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1975–76 League Cup
StructureNational knockout championship
Teams32
WinnersWidnes
Runners-upHull F.C.

This was the fifth season for the League Cup, known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.

Widnes won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 19-13 in the final played at Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The attendance was 9,035 and receipts were £6275.

Background

This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.

Competition and results

[1][2][3]

Round 1 - First round

[4] Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 26 Sep 1975 Castleford 26-15 York Wheldon Road
2 Fri 26 Sep 1975 Mayfield 3-53 Salford The Willows 3449 1, 2, 3
3 Sat 27 Sep 1975 Barrow 16-9 Pilkington Recs Craven Park 612 4
4 Sat 27 Sep 1975 Wigan 30-7 Keighley Central Park [2]
5 Sat 27 Sep 1975 Workington Town 16-9 Bramley Derwent Park
6 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Batley 18-9 Whitehaven Mount Pleasant
7 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Blackpool Borough 11-36 St. Helens Borough Park [5]
8 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Bradford Northern 12-32 Wakefield Trinity Odsal [6]
9 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Doncaster 12-23 Hull F.C. Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield [7]
10 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Huddersfield 20-12 Warrington Fartown [8][9]
11 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Hull Kingston Rovers 33-10 Rochdale Hornets Craven Park (1)
12 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Huyton 14-20 Oldham Alt Park, Huyton
13 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Leigh 12-5 Featherstone Rovers Hilton Park
14 Sun 28 Sep 1975 New Hunslet 28-8 Halifax Elland Road Greyhound Stadium 5
15 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Swinton 7-23 Leeds Station Road
16 Sun 28 Sep 1975 Widnes 27-12 Dewsbury Naughton Park [10]

Round 2 - Second round

[11] Involved 8 matches and 16 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 7 Nov 1975 Hull Kingston Rovers 23-8 Leigh Craven Park (1) 6
2 Sat 8 Nov 1975 Wigan 5-18 Widnes Central Park [2][10]
3 Sun 9 Nov 1975 Huddersfield 14-5 Barrow Fartown [9]
4 Sun 9 Nov 1975 Hull F.C. 9-9 Leeds Boulevard [7]
5 Sun 9 Nov 1975 St. Helens 47-9 Batley Knowsley Road [5]
6 Sun 9 Nov 1975 Salford 46-3 Oldham The Willows
7 Sun 9 Nov 1975 Wakefield Trinity 14-24 Castleford Belle Vue [6]
8 Sun 9 Nov 1975 Workington Town 23-6 New Hunslet Derwent Park

Round 2 - Second round replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Thu 13 Nov 1975 Leeds 11-23 Hull F.C. Headingley [7]

Round 3 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 22 Nov 1975 Hull F.C. 9-8 St. Helens Boulevard [5][7]
2 Sun 23 Nov 1975 Huddersfield 10-19 Castleford Fartown [9]
3 Sun 23 Nov 1975 Hull Kingston Rovers 14-18 Widnes Craven Park (1) [10]
4 Sun 23 Nov 1975 Salford 16-8 Workington Town The Willows

[11]

Round 4 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 29 Nov 1975 Castleford 9-17 Widnes Wheldon Road [10]
2 Sat 13 Dec 1975 Salford 14-22 Hull F.C. The Willows [7]

[11]

Final

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 24 January 1976 Widnes 19-13 Hull F.C. Headingley 9035 6275 7 [7][10][12][13]

Teams and scorers

[12][13][14][15]

