1964–65 Lancashire Cup

1964–65 Lancashire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	14
Winners	St. Helens
Runners-up	Swinton
← 1963–64 1965–66 →

1964–65 was the fifty-second occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.

St. Helens won the trophy by beating Swinton by the score of 12-4

The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 17,383 and receipts were £3,393

This was the fifth of five consecutive Lancashire Cup final wins for St. Helens, and what is more, the fifth of seven victories in a period of nine successive seasons.
It is also the fourth time in the last five years that Swinton have been defeated finalists.

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Background

With again no invitation to a junior club this season, the total number of teams entering the competition remained the same at 14.

The same fixture format was retained, and due to the number of clubs this resulted in no bye but one “blank” or “dummy” fixture in the first round, and one bye in the second round

Competition and results

^[1]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with no bye but one “blank” fixture) and 14 clubs

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

1	Friday 4 September 1964	Whitehaven	10-31	Oldham	Recreation Ground
2	Saturday 5 September 1964	Barrow	10-5	Blackpool Borough	Craven Park
3	Saturday 5 September 1964	Leigh	10-13	Warrington	Hilton Park		^[2]
4	Saturday 5 September 1964	Liverpool City	11-41	St. Helens	Mill Yard, Knotty Ash	3,500	^[3]
5	Saturday 5 September 1964	Widnes	33-0	Rochdale Hornets	Naughton Park		^[4]
6	Saturday 5 September 1964	Wigan	36-6	Salford	Central Park		^[5]
7	Saturday 5 September 1964	Workington Town	2-6	Swinton	Derwent Park
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Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 clubs

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

1	Monday 14 September 1964	Barrow	11-22	St. Helens	Craven Park	8,125	^[3]
2	Monday 14 September 1964	Swinton	11-5	Wigan	Station Road	13,422	^[5]
3	Monday 21 September 1964	Warrington	19-4	Oldham	Wilderspool		^[2]
4		Widnes		bye			^[4]

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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

1	Tuesday 29 September 1964	Warrington	8-10	St. Helens	Wilderspool	19,258	^[2]^[3]
2	Wednesday 30 September 1964	Swinton	11-7	Widnes	Station Road	9,250	^[4]

Final

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

	Saturday 24 October 1964	St. Helens		12-4		Swinton	Central Park	17,383	£3,393	1	^[3]^[6]

Teams and scorers

St. Helens	No.	Swinton

	teams
Frank Barrow^[7]	1	Ken Gowers (c)
Tom Pimblett^[8]	2	David Harries
Keith Northey^[9]	3	Bob Fleet
Billy Benyon	4	Alan Buckley
Len Killeen	5	John Speed
Peter Harvey^[10]	6	George Parkinson
Alex Murphy	7	Graham Williams
John Tembey	8	Harold Bate
Bob Dagnall	9	Derek Clarke
John Warlow	10	Ken Halliwell
Ray French	11	Graham Rees
Mervyn Hicks	12	Barry Simpson
Doug Laughton	13	Derek Hurt
Tony Barrow (non-playing substitute)	14	Billy Davies
Cliff Watson	15	Albert Cartwright

12	score	4
5	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Billy Benyon (1)	T
Mervyn Hicks (1)	T
	T
	Goals
Len Kileen (3)	G	Ken Gowers (2)
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		E. Clay (Leeds)

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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The road to success

First round		Second round		Semi-finals		Final

Leigh	10

Warrington	13
		Warrington	19

		Oldham	4
Whitehaven	10

Oldham	31
				Warrington	8

				St. Helens	10
Barrow	10

Blackpool Borough	5
		Barrow	11

		St. Helens	22
Liverpool City	11

St. Helens	41
						St. Helens	12

						Swinton	4
Workington Town	2

Swinton	6
		Swinton	11

		Wigan	5
Wigan	36

Salford	6
				Swinton	11

				Widnes	7
Widnes	33

Rochdale Hornets	0
		Widnes

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Notes and comments

1 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959