1900–01 Challenge Cup

The 1901 Challenge Cup was the 5th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.^[1] Contested during the 1900–01 Northern Rugby Football Union season, the final was played between Batley and Warrington at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.^[2]

First round

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
2 March 1901	Aspatria	4	Altrincham	3
2 March 1901	Barrow	11	Brighouse Rangers	0
2 March 1901	Birkenhead	2	Millom	0
2 March 1901	Bradford	7	Swinton	2
2 March 1901	Broughton Rangers	24	Tyldesley	3
2 March 1901	Dewsbury	9	Featherstone	5
2 March 1901	Goole	2	St Helens	12
2 March 1901	Hebden Bridge	6	Whitworth	0
2 March 1901	Heckmondwike	8	Seaton Rangers	0
2 March 1901	Huddersfield	6	Hull F.C.	3
2 March 1901	Hull Kingston Rovers	4	Salford	0
2 March 1901	Hunslet	8	Wath Brow Hornets	0
2 March 1901	Keighley	13	Kinsley	0
2 March 1901	Lancaster	3	Maryport	3
2 March 1901	Leeds Parish Church	11	Radcliffe	0
2 March 1901	Leeds	0	Warrington	19
2 March 1901	Leigh	38	Alverthorpe	0
2 March 1901	Liversedge	3	Normanton	2
2 March 1901	Manningham	0	Castleford	0
2 March 1901	Morecambe	11	Pontefract	0
2 March 1901	Otley	0	Oldham	19
2 March 1901	Outwood Church	2	Holbeck	5
2 March 1901	Rochedale Hornets	3	Bramley	7
2 March 1901	Runcorn	18	Wigan	0
2 March 1901	Stockport	13	Shipley	2
2 March 1901	Todmorden	2	Sowerby Bridge	11
2 March 1901	Wakefield Trinity	28	Eastmoor	6
2 March 1901	Whitehaven Recs	0	Widnes	3
2 March 1901	Windhill	3	Ossett	5
2 March 1901	York	10	Halifax	2
6 March 1901 - replay	Barrow	0	Broughton Rangers	2
6 March 1901 - replay	Castleford	21	Manningham	2
6 March 1901 - replay	Maryport	3	Lancaster	0

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
09 Mar	Aspatria	2	Wakefield Trinity	21
09 Mar	Batley	6	Huddersfield	2
09 Mar	Bramley	7	Oldham	10
09 Mar	Castleford	3	Workington	2
09 Mar	Dewsbury	8	Morecambe	0
09 Mar	Hebden Bridge	3	Broughton Rangers	33
09 Mar	Holbeck	3	Bradford	6
09 Mar	Keighley	5	York	5
09 Mar	Liversedge	0	Leeds Parish Church	5
09 Mar	Maryport	0	Hull Kingston Rovers	11
09 Mar	Ossett	5	Birkenhead	5
09 Mar	Runcorn	16	Leigh	4
09 Mar	St Helens	0	Stockport	0
09 Mar	Sowerby Bridge	3	Brighouse Rangers	6
09 Mar	Warrington	19	Heckmondwike	2
09 Mar	Widnes	8	Hunslet	0
13 Mar - replay	Birkenhead	20	Ossett	2
13 Mar - replay	Stockport	5	St Helens	11
13 Mar - replay	York	12	Keighley	0

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
23 Mar	Birkenhead	2	Widnes	10
23 Mar	Brighouse Rangers	0	Hull Kingston Rovers	7
23 Mar	Broughton Rangers	4	Oldham	11
23 Mar	Dewsbury	3	Castleford	5
23 Mar	Runcorn	21	York	0
23 Mar	St Helens	5	Batley	7
23 Mar	Wakefield Trinity	4	Bradford	5
23 Mar	Warrington	11	Leeds Parish Church	0

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
30 Mar	Batley	5	Runcorn	2
30 Mar	Hull Kingston Rovers	5	Castleford	5
30 Mar	Warrington	10	Bradford	8
30 Mar	Widnes	0	Oldham	8
03 Apr - replay	Castleford	7	Hull Kingston Rovers	2

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
13 Apr	Batley	9	Oldham	2
13 Apr	Warrington	21	Castleford	5

The final was played on Saturday 27 April 1901, where Batley beat Warrington 16-8 at Headingley in front of a crowd of 29,563.^[3]

27 April 1901

Batley	6–0	Warrington
Try: Davies, Auty	Report

Headingley, Leeds
Attendance: 29,563
Referee: J. Kidd (Millom)^[4]


1	Arthur Garner
2	Wattie Davies
3	Dai Fitzgerald
4	John B. Goodall
5	Wilf Auty
6	Joseph "Joe" Oakland (c)
7	James "Jim" Midgley
8	Fred Fisher
9	Patrick "Pat" "Paddy" Judge
10	Jack Rogers
11	Charles "Charlie" Stubley
12	Robert "Bob" Spurr
13	George Henry Main (often misspelled Maine)
14	Fred 'Ted' Fozzard
15	Frank Hollingworth

^ John Huxley; David Howes (1980). Encyclopedia of Rugby League Football. London: Robert Hale. pp. 41–43. ISBN 0-7091-8133-7.
^ Raymond Fletcher; David Howes (1995). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-1996. London: Headline Book Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 0-7472-7817-2.
^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
^ Hoole, Les (2015). The Rugby League Challenge Cup An Illustrated History 1897-1998. DB Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-78091-462-6.