1910–11 Lancashire Cup
Rugby league season
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The 1910 Lancashire Cup was the sixth year of the regional rugby league competition and once again a previous winner captured the trophy. The cup was won by Oldham who beat Swinton in the final at Wheater's Field, Broughton, Salford, by a score of 4â3. The attendance at the final was 14,000 and receipts £418.
Background
For the fourth year in succession the same 12 clubs entered and four clubs awarded byes in the first round.
Competition and results
Round 1
Involved 4 matches (with four byes) and 12 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 22 October 1910 | Barrow | 17â11 | Leigh | Cavendish Park | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 22 October 1910 | St. Helens | 5-11 | Rochdale Hornets | Knowsley Road | [2] | |||||
| 4 | Sat 22 October 1910 | Wigan | 6-10 | Widnes Vikings | Central Park | [3][4] | |||||
| 5 | Swinton | bye | |||||||||
| 6 | Warrington | bye | [5] | ||||||||
| 7 | Salford | bye | |||||||||
| 8 | Oldham | bye |
Round 2 â quarterfinals
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 5 November 1910 | Barrow | 0-0 | Rochdale Hornets | Cavendish Park | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 5 November 1910 | Broughton Rangers | 2-10 | Swinton | Wheater's Field | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 5 November 1910 | Warrington | 14-5 | Salford | Wilderspool | [5] | |||||
| 4 | Sat 5 November 1910 | Widnes Vikings | 10-13 | Oldham | Naughton Park | [4] | |||||
| 1 | Tue 8 November 1910 | Rochdale Hornets | 14-7 | Barrow | Athletic Grounds |
Round 3 â semifinals
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 19 November 1910 | Rochdale Hornets | 6-16 | Oldham | Athletic Grounds | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 19 November 1910 | Swinton | 10-0 | Warrington | Chorley Road ground | [5] |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 3 December 1910 | Oldham | 4-3 | Swinton | Wheater's Field | 14,000 | £418 | 1 | [6] |
Teams and scorers
| Oldham | No. | Swinton |
|---|---|---|
| Teams | ||
| Alf Wood | 1 | Eddie Griffiths |
| George Smith | 2 | Tommy Gartrell |
| Sid Deane | 3 | Albert Valentine |
| George Cook | 4 | Jack Parker |
| Billy Dixon | 5 | Albert Morris |
| Tom White | 6 | Jimmy Fairhurst |
| EA Anlezark | 7 | Dai Davies (c) |
| Jim Wright | 8 | Jim Blears |
| Joe Ferguson | 9 | Dan Davies |
| Arthur Smith | 10 | Bill Preston |
| Billy Jardine | 11 | Jack Bailey |
| Tom McCabe | 12 | David B. Davies |
| Albert Avery | 13 | Tom McVeigh |
| 4 | score | 3 |
| 4 | HT | 3 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| T | Tommy Gartrell (1) | |
| T | ||
| Goals | ||
| Alf Wood | G | |
| Joe Ferguson | G | |
| Drop Goals | ||
| Joe Ferguson | DG | |
| Referee | ||
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Barrow | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leigh | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barrow | 0 â 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rochdale Hornets | 0 â 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| St. Helens | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rochdale Hornets | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rochdale Hornets | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Oldham | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wigan | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Widnes Vikings | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Widnes Vikings | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Oldham | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Oldham | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Oldham | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Swinton | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Broughton Rangers | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Runcorn | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Broughton Rangers | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Swinton | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Swinton | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Swinton | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warrington | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Warrington | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Warrington | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salford | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salford | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
- 1 Wheater's Field was the home ground of Broughton Rangers with a capacity of 20,000