1953–54 Lancashire Cup
rugby league season
The 1953–54 Lancashire Cup was the forty-first occasion on which the RFL Lancashire Cup competition was held.
St. Helens won the trophy by beating Wigan by the score of 16–8.
The match was played at Station Road, Pendlebury, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 42,793 and receipts were £6,918.
The attendance was again a record, albeit only beating the previous record by about 250.
Sport in general was now at its height of popularity, brought about by the ending of the Second World War, the new peace, the new affluence and more free time. Rugby League was no exception and this particular attendance record would never be broken.
Background
Overall, the number of teams entering that year's competition remained the same as last year's total of 14.
The same pre-war fixture format was retained.
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