1964–65 Northern Rugby Football League season
League | Northern Rugby Football League | |||
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Champions | ![]() |
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League Leaders | File:Saintscolours.svg St Helens | |||
Top point-scorer(s) | File:Saintscolours.svg Len Killeen 360 | |||
Top try-scorer(s) | File:Wigancolours.svg Trevor Lake 40 | |||
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The 1964–65 Rugby Football League season was the sixty ninth season of rugby league football.
Contents
Rule change
- Substitutes were introduced.[1] They were initially only for players injured in the time up to and including half time.
Season summary
1964-65 saw the two divisions of rugby league merge back into one single league. The championship play-offs returned to decide the champions. A new top 16 play-off format was introduced rather than top four system used between 1905–06 and 1962-63.
St.Helens had finished the regular season as league leaders. Halifax won their third Championship when they beat St.Helens 15-7 in the play-off final. Terry Fogerty was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.
Challenge Cup winners were Wigan who beat Hunslet 20-6 in the final.
Bradford Northern are resurrected and accepted back into the League.[2]
St.Helens won the Lancashire League, and Castleford won the Yorkshire League. St.Helens beat Swinton 12–4 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Leeds 18–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Championship
Team | Pld | W | D | L | Pts | |
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1 | St. Helens | 34 | 28 | 0 | 6 | 56 |
2 | Wigan | 34 | 26 | 0 | 8 | 52 |
3 | Castleford | 34 | 25 | 1 | 8 | 51 |
4 | Wakefield Trinity | 34 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 50 |
5 | Warrington | 34 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 49 |
6 | Workington Town | 34 | 23 | 1 | 10 | 47 |
7 | Halifax | 34 | 22 | 1 | 10 | 47 |
8 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 34 | 22 | 0 | 12 | 44 |
9 | Oldham | 34 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 41 |
10 | Leeds | 34 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 40 |
11 | Swinton | 34 | 19 | 1 | 14 | 39 |
12 | Leigh | 34 | 19 | 1 | 14 | 39 |
13 | Hull | 34 | 19 | 0 | 15 | 38 |
14 | Hunslet | 34 | 19 | 0 | 15 | 38 |
15 | Featherstone Rovers | 34 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 36 |
16 | Barrow | 34 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 36 |
17 | Bradford Northern | 34 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 31 |
18 | Huddersfield | 34 | 15 | 0 | 19 | 30 |
19 | Widnes | 34 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 30 |
20 | Whitehaven | 34 | 14 | 1 | 19 | 29 |
21 | Dewsbury | 34 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 28 |
22 | Salford | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 24 |
23 | Liverpool City | 34 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 22 |
24 | Bramley | 34 | 10 | 1 | 23 | 21 |
25 | York | 34 | 10 | 0 | 24 | 20 |
26 | Batley | 34 | 9 | 1 | 24 | 19 |
27 | Keighley | 34 | 9 | 0 | 25 | 18 |
28 | Doncaster | 34 | 9 | 0 | 25 | 18 |
29 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 7 | 1 | 26 | 15 |
30 | Blackpool Borough | 34 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 14 |
Play-offs
Round 1 | Round 2 | Semi-final | Championship Final | ||||||||||||||||
St Helens | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
Barrow | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
St Helens | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
Oldham | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
St Helens | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Warrington | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leigh | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
St Helens | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hunslet | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Swinton | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Workington Town | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wigan | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 11 |
Challenge Cup
Wigan | Posit. | Hunslet |
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Ray Ashby | 1. FB | Bill Langton |
Billy Boston | 2. WG | John Griffiths |
Eric Ashton (c) | 3. CE | Geoff Shelton |
Keith Holden | 4. CE | Alan Preece |
Trevor Lake | 5. WG | Barry Lee |
Cliff Hill | 6. SO | Brian Gabbitas |
Frank Parr | 7. SH | Alan Marchant |
Danny Gardiner | 8. PR | Dennis Hartley |
Colin Clarke | 9. HK | Bernard Prior |
Brian McTigue | 10. PR | Ken Eyre |
Tony Stephens | 11. SR | Bill Ramsey |
Roy Evans | 12. SR | Geoff Gunney |
Laurie Gilfedder | 13. LF | Fred Ward (c) |
Kevin O'Loughlin | Sub. | Arthur Render |
Geoff Lyon | Sub. | Billy Baldwinson |
Captain-coached by Eric Ashton,[3] Wigan beat Hunslet 20-16 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 89,016.
This was Wigan’s seventh Cup Final win in thirteen Final appearances.
To date, this was Hunslet’s last Challenge Cup Final appearance.[4]