1914–15 Challenge Cup

1915 Challenge Cup
Duration	5 rounds
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	St Helens
	← 1914; 1920 →;

The 1915 Challenge Cup was the 19th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.^[1]

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

References

^ "Challenge Cup 1914/15". Rugby League Project.
^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
^ "William Myers". Saints Heritage Society. Retrieved 12 Sep 2020.

[1] "Challenge Cup 1914/15". Rugby League Project.

[2] "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

[3] "William Myers". Saints Heritage Society. Retrieved 12 Sep 2020.

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