1968 Challenge Cup Final

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1968 (1968) Challenge Cup Final  ()
1 2 Total
LEE File:Rhinoscolours.svg 4 7 11
WAK File:Wcatscolours.svg 7 3 10
Date 11 May 1968
Stadium Wembley Stadium
Location London, United Kingdom
Lance Todd Trophy winner Don Fox, Wakefield Trinity
Referee John Hebblethwaite
Attendance 87,100
Broadcast partner
Broadcaster BBC Sport
Commentator Eddie Waring

The 1968 Challenge Cup Final was a rugby league match contested between Leeds and Wakefield Trinity on 11 May 1968 at Wembley Stadium in London. It was the 67th final of English rugby league's primary cup competition, the Challenge Cup. The match is also known as the "Watersplash Final" due to the state of the waterlogged pitch caused by heavy downpours both before and during the game.

The final is best remembered for Wakefield's Don Fox missing a conversion from in front of the posts in the last minute of the game, handing Leeds a 11–10 victory. It was the club's eighth Challenge Cup win, and the first since 1957. Fox was the winner of the Lance Todd Trophy, as he had already been voted as man of the match before his miss.[1]


Match details

11 May 1968
Leeds 11 – 10 Wakefield Trinity
Try: Atkinson
Goal: Risman (4)
Report Try: Hirst (2)
Goal: Fox (2)
Wembley, London
Attendance: 87,100
Referee/s: John Hebblethwaite (York)
Man of the Match: Don Fox
FB 1 Bev Risman
RW 2 Alan Smith
RC 3 Syd Hynes
LC 4 Bernard Watson
LW 5 John Atkinson
SO 6 Mick Shoebottom
SH 7 Barry Seabourne
PR 8 Mick Clark (c)
HK 9 Tony Crosby
PR 10 Ken Eyre
SR 11 Bill Ramsey
SR 12 Albert Eyre
LF 13 Ray Batten
Coach:
Roy Francis
FB 1 Gary Cooper
RW 2 Ken Hirst
RC 3 Ian Brooke
LC 4 Gert Coetzer
LW 5 Kenneth Batty
SO 6 Harold Poynton (c)
SH 7 Ray Owen
PR 8 David Jeanes
HK 9 George Shepherd
PR 10 Don Fox
SR 11 Bob Haigh
SR 12 Matthew McLeod
LF 13 David Hawley
Coach:
Ken Traill

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