Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

1899–1900 Challenge Cup

Rugby league competition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

The 1900 Challenge Cup was the 4th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.[1]

Quick Facts Duration, Number of teams ...

The final was contested by Swinton and Salford at Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester[2] on Saturday 28 April 1900. Swinton won 16–8 in front of a crowd of 17,864.[3] The cup was presented by Mrs Smith, wife of the President of the Northern Union.[4]

Remove ads

First round

Summarize
Perspective

The 30 ties of the first round were all played on Saturday 17 March 1900. 64 teams had been in the draw but Holbeck and Bramley received byes as their opponents, Whitehaven Town and Rothwell respectively withdrew from the competition before the games were played.[5]

More information Home, Score ...

The two drawn matches were replayed on Tuesday 20 March; Batley beat Castleford 5–0 and Oldham beat Manningham 18–3.[6]

Remove ads

Second round

The second-round games were played on Saturday 24 March 1900.

More information Home, Score ...
Remove ads

Third round

The third round matches were played on Saturday 31 March 1900.

More information Home, Score ...

The Widnes v Bramley tie was replayed on Tuesday 3 April with Widnes winning 8–0.[9] Runcorn and Bradford replayed their game the following evening and drew again, this time 3–3.[10] With the quarter-finals to be played on the following Saturday, the two clubs had to play a second replay on the following, Thursday, evening. In this third meeting Runcorn came out on top 6–2 in a match played on neutral ground at Broughton Rovers.[11]

Quarter-finals

Saturday 7 April 1900 saw the four quarter final games played.

More information Home, Score ...

Leeds parish Church and Runcorn replayed the match on 11 April and Leeds Parish Church won 8–6.[13]

Semifinals

The semi finals were played on 14 April 1900

More information Home, Score ...

Final

Thumb
Handbill distributed at the final giving the names of the players and officials
More information Swinton, 16 – 8 ...
28 April 1900
Fallowfield, Manchester
Attendance: 17,864
Referee: F. Renton (Hunslet)[4]
1Alf Chorley
2Jack Lewis
3Bobby Messer
4Bob Valentine
5Vernon Hampson
6Dai Davies
7Joey Morgan
8Evan Vigors
9George Harris
10Jack Preston
11Dick Jones
12Jim Valentine
13Charlie Pollitt
14Jack Evans
15Ben Murphy
1Dan Smith
2Arthur Pearson
3Tom Williams
4E. T. Harter
5Herbert Hadwen
6Ben Griffiths
7Ivor Grey
8Hugh Shore
9Robert Shaw
10Pat Tunney
11Miles Gledhill
12William Brown
13George Fisher
14Jack Williams
15Jack Rhapps
Remove ads

Notes

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads