1991–92 Regal Trophy

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1991–92 League Cup
Regal Trophy logo
StructureNational knockout championship
Teams38
WinnersWidnes
Runners-upLeeds

This was the twenty-first season of rugby league's League Cup competition, known as the Regal Trophy for sponsorship purposes.

Widnes won the final, beating Leeds by the score of 24-0. The match was played at Central Park, Wigan. The attendance was 15,070.

Background

This season saw two "name" changes and one of the three junior clubs being replaced by a new league club. The number of entrants remained the same at thirty-eight.
The changes were :-
1 Runcorn Highfield became Highfield and now played at Hoghton Road Stadium in Sutton, a suburb of St Helens and home to St Helens Town A.F.C. (although signing a 99-year lease, the club moved on after 4½ years after a proposed rent increase made a stay unviable - Fulham became London Crusaders but were still nomadic, although playing many home matches at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre before settling at Barnet Copthall for season 1993-94
2 Scarborough Pirates joined the league and the competition (albeit for a very brief one season stay before going into administration), taking the place of one of the junior teams-
The preliminary round involved twelve clubs, to reduce the numbers to entrants to the first round proper to thirty-two.

Competition and Results[1][2]

Preliminary Round[3]

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Tue 29 Oct 1991 Rochdale Hornets 14-24 Widnes Spotland 2278 [4]
2 Tue 29 Oct 1991 Wigan 34-14 Dewsbury Central Park 5020 [2]
3 Thu 31 Oct 1991 Hull F.C. 22-7 Leigh Boulevard 2219 [5]
4 Sun 3 Nov 1991 Saddleworth 0-30 Workington Town Watersheddings 1650 1, 2
5 Sun 3 Nov 1991 Sheffield Eagles 36-8 Scarborough Pirates Don Valley Stadium 1226
6 Mon 4 Nov 1991 Leigh East 20-10 Chorley Borough (2) Hilton Park 1393 3, 4

Round 1 - First Round[6]

Involved 16 matches and 32 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 16 Nov 1991 Warrington 8-17 Leeds Wilderspool 4353 [7]
2 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Bradford Northern 76-0 Leigh East Odsal 1613 3
3 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Doncaster 21-20 Whitehaven Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield 693
4 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Halifax 46-4 Barrow Thrum Hall 4791
5 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Highfield 10-28 Carlisle Hoghton Road Stadium 180
6 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Huddersfield 10-32 St Helens Fartown 4239 [8][9]
7 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Hull KR 10-22 Castleford Craven Park (2) 3406
8 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Keighley Cougars 25-10 Hunslet Cougar Park 1155
9 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Nottingham City 11-42 Wakefield Trinity Harvey Hadden Stadium 916 [10]
10 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Oldham 16-10 London Crusaders Watersheddings 2182
11 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Ryedale-York 6-13 Sheffield Eagles Ryedale Stadium 1138
12 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Salford 74-10 Trafford Borough The Willows 1783
13 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Swinton 8-34 Wigan Station Road 4676 [2]
14 Sun 17 Nov 1991 Widnes 26-8 Workington Town Naughton Park 4917 [4]
15 Mon 18 Nov 1991 Hull F.C. 12-8 Batley Boulevard 2149 [5]
16 Tue 19 Nov 1991 Bramley 18-18 Featherstone Rovers McLaren Field 1643

Round 1 - First Round Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Thu 21 Nov 1991 Featherstone Rovers 44-8 Bramley Post Office Road 1617

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 Sat 23 Nov 1991 Hull F.C. 4-12 Leeds Boulevard 4359 [5]
2 Sun 24 Nov 1991 Bradford Northern 44-10 Sheffield Eagles Odsal 3118
3 Sun 24 Nov 1991 Carlisle 16-30 Widnes Gifford Park 1874 5 [4]
4 Sun 24 Nov 1991 Featherstone Rovers 64-18 Halifax Post Office Road 5462
5 Sun 24 Nov 1991 Oldham 18-24 St Helens Watersheddings 5814 [9]
6 Sun 24 Nov 1991 Wakefield Trinity 10-30 Salford Belle Vue 4577 [10]
7 Sun 24 Nov 1991 Wigan 32-8 Keighley Cougars Central Park 6052 [2]
8 Mon 25 Nov 1991 Castleford 38-6 Doncaster Wheldon Road 4145

Round 3 -Quarter Finals[12]

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 30 Nov 1991 Salford 24-14 Wigan The Willows 4608 [2]
2 Sun 1 Dec 1991 Leeds 24-4 Castleford Headingley 15409
3 Sun 1 Dec 1991 St Helens 30-12 Bradford Northern Knowsley Road 8641 [9]
4 Sun 1 Dec 1991 Widnes 34-22 Featherstone Rovers Naughton Park 6551 [4]

Round 4 – Semi-Finals[12]

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 7 Dec 1991 Leeds 22-15 Salford Valley Parade 7275 6
2 Sat 21 Dec 1991 Widnes 18-10 St Helens Central Park 6376 [4][9]

Final


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 11 January 1992 Widnes 24-0 Leeds Central Park 15070 7, 8 [4][12]

Teams and Scorers[13]

Widnes № Leeds
teams
Alan Tait 1
John Devereux 2
Andy Currier 3
Darren Wright 4
Mark Sarsfield[1] 5
Jonathan Davies 6
Barry Dowd[2] 7
Kurt Sorensen 8
Paul Hulme 9
David Smith 10
Harvey Howard 11
"Richie" Eyres 12
Les Holliday 13
Paul Atcheson 14
Joe Grima 15
Frank Myler Coach Doug Laughton
24 score 0
7 HT 0
Scorers
Tries
Jonathan Davies (1) T
Les Holliday (1) T
Alan Tait (1) T
Kurt Sorensen (1) T
Goals
Jonathan Davies {3) G
Drop Goals
Jonathan Davies (1) DG
Les Holliday (1) DG
Referee Brian Galtress (Bradford)
Man of the match ? - ? - ?
Competition Sponsor Regal

Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) 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

Note - the author is unable to trace the award amounts for this season. Can anyone help ?

The road to success

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Notes and comments

1 * Saddleworth Rangers are a Junior (amateur) club from Oldham
2 * Watersheddings was the home ground of Oldham
3 * Leigh East are a Junior (amateur) club from Leigh[14]
4 * Hilton Park was the home ground of Leigh
5 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives the attendance as 1,874 but Widnes official archives[4] gives it as 2,000
6 * Valley Parade was originally the home of Manningham Rugby League Football Club until 1903, when they changed name and codes and became Bradford City A.F.C.
7 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives the attendance as 15,070 but Widnes official archives[4] gives it as 15,023
8 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959

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 "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ a b c d e "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  3. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Prelim Rd archived results".
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
  5. ^ a b c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 1 archived results".
  7. ^ "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
  9. ^ a b c d "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
  10. ^ a b "Wakefield until I die".
  11. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 2 archived results".
  12. ^ a b c "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 3 onward archived results".
  13. ^ "Widnes Stat Attack archived results".
  14. ^ "Leigh East ARLFC".

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