1968 Challenge Cup final

1968 (1968) Challenge Cup Final ()
1968 Challenge Cup Final
11	10
Date	11 May 1968
Stadium	Wembley Stadium
Location	London, United Kingdom
Lance Todd Trophy winner	Don Fox, Wakefield Trinity
Referee	John Hebblethwaite
Attendance	87,100
Broadcast partners
Broadcasters	BBC Sport;
Commentators	Eddie Waring;
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The 1968 Challenge Cup Final also remembered as the Watersplash Final was a rugby league match contested between Leeds and Wakefield Trinity on 11 May 1968 at Wembley Stadium in London. It was the 67th final of English rugby league's primary cup competition, the Challenge Cup. The match was played in virtually unplayable conditions due to the state of the waterlogged pitch caused by heavy downpours both before and during the game.

The final is best remembered for Wakefield's Don Fox missing a conversion from in front of the posts in the last minute of the game, handing Leeds an 11–10 victory. It was the club's eighth Challenge Cup win, and the first since 1957. Fox was the winner of the Lance Todd Trophy, as he had already been voted as man of the match before his miss.^[1]

Match details

11 May 1968
15:00

Leeds	11 – 10	Wakefield Trinity
Try: Atkinson Goal: Risman (4)	Report	Try: Hirst (2) Goal: Fox (2)

Wembley, London
Attendance: 87,100
Referee: John Hebblethwaite (York)
Player of the Match: Don Fox


FB	1	Bev Risman
RW	2	Alan Smith
RC	3	Syd Hynes
LC	4	Bernard Watson
LW	5	John Atkinson
SO	6	Mick Shoebottom
SH	7	Barry Seabourne
PR	8	Mick Clark (c)
HK	9	Tony Crosby
PR	10	Ken Eyre
SR	11	Bill Ramsey
SR	12	Albert Eyre
LF	13	Ray Batten
Coach:
Roy Francis


FB	1	Gary Cooper
RW	2	Ken Hirst
RC	3	Ian Brooke
LC	4	Gert Coetzer
LW	5	Kenneth Batty
SO	6	Harold Poynton (c)
SH	7	Ray Owen
PR	8	David Jeanes
HK	9	George Shepherd
PR	10	Don Fox
SR	11	Bob Haigh
SR	12	Matthew McLeod
LF	13	David Hawley
Coach:
Ken Traill

References

^ Hadfield, Dave (26 August 2008). "Don Fox: Rugby league player famed for a missed kick in the Wembley mud". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2014.

External links

[1] Hadfield, Dave (26 August 2008). "Don Fox: Rugby league player famed for a missed kick in the Wembley mud". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2014.

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