1969 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy

1969-70 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy

Structure

Floodlit knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1968	Seasons	1970 >

1969 was the fifth occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held.
This year was another new name on the trophy after the 1969 runner-up defeated the reigning cup-holders
Leigh won the trophy by beating Wigan by the score of 11-6
The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 12,312 and receipts were £2,854
This was to be Wigan's last appearance in the final of the competition.

Background

This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.
The format remained the same as last season with the games in the preliminary round being on a two-legged home and away basis.
This preliminary round involved four clubs, to reduce the numbers to sixteen, followed by a straightforward knock out competition.

Competition and results^[1]

Preliminary Round - First Leg

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

P1	Tue 26 Aug 1969	Wigan	22-6	Warrington	Central Park			^[2]^[3]
P1	Mon 29 Sep 1969	Huddersfield	10-18	Castleford	Fartown	1750	1	^[4]^[5]

Preliminary round - Second leg

Involved 2 matches with the same 4 clubs with reverse fixtures

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	agg	Att	Ref

P2	Mon 29 Sep 1969	Wigan	15-10	Wigan	Wilderspool	21-32		^[2]^[3]
P2	Wed 8 Oct 1969	Castleford	19-2	Huddersfield	Wheldon Road	37-12	4000	^[4]^[5]

Round 1 - First round

Involved 8 matches and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Tue 30 Sep 1969	Halifax	9-27	Leeds	Thrum Hall
2	Tue 7 Oct 1969	Leigh	25-8	Wakefield Trinity	Hilton Park			^[6]
3	Mon 13 Oct 1969	Oldham	24-13	Rochdale Hornets	Watersheddings
4	Mon 13 Oct 1969	Swinton	9-17	St Helens	Station Road	4900		^[7]
5	Tue 14 Oct 1969	Wigan	24-5	Hull F.C.	Central Park		2	^[2]^[8]
6	Mon 20 Oct 1969	Barrow	13-10	Widnes	Craven Park			^[9]
7	Tue 21 Oct 1969	Salford	12-16	Castleford	The Willows
8	Tue 28 Oct 1969	Keighley	6-15	Hull KR	Lawkholme Lane

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Tue 4 Nov 1969	Barrow	6-11	St Helens	Craven Park	4500		^[7]
2	Tue 11 Nov 1969	Wigan	12-0	Oldham	Central Park		2	^[2]
3	Tue 18 Nov 1969	Hull KR	6-12	Leigh	Craven Park (1)
4	Tue 25 Nov 1969	Castleford	9-7	Leeds	Wheldon Road

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att	Notes	Ref

1	Tue 2 Dec 1969	Castleford	11-12	Leigh	Wheldon Road
2	Tue 9 Dec 1969	Wigan	13-13	St Helens	Central Park	8850	2	^[2]^[7]

Round 3 – Semifinals - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

R	Thu 11 Dec 1969	St Helens		9-15		Wigan	Knowsley Road	11500			^[2]^[7]

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Tuesday 16 December 1969	Wigan		6-11		Leigh	Central Park	12,312	2,854	2 3	^[2]^[10]^[11]

Teams and scorers^[2]^[11]

Leigh	№	Wigan

	teams
Stuart Ferguson	1	Cliff Hill
Rod Tickle	2	Stuart Wright
Dorrington	3	Bill Francis
Mick Collins	4	Peter Rowe
Joseph Walsh	5	Kevin O'Loughlin
David Eckersley	6	David Hill
Alex Murphy	7	Johnny Jackson
David "Dave" Chisnall	8	John Stephens
Kevin Ashcroft	9	Colin Clarke
Watts	10	Keith Ashcroft
Welding	11	Bill Ashurst
Grimes	12	Keith Mills
Geoff Lyon	13	Doug Laughton
Alex Murphy	Coach	Eric Ashton

11	score	6
11	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
Rod Tickle (1)	T
	Goals
Stuart Ferguson (3)	G	Bill Francis (2)
Alex Murphy (1)	G	David Hill (1)
Referee		William "Billy" H. Thompson (Huddersfield)

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

The road to success

This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


Wigan	24

Hull F.C.	5
		Wigan	12

		Oldham	0
Oldham	24

Rochdale Hornets	13
				Wigan	13 (15)

				St Helens	13 (9)
Barrow	13

Widnes	10
		Barrow	6

		St Helens	11
Swinton	9

St Helens	17
						Wigan	6

						Leigh	11
Salford	12

Castleford	16
		Castleford	9

		Leeds	7
Halifax	9

Leeds	27
				Castleford	11

				Leigh	12
Keighley	6

Hull KR	15
		Hull KR	6

		Leigh	12
Leigh	25

Wakefield Trinity	8

Notes and comments

1 * Huddersfield (who joined the competition in season 1967-68) play their first game at home in the competition
2 * This match was televised
3 * 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

General information for those unfamiliar

The Rugby League BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was a knock-out competition sposored by the BBC and between rugby league clubs, entrance to which was conditional upon the club having floodlights. Most matches were played on an evening, and those of which the second half was televised, were played on a Tuesday evening.
Despite the competition being named as 'Floodlit', many matches took place during the afternoonns and not under floodlights, and several of the entrants, including Barrow and Bramley did not have adequate lighting. And, when in 1973, due to the world oil crisis, the government restricted the use of floodlights in sport, all the matches, including the Trophy final, had to be played in the afternoon rather than at night.
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused by inclement weather)

References

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1 2 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1970" (PDF).
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↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
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