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1964–65 Lancashire Cup

rugby league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16153992 ↗
Source-derived summary

1964–65 was the fifty-second occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.

St. Helens won the trophy by beating Swinton by the score of 12-4

The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 17,383 and receipts were £3,393

This was the fifth of five consecutive Lancashire Cup final wins for St. Helens, and what is more, the fifth of seven victories in a period of nine successive seasons.

It is also the fourth time in the last five years that Swinton have been defeated finalists.

Background

With again no invitation to a junior club this season, the total number of teams entering the competition remained the same at 14.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1964–65 Lancashire Cup” as rugby league season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lancashire, rugby and league can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rugby league season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1964–65 Lancashire 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.