1961–62 Northern Rugby Football League season explained

1961–62 Northern Rugby Football League season
League:Northern Rugby Football League
Season Champs: Huddersfield
Season Champ Name:Champions
League Leaders: Wigan
League Leaders Name:League Leaders
Top Scorer: Neil Fox 456
Top Try Scorer: Billy Boston 51
Prevseason Link:1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season
Prevseason Year:1960–61
Nextseason Link:1962–63 Northern Rugby Football League season
Nextseason Year:1962–63

The 1961–62 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 67th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Huddersfield won their seventh Championship when they beat Wakefield Trinity 14–5 in the play-off final.

The Challenge Cup winners were Wakefield Trinity, who beat Huddersfield 12–6 in the final.

At the end of this season the league was split into two divisions, the top 16 in the league formed Division 1 and the bottom 14 formed Division 2.[1]

Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Wakefield Trinity won the Yorkshire League.

Championship

width=20 abbr="Position" width=175 Teamwidth=20 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=20 abbr="Won" Wwidth=20 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=20 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=20 abbr="Points" Pts
1Wigan36321365
2Wakefield Trinity36321365
3Featherstone Rovers36281757
4Huddersfield36252952
5Workington Town362501150
6Widnes362501150
7Leeds362501150
8Hull Kingston Rovers362401248
9St. Helens362301346
10Oldham362211345
11Swinton362111443
12Castleford362101542
13Bramley361941342
14Warrington361921540
15Halifax361831539
16Hull361811737
17Leigh361701934
18Barrow361412129
19Keighley361322128
20York361212325
21Salford361212325
22Whitehaven361122324
23Blackpool Borough361112423
24Rochdale Hornets36942322
25Hunslet361012521
26Batley36922520
27Dewsbury36822618
28Doncaster36812717
29Liverpool City36603012
30Bradford Northern36513011
 Play-offs

Play-offs

Final

Challenge Cup

See main article: 1961–62 Challenge Cup. Wakefield Trinity beat Huddersfield 12–6 in the Challenge Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 81,263.This was Wakefield Trinity's third Challenge Cup Final win in four Final appearances.[2] Neil Fox, their centre, was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for his man-of-the-match performance. This has been the only time in a Rugby League Challenge Cup Final that a place kick has not been converted. Fox dropped three goals for Wakefield Trinity, then worth two points each.

County cups

See main article: 1961–62 Lancashire Cup.

See main article: 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup. St. Helens beat Swinton 25–9 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Leeds 19–9 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1961-62 Season summary . 2009-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090826202027/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=382 . 2009-08-26 . live .
  2. Web site: RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour . 2009-08-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090403144113/http://www.therfl.co.uk/challengecup/page.php?areaid=65 . 2009-04-03 . dead .