground of
Swinton from 1929 to 1932 and at its peak was one of the finest rugby league grounds in the country and it boasted a capacity of 60,000. The actual record attendance was for the Challenge Cup semi-final on 7 April 1951 when 44,621 watched
Wigan beat
Warrington 3β2