1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season

1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season
1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season
League	Northern Rugby Football League
Champions	Leeds
League Leaders	Leeds
Top point-scorer(s)	Austin Rhodes 338
Top try-scorer(s)	Tom van Vollenhoven 54
	← 1959–60 1961–62 →

The 1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 66th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Leeds won their first Championship when they defeated Warrington 25-10 in the play-off final.

The Challenge Cup winners were St. Helens who beat Wigan 12-6 in the final.^[1]

Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League.

Championship

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts
1	Leeds	36	30	0	6	60
2	Warrington	36	27	1	8	55
3	Swinton	36	27	1	8	55
4	St. Helens	36	27	0	9	54
5	Wigan	36	26	0	10	52
6	Leigh	36	26	0	10	52
7	Wakefield Trinity	36	26	0	10	52
8	Oldham	36	25	1	10	51
9	Featherstone Rovers	36	23	1	12	47
10	Workington Town	36	21	0	15	42
11	Hull	36	20	1	15	41
12	Hull Kingston Rovers	36	19	2	15	40
13	Halifax	36	19	1	16	39
14	Huddersfield	36	18	2	16	38
15	Hunslet	36	18	0	18	36
16	Whitehaven	36	17	2	17	36
17	Castleford	36	16	2	18	34
18	York	36	16	2	18	34
19	Batley	36	16	1	19	33
20	Widnes	36	16	0	20	32
21	Blackpool Borough	36	14	3	19	31
22	Bramley	36	12	1	23	25
23	Salford	36	11	2	23	24
24	Bradford Northern	36	10	2	24	22
25	Keighley	36	10	1	25	21
26	Barrow	36	9	2	25	20
27	Dewsbury	36	8	3	25	19
28	Rochdale Hornets	36	9	0	27	18
29	Liverpool City	36	5	1	30	11
30	Doncaster	36	3	0	33	6

	Play-offs

Play-offs

Semi-finals			Championship final

1	Leeds	11

4	St. Helens	4
			Leeds	25

			Warrington	10
2	Warrington	13

3	Swinton	5

Championship final

This match was Warrington loose forward Albert Naughton's last appearance.^[2]

Saturday, 20 May 1961
15:00

Leeds	25-10	Warrington
Tries: Derek Hallas (2) Jack Fairbank Lewis Jones Goals: Lewis Jones	[1]	Tries: Jim Challinor (2) Goals: Laurie Gilfedder (2)

Odsal Stadium, Bradford
Attendance: 52,177

Challenge Cup

St Helens reached the Challenge Cup Final by beating Widnes 29–10 on 16 Feb away in round one after a 5–5 draw at home on 11 Feb; Castleford 18–10 away in round two on 25 Feb; Swinton 17–9 at home in the quarter-finals on 11 Mar and Hull 26–9 on neutral ground in the semi-final on 15 Apr.

St Helens beat Wigan 12–6 (5–2 at Half Time) in the Final played at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 94,672 on 13 May 1961. St Helens’ points were scored by Alex Murphy (try), Tom van Vollenhoven (try) and Austin Rhodes (one conversion and two drop goals). The Lance Todd Trophy winner was St Helens' second-row forward, Dick Huddart.

This was St Helens’ second Challenge Cup Final win in six Final appearances.^[3]

County cups

St Helens beat Swinton 15–9 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Huddersfield 16–10 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

References

^ "1960-61 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
^ "Warrington legend Albert Naughton passes away at the age of 84". skysports.com. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
^ "RFL Challenge Cup Roll of Honour". Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

Sources

[1] "1960-61 Season summary". Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-08.

[2] "Warrington legend Albert Naughton passes away at the age of 84". skysports.com. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013.

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

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