1991–92 Lancashire Cup
The 1991–92 Lancashire Cup was the seventy-ninth occasion on which the completion had been held. St. Helens won the trophy by beating Rochdale Hornets by the score of 24-14 in the final. The match was played at Wilderspool, Warrington, now in the County Palatine of Chester but (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 9,269 and receipts were £ ?
1991–92 Lancashire Cup | |
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Structure | Regional knockout championship |
Teams | 16 |
Winners | St. Helens |
Runners-up | Rochdale Hornets |
Background
The total entrants remained the same as last season, i.e. at 17.
This necessitated the need for a preliminary round (consisting of just 1 game). The first round (proper) then involved 16 clubs, thus removing the need of any “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.
Competition and results
Preliminary round
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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Sun 25 Aug 1991 | Workington Town | '27-18 | Widnes | Derwent Park | 3499 | 1 | [2] |
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | Highfield | 11-34 | Rochdale Hornets | Hoghton Road Stadium | 700 | 2 | ||||
2 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | Leigh | 59-12 | Chorley Borough (2) | Hilton Park | 2415 | |||||
3 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | London Crusaders | 10-38 | Wigan | Barnet Copthall | 1893 | 3 | [3] | |||
4 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | St. Helens | 104-12 | Trafford Borough | Knowsley Road | 4550 | 4 | [4] | |||
5 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | Salford | 22-16 | Warrington | The Willows | 3656 | [5] | ||||
6 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | Swinton | 21-22 | Oldham | Station Road | 3285 | |||||
7 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | Whitehaven | 12-44 | Carlisle | Recreation Ground | 873 | |||||
8 | Sun 15 Sep 1991 | Workington Town | '12-6 | Barrow | Derwent Park | 2721 |
Round 2 - Quarter-finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Thu 26 Sep 1991 | Rochdale Hornets | 25-18 | Salford | Spotland | 1829 | |||||
2 | Thu 26 Sep 1991 | St. Helens | 39-26 | Oldham | Knowsley Road | 7025 | [4] | ||||
3 | Thu 26 Sep 1991 | Wigan | 42-12 | Leigh | Central Park | 11153 | [3] | ||||
4 | Thu 26 Sep 1991 | Workington Town | 2-11 | Carlisle | Derwent Park | 4278 |
Round 3 – Semi-finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Thu 10 Oct 1991 | Rochdale Hornets | 19-6 | Carlisle | Spotland | 1842 | |||||
2 | Thu 10 Oct 1991 | St. Helens | 28-16 | Wigan | Knowsley Road | 17125 | [3][4] |
Final
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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Sunday 20 October 1991 | St. Helens | 24-14 | Rochdale Hornets | Wilderspool | 9269 | 5 | [4] |
Teams and scorers
St. Helens | № | Rochdale Hornets |
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Teams | ||
Dave Tanner | 1 | Colin Whitfield |
Mike Riley | 2 | Phil Fox |
Gary Connolly | 3 | Darren Abram |
Tea Ropati | 4 | Ronnie Duane |
Anthony Sullivan | 5 | Tony Garrity |
Phil Veivers | 6 | Brett Clark |
Paul Bishop | 7 | Steve Gartland |
Jon Neill | 8 | Tony Humphries |
Paul Groves | 9 | Martin Hall |
Kevin Ward | 10 | Bob Marsden |
John Harrison | 11 | Cliff Eccles |
George Mann | 12 | Paul Okesene |
Shane Cooper | 13 | Mike Kuiti |
Mark Bailey (for Connolly) | 14 | Matt Calland (for Fox) |
Paul Forber (for Neill) | 15 | Simon Bamber (for Eccles) |
Mike McClennan | coach | Allan Agar |
24 | score | 14 |
8 | HT | 10 |
Scorers | ||
Tries | ||
Phil Veivers (2) | T | Darren Abram (1) |
Paul Bishop (1) | T | Ronnie Duane (1) |
George Mann (2) | T | Mike Kuiti (1) |
Goals | ||
Paul Bishop (2) | G | Colin Whitfield (1) |
Referee | R (Ronnie) Campbell (Widnes) | |
Man of the match | ?? | |
sponsored by | Greenall Whitley | |
Competition Sponsor | Greenalls |
Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point
The road to success
This chart excludes the match in the preliminary round
First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 104 | ||||||||||||||||||
Trafford Borough | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
Swinton | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
London Crusaders | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 49 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chorley Borough (2) | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
St. Helens | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Highfield | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
Salford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
Salford | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rochdale Hornets | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Carlisle | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Barrow | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Carlisle | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Whitehaven | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Carlisle | 44 |
Notes and comments
1 * The attendance is given as 3,500 in the Widnes official archives[2] - RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives it as 3,499||[2]
2 * First Lancashire Cup match by newly named/reformed club and also at this stadium, home at the time of St Helens Town A.F.C.
3 * The first Lancashire Cup match to be played on this ground, one of many used by Fulham during the nomadic period between 1985-1993
4 * The second score of over 100 points (and the second highest score) in the history of the competition when ||St. Helens beat Trafford Borough by 104 to 12. The highest occurred on 14 September 1986 when St. Helens beat Carlisle by 112 to 0
4 * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the end of the 2003 Summer season when they moved into the new purpose built Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wilderspool remained as a sports/Ruugby League ground and is/was used by Woolston Rovers/Warrington Wizards junior club.
The ground had a final capacity of 9,000 although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup third round match on 13 March 1948 when 34,304 spectators saw Warrington lose to Wigan 10-13.
References
- "Rugby League Project".
- "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896–97".
- "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results". Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896–97".
- "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.