1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 75th season of rugby league football in Britain.

1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season
LeagueNorthern Rugby Football League
Champions St. Helens
League Leaders Leeds
Top point-scorer(s) Colin Tyrer 385
Top try-scorer(s) John Atkinson 38

Rule change
  • Tactical substitutions were now allowed to occur after half time during a game, they had been permitted before half time since 1964.[1]

Season summary

Leeds had ended the regular season as league leaders for the fourth successive season. St. Helens won their fifth Rugby Football League Championship when they beat Leeds 24-12 in the final. Frank Myler was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.

The Challenge Cup winners were Castleford who beat Wigan 7-2 in the final.

Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League, to date this was the last season in which the Lancashire League and Yorkshire League titles were awarded, other than a break between the 1902–03 and 1906–07 seasons, and breaks for World War I and World War II, the Lancashire League and Yorkshire League titles had been awarded since the inaugural rugby league season of 1895–96.

Championship
Team Pld W D L Pts
1Leeds34300460
2Castleford34251851
3St. Helens342311047
4Wigan342301146
5Hull Kingston Rovers342221046
6Salford342211145
7Leigh342131045
8Featherstone Rovers342211145
9Swinton342041044
10Widnes342121144
11Hull342021242
12Bradford Northern341901538
13Whitehaven341821438
14Warrington341721536
15Huddersfield341711635
16Halifax341601832
17Batley341511831
18Bramley341411929
19Barrow341411929
20Rochdale Hornets341331829
21Wakefield Trinity341321928
22Dewsbury341312027
23Hunslet341312027
24Workington Town341222026
25Keighley341302126
26York341112223
27Doncaster34702714
28Huyton34532613
29Oldham34602812
30Blackpool Borough34602812
Champions Play-offs

Play-offs

Challenge Cup
Main article: 1969–70 Challenge Cup

Castleford beat Wigan 7-2 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 95,255.

This was Castleford’s third Cup Final win in three Final appearances and their second in successive years. It was also the lowest winning score in a Challenge Cup Final at Wembley.[2]

County cups
Main article: 1969–70 Lancashire Cup
Main article: 1969–70 Yorkshire Cup

Swinton beat Leigh 11–2 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Hull F.C. beat Featherstone Rovers 12–9 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy
Main article: 1969–70 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy

The BBC2 Floodlit Trophy winners were Leigh who beat Wigan 11-6 in the final.[3]

References
  1. de la Riviere, Richard, ed. (2009), "Top ten: Rugby league rules", Rugby League World, Brighouse, UK: League Publications (published August 2009), no. 340, p. 61, ISSN 1466-0105
  2. "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. "1969-70 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-08-08.

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