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1922–23 Challenge Cup

rugby league competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ48780257 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1922–23 Challenge Cup was the 23rd staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Leeds defeat Hull F.C. 28–3 in the final at Belle Vue, Wakefield to win their second Challenge Cup in their second appearance.

Editorial summary

“1922–23 Challenge Cup” enters the record as rugby league competition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Challenge, rugby and league can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Challenge, rugby and league.
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“1922–23 Challenge Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Challenge, rugby and league provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48780257. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922.

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This entry incorporates text from “1922–23 Challenge Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.