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1915 Challenge Cup
Duration5 rounds
Winners Huddersfield
Runners-up St Helens

The 1915 Challenge Cup was the 19th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.

First round

Date Team one Score one Team two Score two
27 Feb Barrow 15 Wakefield Trinity 8
27 Feb Bradford Northern 2 Batley 0
27 Feb Brighouse Rangers 0 Salford 26
27 Feb Broughton Moor 6 Wardley 3
27 Feb Broughton Rangers 14 Runcorn 4
27 Feb Featherstone Rovers 0 St Helens 6
27 Feb Halifax 6 Bramley 2
27 Feb Hull FC 23 Dewsbury 2
27 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers 10 Hunslet 0
27 Feb Keighley 8 Askam 5
27 Feb Leigh 0 Huddersfield 3
27 Feb Oldham 5 Wigan 10
27 Feb Warrington 5 Leeds 4
27 Feb Widnes 13 St Helens Recs 4
27 Feb Wigan Highfield 0 Swinton 2
27 Feb York 0 Rochdale Hornets 0
02 Mar Rochdale Hornets 19 York 2

Second round

Date Team one Score one Team two Score two
13 Mar Bradford Northern 3 Wigan 11
13 Mar Broughton Rangers 8 Hull Kingston Rovers 5
13 Mar Hull FC 22 Halifax 0
13 Mar Keighley 22 Barrow 8
13 Mar Rochdale Hornets 75 Broughton Moor 13
13 Mar Swinton 0 St Helens 5
13 Mar Warrington 2 Salford 11
13 Mar Widnes 3 Huddersfield 29

Quarterfinals

Date Team one Score one Team two Score two
27 Mar Huddersfield 33 Salford 0
27 Mar Keighley 2 St Helens 3
27 Mar Rochdale Hornets 11 Hull FC 0
27 Mar Wigan 11 Broughton Rangers 5

Semifinals

Date Team one Score one Team two Score two
10 Apr Huddersfield 27 Wigan 2
10 Apr St Helens 5 Rochdale Hornets 5
24 Apr St Helens 9 Rochdale Hornets 2

Final

The 1915 Huddersfield team with their season's trophy haul (Challenge Cup centre right)

Huddersfield defeated St. Helens 37–3 in the Challenge Cup Final, on 1 May, held at Watersheddings, Oldham before a crowd of 8,000.

This was Huddersfield's second Challenge Cup win in as many Final appearances.

At one point St Helens' players refused to enter the field of play unless promised bonuses for reaching the final were paid by the Committee

St Helens team - 1 Bert Roberts, 2 Tom Barton, 3 Jimmy Flanagan, 4 Tom White, 5 Henry Greenall, 6 Matt Creevey, 7 Fred Trenwith, 8 George Farrimond, 9 Sam Daniels – Try, 10 James Shallcross, 11 William Jackson, 12 Tom Durkin, 13 William Myers

References

  1. "Challenge Cup 1914/15". Rugby League Project.
  2. "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. "William Myers". Saints Heritage Society. Retrieved 12 Sep 2020.
Huddersfield squad1914–15 All Four Cups winners
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