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1964–65 Northern Rugby Football League season

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1964–65 Rugby Football League season
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Champions Halifax
League Leaders St. Helens
Top point-scorer(s) Len Killeen 360
Top try-scorer(s) Trevor Lake 40
Reformed Bradford Northern

The 1964–65 Rugby Football League season was the 70th season of rugby league football.

Rule change

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  • Substitutes were introduced.[1] They were initially only for players injured in the time up to and including half time.

Season summary

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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. A Bottom 14 Championship was also introduced for the remaining clubs who finished below the top 16, although some clubs declined to take part.

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 20-16 in the final.

Bradford Northern were resurrected and accepted back into the League.[2]

St. Helens won the Lancashire League, and Castleford won the Yorkshire League.

Championship

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Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PAv Pts Qualification
1 St Helens (L) 34 28 0 6 621 226 2.748 56 Qualification for the Championship play-offs
2 Wigan 34 26 0 8 626 260 2.408 52
3 Castleford 34 25 1 8 555 294 1.888 51
4 Wakefield Trinity 34 24 2 8 486 228 2.132 50
5 Warrington 34 24 1 9 416 292 1.425 49
6 Workington Town 34 23 1 10 497 326 1.525 47
7 Halifax 34 22 1 11 629 335 1.878 45
8 Hull Kingston Rovers 34 22 0 12 587 377 1.557 44
9 Oldham 34 20 1 13 444 312 1.423 41
10 Leeds 34 20 0 14 469 349 1.344 40
11 Swinton 34 19 1 14 334 250 1.336 39
12 Leigh 34 19 1 14 446 349 1.278 39
13 Hull 34 19 0 15 412 381 1.081 38
14 Hunslet 34 19 0 15 477 466 1.024 38
15 Featherstone Rovers[a] 34 18 0 16 436 463 0.942 36
16 Barrow 34 18 0 16 383 408 0.939 36
17 Bradford Northern 34 15 1 18 345 347 0.994 31 Qualification for the Bottom 14 Championship
18 Huddersfield 34 15 0 19 368 419 0.878 30
19 Widnes 34 14 2 18 348 410 0.849 30
20 Whitehaven 34 14 1 19 308 402 0.766 29
21 Dewsbury 34 13 2 19 298 407 0.732 28
22 Salford 34 11 2 21 307 420 0.731 24
23 Liverpool City 34 10 2 22 248 519 0.478 22
24 Bramley 34 10 1 23 309 456 0.678 21
25 York 34 10 0 24 347 535 0.649 20
26 Batley 34 9 1 24 263 613 0.429 19
27 Keighley 34 9 0 25 303 592 0.512 18
28 Doncaster 34 9 0 25 296 616 0.481 18
29 Rochdale Hornets 34 7 1 26 293 493 0.594 15
30 Blackpool Borough 34 6 2 26 248 554 0.448 14
Source: [4]
(L) Won League Leader's Trophy
Notes:
  1. ^ Due to a miscalculation, some contemporary sources incorrectly published Featherstone's final league position as 16th, but the error was discovered before the play-offs took place.[3]

Play-offs

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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 F.C. 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

Final

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22 May 1965
Halifax 15 – 7 St Helens
Tries: Burnett (2), Jackson
Goals: James (3)
 Tries: Killeen
Goals: Killeen (2)
Station Road, Swinton
Attendance: 20,776
Referee: D. S. Brown (Dewsbury)
Player of the Match: Terry Fogerty

Challenge Cup

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Main article: 1964–65 Challenge Cup

Captained by player-coach Eric Ashton,[5] 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.[6]

County cups

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Main article: 1964–65 Lancashire Cup
Main article: 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup

St Helens beat Swinton 12–4 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Leeds 18–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

References

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  1. ^ de la Riviere, Richard, ed. (2009), "Top ten: Rugby league rules", Rugby League World, no. 340, Brighouse: League Publications (published August 2009), p. 61, ISSN 1466-0105
  2. ^ "1964-65 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  3. ^ Macklin, Keith (23 April 1965). "Play-off matches switched". Liverpool Daily Post. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Fletcher, Raymond; Howes, David, eds. (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-96. London: Headline Publishing Group. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-7472-7817-7.
  5. ^ news.bbc.co.uk (27 February 2004). "Cup heroes: Eric Ashton". BBC Sport. UK: BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  6. ^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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