1950–51 Northern Rugby Football League season

1950–51 Rugby Football League season
League	Northern Rugby Football League
Champions	Workington Town
League Leaders	Warrington
Top point-scorer(s)	Bert Cook 332
Top try-scorer(s)	Brian Bevan 68

The 1950–51 Rugby Football League season was the 56th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Workington Town won their first, and to date, only Championship when they beat Warrington 26-11 in the play-off final. Warrington had finished the regular season as the league leaders.

The Challenge Cup Winners were Wigan who beat Barrow 10-0 in the final.^[1]

Warrington won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Warrington 28–5 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Huddersfield beat Castleford 16–3 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts
1	Warrington	36	30	0	6	60
2	Wigan	36	29	1	6	59
3	Workington Town	36	27	0	9	54
4	Leigh	36	24	2	10	50
5	Leeds	36	24	0	12	48
6	St. Helens	36	22	1	13	45
7	Hunslet	36	22	1	13	45
8	Batley	36	21	1	14	43
9	Huddersfield	36	20	2	14	42
10	Wakefield Trinity	36	19	3	14	41
11	Halifax	36	20	0	16	40
12	Belle Vue Rangers	36	19	2	15	40
13	Dewsbury	36	19	2	15	40
14	Bradford Northern	36	19	0	17	38
15	Oldham	36	17	2	17	36
16	Keighley	36	16	3	17	35
17	Swinton	36	16	1	19	33
18	Hull	36	15	2	19	32
19	Salford	36	15	1	20	31
20	Barrow	36	14	2	20	30
21	Whitehaven	36	13	3	20	29
22	Rochdale Hornets	36	14	1	21	29
23	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	12	2	22	26
24	Bramley	36	11	3	22	25
25	Castleford	36	12	1	23	25
26	Featherstone Rovers	36	12	1	23	25
27	Widnes	36	10	1	25	21
28	York	36	8	1	27	17
29	Liverpool Stanley	36	2	1	33	5

Play-offs

	Semi-finals					Championship final
	1	Warrington	15
	4	Leigh	9
						Warrington		11
						Workington Town		26
	2	Wigan	5
	3	Workington Town	8

Challenge Cup

Main article: 1950–51 Challenge Cup

Wigan beat Barrow 10–0 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 94,262. This was Wigan's fourth Cup Final win in nine Final appearances. It was also the third successive final that the losing team had failed to score.^[2] Cec Mountford, Wigan's stand-off half back was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

European Championship

This was the eleventh European Championships and was won for the third time by France on points difference.^[3]

Results

14 October

England	22–4	Wales

Abertillery

11 November

England	14–9	France

Leeds

10 December

France	16–3	Other nationalities

Bordeaux

31 March

Other nationalities	27–21	Wales

Swansea

11 April

Other nationalities	35–10	England

Wigan

15 April

France	28–13	Wales

Marseilles

Final standings

Team	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	For	Against	Diff	Points
France	3	2	0	1	53	30	+23	4
Other nationalities	3	2	0	1	65	47	+18	4
England	3	2	0	1	46	48	−2	4
Wales	3	0	0	3	38	77	−39	0

Sources

• 1950-51 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
• The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

References

1. "1950-51 Season summary". Retrieved 2009-08-08.
2. "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
3. Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 424. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.