Rugby Competition Season
The 1956–57 Challenge Cup was the 56th staging of rugby league 's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup .[1]
First round [ edit ] Date Team one Score one Team two Score two 09 Feb Barrow 53 Wakefield Loco 12 09 Feb Bradford Northern 20 Dewsbury 7 09 Feb Doncaster 5 Castleford 15 09 Feb Halifax 48 Widnes St Maries 0 09 Feb Hull FC 15 Keighley 12 09 Feb Hull Kingston Rovers 2 Salford 10 09 Feb Hunslet 14 Batley 7 09 Feb Leeds 13 Wigan 11 09 Feb Leigh 17 Featherstone Rovers 11 09 Feb Liverpool 2 Widnes 11 09 Feb Rochdale Hornets 10 Blackpool 18 09 Feb Swinton 5 Huddersfield 5 09 Feb Wakefield Trinity 37 York 15 09 Feb Warrington 14 Bramley 2 09 Feb Whitehaven 9 St Helens 8 09 Feb Workington Town 5 Oldham 14 13 Feb Huddersfield 5 Swinton 0
Second round [ edit ] Date Team one Score one Team two Score two 23 Feb Castleford 2 Barrow 9 23 Feb Hull FC 3 Halifax 9 23 Feb Leeds 28 Warrington 6 23 Feb Leigh 5 Oldham 0 23 Feb Salford 2 Huddersfield 6 23 Feb Whitehaven 7 Hunslet 0 27 Feb Bradford Northern 8 Widnes 10 27 Feb Wakefield Trinity 9 Blackpool 11
Quarterfinals [ edit ] Date Team one Score one Team two Score two 09 Mar Barrow 10 Huddersfield 0 09 Mar Blackpool 13 Leigh 24 09 Mar Halifax 10 Leeds 16 09 Mar Whitehaven 2 Widnes 0
Semifinals [ edit ] Date Team one Score one Team two Score two 30 Mar Barrow 2 Leigh 2 30 Mar Leeds 10 Whitehaven 9 28 Apr Leigh 10 Barrow 15
Leeds 9 – 7 Barrow Try Quinn, Hodgkinson, Robinson [2] Try Jackson Goals Horne (2)
Leeds beat Barrow 9-7 in the Challenge Cup Final played at Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 76,318.
This was Leeds ' seventh Challenge Cup final win in nine Final appearances.[3] [4] Jeff Stevenson , their scrum half back, was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for his man-of-the-match performance.
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