Widnes № Hull
teams
Ray Dutton 1 Mike Stephenson[1]
Alan Prescott[2] 2 Alf Macklin[3]
Derek "Mick" George[4] 3 George Clark[5]
Mal Aspey 4 Steve Portz[6]
David Jenkins[7] 5 Paul Hunter[8]
Eric Hughes 6 Brian Hancock[9]
Reg Bowden[10] 7 Ken Foulkes[11]
Jim Mills 8 Bill Ramsey
Keith Elwell 9 Peter Flanagan
John Wood 10 Alan Wardell[12]
John Foran[13] 11 Keith Boxall[14]
Barry Sheridan[15] 12 Malcolm Walker[16]
Mick Adams 13 Mick Crane
? Not used 14 ? Not used
? Not used 15 Chris Davidson[17] (for Ken Foulkes)
Coach
19 score 13
8 HT 8
Scorers
Tries
David Jenkins (2) T Paul Hunter (1)
Reg Bowden (1) T Mick Crane (2)
Mick Adams (1) T
Goals
Ray Dutton (3) G Keith Boxhall (2)
Drop Goals
Reg Bowden (1) DG
Referee J. V. Moss (Manchester)
Man of the match Reg Bowden - Widnes - scrum-half
Competition Sponsor Player's №6

Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

Prize money

As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-

Finish Position Cash Prize No. receiving prize Total Cash
Winner ? 1
Runner-up ? 1
semi-finalist ? 2
loser in Rd 3 ? 4 ?
loser in Rd 2 ? 8 ?
Loser in Rd 1 ? 16 ?
Loser in Prelim Round ? ? ?
Grand Total

The road to success

This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures

First Round Second Round Third Round Semi Finals Final
               
Huddersfield 20
Warrington 12
Huddersfield 14
Barrow 5
Barrow 16
Pilkington Recs 9
Huddersfield 10
Castleford 19
Bradford Northern 12
Wakefield Trinity 32
Wakefield Trinity 14
Castleford 24
Castleford 26
York 15
Castleford 9
Widnes 17
Hull Kingston Rovers 33
Rochdale Hornets 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 23
Leigh 8
Leigh 12
Featherstone Rovers 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 14
Widnes 18
Wigan 30
Keighley 7
Wigan 5
Widnes 18
Widnes 27
Dewsbury 12
Widnes 19
Hull F.C. 13
Mayfield 3
Salford 53
Salford 46
Oldham 3
Huyton 14
Oldham 20
Salford 16
Workington Town 8
Workington Town 16
Bramley 9
Workington Town 23
New Hunslet 6
New Hunslet 28
Halifax 8
Salford 14
Hull F.C. 22
Doncaster 12
Hull F.C. 23
Hull F.C. 9 (23)
Leeds 9 (11)
Swinton 7
Leeds 23
Hull F.C. 9
St. Helens 8
Blackpool Borough 11
St. Helens 36
St. Helens 47
Batley 9
Batley 18
Whitehaven 9

Notes and comments

1 * Mayfield are a Junior (amateur) club from Rochdale
2 * Although Mayfield were drawn at home, the match was moved to Salford
3 * Rothmans Rugby League Yearbooks 1990-1991 [12] and 1991-92[13] and Wigan official archives[2] give the score as 3-57, but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects[1] and The News of the World/Empire News annual 1976–77[3] give it as 3-53
4 * Pilkington Recs are a Junior (amateur) club from St Helens, home ground was City Road until they moved to Ruskin Drive from 2011-12
5 * Wigan official archives[2] gives the score as 25-8 but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects[1] gives it as 28-8
6 * Wigan official archives[2] gives the score as 23-3 but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects[1] and The News of the World/Empire News annual 1976–77[3] give it as 23-8
7 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.

General information for those unfamiliar

The council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's "League Cup". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. As this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the "League Cup"
The competition ran from 1971–72 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams. The competition was dropped due to "fixture congestion" when Rugby League became a summer sport The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January
The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971–1977), the John Player Trophy (1977–1983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983–1989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  3. ^ a b c Frank Butler and Patrick Collins (1976). News of the World Football Annual 1976–77 - 90th year. News of the World Ltd.
  4. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Round 1 results".
  5. ^ a b c "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
  6. ^ a b "I'm Wakefield 'til I die..."
  7. ^ a b c d e f "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  8. ^ "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  9. ^ a b c "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
  10. ^ a b c d e "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
  11. ^ a b c "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Round 2 on results".
  12. ^ a b c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  13. ^ a b c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  14. ^ "Widnes Stat Attack archived results".
  15. ^ "Hull RLFC official stats".
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