1914–15 Challenge Cup
Rugby league competition
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The 1915 Challenge Cup was the 19th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.[1]
| Duration | 5 rounds |
|---|---|
| Winners |  Huddersfield |
| Runners-up |  St Helens |
First round
| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Feb | Barrow | 15 | Wakefield Trinity | 8 |
| 27 Feb | Bradford Northern | 2 | Batley | 0 |
| 27 Feb | Brighouse Rangers | 0 | Salford | 26 |
| 27 Feb | Broughton Moor | 6 | Wardley | 3 |
| 27 Feb | Broughton Rangers | 14 | Runcorn | 4 |
| 27 Feb | Featherstone Rovers | 0 | St Helens | 6 |
| 27 Feb | Halifax | 6 | Bramley | 2 |
| 27 Feb | Hull FC | 23 | Dewsbury | 2 |
| 27 Feb | Hull Kingston Rovers | 10 | Hunslet | 0 |
| 27 Feb | Keighley | 8 | Askam | 5 |
| 27 Feb | Leigh | 0 | Huddersfield | 3 |
| 27 Feb | Oldham | 5 | Wigan | 10 |
| 27 Feb | Warrington | 5 | Leeds | 4 |
| 27 Feb | Widnes | 13 | St Helens Recs | 4 |
| 27 Feb | Wigan Highfield | 0 | Swinton | 2 |
| 27 Feb | York | 0 | Rochdale Hornets | 0 |
| 02 Mar | Rochdale Hornets | 19 | York | 2 |
Second round
| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Mar | Bradford Northern | 3 | Wigan | 11 |
| 13 Mar | Broughton Rangers | 8 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 5 |
| 13 Mar | Hull FC | 22 | Halifax | 0 |
| 13 Mar | Keighley | 22 | Barrow | 8 |
| 13 Mar | Rochdale Hornets | 75 | Broughton Moor | 13 |
| 13 Mar | Swinton | 0 | St Helens | 5 |
| 13 Mar | Warrington | 2 | Salford | 11 |
| 13 Mar | Widnes | 3 | Huddersfield | 29 |
Quarterfinals
| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar | Huddersfield | 33 | Salford | 0 |
| 27 Mar | Keighley | 2 | St Helens | 3 |
| 27 Mar | Rochdale Hornets | 11 | Hull FC | 0 |
| 27 Mar | Wigan | 11 | Broughton Rangers | 5 |
Semifinals
| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Apr | Huddersfield | 27 | Wigan | 2 |
| 10 Apr | St Helens | 5 | Rochdale Hornets | 5 |
| 24 Apr | St Helens | 9 | Rochdale Hornets | 2 |
Final
Huddersfield defeated St. Helens 37–3 in the Challenge Cup Final, on 1 May, held at Watersheddings, Oldham before a crowd of 8,000.
This was Huddersfield's second Challenge Cup win in as many Final appearances.[2]
At one point St Helens' players refused to enter the field of play unless promised bonuses for reaching the final were paid by the Committee[3]
St Helens team - 1 Bert Roberts, 2 Tom Barton, 3 Jimmy Flanagan, 4 Tom White, 5 Henry Greenall, 6 Matt Creevey, 7 Fred Trenwith, 8 George Farrimond, 9 Sam Daniels – Try, 10 James Shallcross, 11 William Jackson, 12 Tom Durkin, 13 William Myers