# 1949–50 Challenge Cup

The 1949–50 Challenge Cup was the 49th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.

## First round

| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
| 04 Feb | Barrow | 5 | Hull FC | 10 |
| 04 Feb | Batley | 10 | Castleford | 9 |
| 04 Feb | Belle Vue Rangers | 20 | Whitehaven | 2 |
| 04 Feb | Broughton Moor | 5 | Wakefield Trinity | 28 |
| 04 Feb | Cardiff | 10 | Salford | 15 |
| 04 Feb | Featherstone Rovers | 19 | Bramley | 2 |
| 04 Feb | Huddersfield | 6 | Dewsbury | 9 |
| 04 Feb | Hull Kingston Rovers | 2 | Warrington | 12 |
| 04 Feb | Leeds | 14 | Leigh | 7 |
| 04 Feb | Oldham | 5 | Bradford Northern | 16 |
| 04 Feb | St Helens | 10 | Halifax | 6 |
| 04 Feb | Swinton | 24 | Liverpool | 10 |
| 04 Feb | Widnes | 15 | Rochdale Hornets | 2 |
| 04 Feb | Workington Town | 0 | Keighley | 5 |
| 04 Feb | Boys Club | 7 | Hunslet | 45 |
| 04 Feb | York | 2 | Wigan | 38 |
| 11 Feb | Bradford Northern | 6 | Oldham | 8 |
| 11 Feb | Bramley | 5 | Featherstone Rovers | 2 |
| 11 Feb | Castleford | 6 | Batley | 6 |
| 11 Feb | Dewsbury | 4 | Huddersfield | 2 |
| 11 Feb | Halifax | 2 | St Helens | 0 |
| 11 Feb | Hull FC | 0 | Barrow | 11 |
| 11 Feb | Hunslet | 18 | Boys Club | 9 |
| 11 Feb | Keighley | 4 | Workington Town | 3 |
| 11 Feb | Leigh | 7 | Leeds | 2 |
| 11 Feb | Liverpool | 9 | Swinton | 25 |
| 11 Feb | Rochdale Hornets | 0 | Widnes | 27 |
| 11 Feb | Salford | 20 | Cardiff | 5 |
| 11 Feb | Wakefield Trinity | 73 | Broughton Moor | 3 |
| 11 Feb | Warrington | 24 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 4 |
| 11 Feb | Whitehaven | 12 | Belle Vue Rangers | 0 |
| 11 Feb | Wigan | 65 | York | 15 |

## Second round

| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
| 25 Feb | Barrow | 6 | Featherstone Rovers | 2 |
| 25 Feb | Belle Vue Rangers | 6 | Hunslet | 17 |
| 25 Feb | Leeds | 7 | Wigan | 2 |
| 25 Feb | Salford | 2 | St Helens | 9 |
| 25 Feb | Warrington | 17 | Swinton | 2 |
| 02 Mar | Batley | 4 | Widnes | 12 |
| 06 Mar | Bradford Northern | 13 | Keighley | 2 |
| 06 Mar | Wakefield Trinity | 2 | Dewsbury | 2 |
| 08 Mar | Dewsbury | 10 | Wakefield Trinity | 15 |

## Quarterfinals

| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
| 11 Mar | Leeds | 14 | Wakefield Trinity | 8 |
| 11 Mar | St Helens | 0 | Bradford Northern | 0 |
| 11 Mar | Warrington | 21 | Hunslet | 7 |
| 11 Mar | Widnes | 12 | Barrow | 7 |
| 15 Mar | Bradford Northern | 11 | St Helens | 0 |

## Semifinals

| Date | Team one | Score one | Team two | Score two |
| 01 Apr | Warrington | 16 | Leeds | 4 |
| 01 Apr | Widnes | 8 | Bradford Northern | 0 |

## Final

Warrington beat Widnes 19–0 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 94,249. This was Warrington's third Cup final win in nine Final appearances. In the match Albert Naughton, at centre for Warrington opposed his older brother Johnny, who was in the Widnes second row. This was the second successive Final that the losing side had failed to score. The Warrington scrum-half Gerry Helme won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.
* 6 May 1950
| Warrington | 19 – 0 | Widnes |
| Try Ryder, Bath, Knowelden Goals Palin (3) DG Palin | | |
* Wembley, London Attendance: 94,249 Referee: A S Dobson (Pontefract) Player of the Match: Gerry Helme
| 1 | Les 'Cowboy' Jones |
| 2 | Brian Bevan |
| 3 | Ron Ryder |
| 4 | Albert Naughton |
| 5 | Albert E. Johnson |
| 6 | Bryn Knowelden |
| 7 | Gerry Helme |
| 8 | William "Billy" Derbyshire |
| 9 | Harold H. 'Ike' Fishwick |
| 10 | Ron Fisher |
| 11 | Harry Bath (c) |
| 12 | Gerry Lowe |
| 13 | Harold Palin |
| Coach: |
| Chris Brockbank |
| 1 | Frank Bradley |
| 2 | John Parkes |
| 3 | Colin Hutton |
| 4 | Tommy Sale (c) |
| 5 | xAustin 'Gus' Malone |
| 6 | Jackie Fleming |
| 7 | Harry 'Tich' Anderson |
| 8 | Charlie Reynolds |
| 9 | Johnny Naughton |
| 10 | Fred Leigh |
| 11 | Charlie Wilcox |
| 12 | Robert Band |
| 13 | Ron Rowbottom |
| Coach: |