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1928–29 Lancashire Cup
1928–29 Lancashire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout competition
Teams	13
Winners	Wigan
Runners-up	Widnes
	← 1927–28 1929–30 →

The 1928–29 Lancashire Cup was the 21st running of this regional rugby league competition. Wigan took the trophy for the 6th time, by beating Widnes by 5–4 in the final played at Wilderspool, Warrington. The attendance was 19,000 and receipts £1,150.

Background

The number of teams entering this year's competition remained at 13 which resulted in 3 byes in the first round.

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Notes	Ref

1	Sat 13 October 1928	Broughton Rangers	10–15	St. Helens	The Cliff		^[2]
2	Sat 13 October 1928	St Helens Recs	7–7	Warrington	Knowsley Road	1	^[3]
3	Sat 13 October 1928	Swinton	7–3	Leigh	Chorley Road ground
4	Sat 13 October 1928	Widnes	4–0	Wigan Highfield	Lowerhouse Lane		^[4]
5	Sat 13 October 1928	Wigan	37–13	Barrow	Central Park		^[5]
6		Rochdale Hornets		bye
7		Oldham		bye
8		Salford		bye
Replay
9	Wed 17 October 1928	Warrington	10–2	St Helens Recs	Wilderspool	2	^[3]

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Mon 22 October 1928	Rochdale Hornets	2–15	Widnes	Athletic Grounds	^[4]
2	Wed 24 October 1928	Oldham	12–2	Salford	Watersheddings
3	Wed 24 October 1928	Swinton	3–21	Wigan	Chorley Road ground	^[5]
4	Wed 24 October 1928	Warrington	14–11	St. Helens	Wilderspool	^[3]^[2]

Round 3 – semifinals

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Mon 5 November 1928	Oldham	5–5	Wigan	Watersheddings	^[5]
2	Thu 8 November 1928	Widnes	25–5	Warrington	Lowerhouse Lane	^[4]^[3]
Replay
1	Wed 7 November 1928	Wigan	21–0	Oldham	Central Park	^[5]

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 24 November 1928	Wigan		5–4		Widnes	Wilderspool	19000	£1,150	3	^[5]^[4]^[6]

Teams and scorers

Wigan^[5]	No.	Widnes^[4]

	teams
Jim Sullivan	1	Bob Fraser [1]
Lou Brown	2	Jack Dennett [2]
Roy Kinnear	3	Peter Topping [3]
Tommy Parker	4	Alec Higgins
Johnny Ring	5	Joe Stanley [4]
Arthur Binks	6	Paddy Douglas [5]
Syd Abram	7	Jerry Laughton [6] (probably Captain)
Tom Beetham	8	Frederick Kelsall
Jack Bennett	9	George Stevens [7]
Wilf Hodder	10	Nat Silcock
Len Mason	11	Jack Higgins [8]
Frank Stephens	12	Jack Gregory [9]
John Sherrington	13	Jimmy Hoey

5	score	4
0	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Lou Brown (1)	T	nil
	Goals
Jim Sullivan (1)	G	Jimmy Hoey (1)
	Drop Goals
nil	DG	Paddy Douglas (1)
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

Oldham

bye
		Oldham	12

		Salford	2
Salford

bye
				Oldham	5(0)

				Wigan	5(21)
Swinton	7

Leigh	3
		Swinton	3

		Wigan	21
Wigan	37

Barrow	13
						Wigan	5

						Widnes	4
Rochdale Hornets

bye
		Rochdale Hornets	2

		Widnes	15
Widnes	4

Wigan Highfield	0
				Widnes	25

				Warrington	5
St Helens Recs	7(2)

Warrington	7(10)
		Warrington	14

		St. Helens	11
Broughton Rangers	10

St. Helens	15

Notes

1 This match was transferred to the neighbouring St Helens stadium due to the better facilities offered
2 The official Warrington archives give the score for the replayed match as 13–3 – the details given by "RUGBY LEAGUE projects"^[1] show the score as 10–2
3 Watersheddings was the home ground of Oldham RLFC from 1889 to 1997