Warrington 17-3 Oldham — 1906/07 Challenge Cup Final

Wheater's Field, Salford · Attendance: 18,500

Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

1906/07 Challenge Cup Final: Warrington 17-3 Oldham, at Wheater's Field, Salford.

Sourcing caveat: Warrington's full line-up and most try/goal scorers could not be confirmed; only Oldham's single try-scorer is known. Oldham's own line-up (the losing side) was found via a second research pass on the club's own heritage-trust archive and is given below. Oldham's players are listed 1-13 in the archive's own order (this was 13-a-side rugby by 1907, following the Northern Union's 1906 switch from 15), but that reflects the archive database's own listing order rather than a confirmed genuine period shirt number (squad numbering wasn't standard until the 1930s), and no source individually labelled each player's position — the broad groupings below (fullback; four three-quarters; two half-backs; six forwards) follow the standard-for-the-era listing order rather than being source-confirmed per player. A fifth research pass located three individual Warrington players via their own Wikipedia biographies, each confirming the player's presence in this specific final and his position: captain and wing Jack Fish (who scored a try), stand-off Thomas Hockenhull (who also scored a try), and forward Alf (Alfred Starkey) Boardman. No shirt numbers are given for these three (left as UNCONFIRMED) since squad numbering wasn't standard until the 1930s, and the remaining 10 places in Warrington's 13-man team could not be identified from any accessible source — the Warrington Rugby Heritage club history page separately credits Fish with "a try and four goals" in this match, which is not fully reconcilable with his own biography's "a try" description alone, so no goal-kicking credit is recorded here pending a source that itemises it.

Scorers

WarringtonNo scorers recorded.
OldhamTries: Albert Avery (Oldham's only score)

Teams

WarringtonOldham
UNCONFIRMEDJack FishWing (captain)Dickie Thomas
UNCONFIRMEDThomas HockenhullStand-offGeorge Tyson
UNCONFIRMEDAlf BoardmanForwardBilly Dixon

Match officials

RefereeMr. F. Renton (Hunslet)

Match report

Warrington won their second Challenge Cup, beating Oldham 17-3 at Wheater's Field, Salford (Broughton) on 27 April 1907 in front of 18,500 spectators, referee Mr. F. Renton of Hunslet in charge. Oldham's lone reply came through a try from Albert Avery. The margin was one of the more emphatic among finals of the period. The Rugby League Challenge Cup is rugby league's oldest and most prestigious knockout competition, first contested in 1896/97 under what was then the Northern Union. Its history has been interrupted only by the two World Wars, with four editions lost between 1915/16 and 1918/19 and one more in 1939/40; the finals played either side of those gaps, and during the Second World War itself, were sometimes contested as regional or two-legged fixtures under wartime emergency arrangements rather than the usual single showpiece match. For much of the competition's early history the final rotated around northern club and representative grounds such as Headingley, Fartown, Central Park and the Athletic Ground, Rochdale, before Wembley Stadium became the final's permanent home from 1928/29 onward (with a short break during Wembley's 2000-2007 reconstruction, when finals were staged at Murrayfield, Twickenham and the Millennium Stadium instead). This was the 11th Challenge Cup final played, and, under the name “Warrington,” the 2nd Challenge Cup title for the club. The result is recorded in this site's full results table alongside every other Challenge Cup final played since the competition's 1896/97 inception, cross-referenced against the venue and attendance figures gathered for that table. As with all of this site's rugby league match reports, any statistic that couldn't be confirmed from an accessible source — a scorer's name, an exact minute, a goal-kicking split — has been left out entirely rather than estimated, in line with the sourcing standard applied across the Challenge Cup, World Cup, World Club Challenge and domestic finals coverage on this site. The Challenge Cup final has long been treated as rugby league's flagship one-off occasion, drawing media and public attention that regularly outstrips any single regular-season league fixture, a status it has held for the entire span of the competition's history covered by this page.

Round by round

Qualifying Round

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Askam 5–14 MillomSalthouse—1907-03-02
Barrow 24–0 Pemberton RoversCavendish Park—1907-03-02
Brighouse St.James 15–0 Sharlston RoversLane Head—1907-03-02
Egerton 0–14 RadcliffeWeaste—1907-03-02
Newington 3–3 YorkCraven Street—1907-03-02
Saville Green 10–0 Bramley——1907-03-02
Workington 5–4 MaryportLonsdale Park—1907-03-02
Maryport 6–8 Workington——1907-03-06
York 13–13 NewingtonWigginton Rd—1907-03-06
Newington 5–14 YorkBoulevard—1907-03-08

Round 1

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Barrow 0–0 DewsburyCavendish Park—1907-03-16
Broughton Rangers 38–0 WidnesWheater's Field—1907-03-16
Huddersfield 38–0 Brighouse St.JamesFartown—1907-03-16
Hull Kingston Rovers 9–8 BradfordCraven Street—1907-03-16
Keighley 18–0 Brookland RoversLawkholme Lane—1907-03-16
Leeds 18–11 Rochdale HornetsHeadingley—1907-03-16
Millom 3–45 HalifaxThrum Hall—1907-03-16
Oldham 5–0 RuncornWatersheddings—1907-03-16
Radcliffe 0–13 YorkHollingworth Lake—1907-03-16
Salford 10–5 LeighWeaste—1907-03-16
Swinton 16–9 St HelensChorley Road—1907-03-16
Warrington 34–9 BatleyWilderspool—1907-03-16
Whitehaven Recreation 10–0 Saville GreenRecreation Ground—1907-03-16
Wigan Highfield 2–63 Hull FCBoulevard—1907-03-16
Wigan 20–6 HunsletCentral Park—1907-03-16
Workington 3–3 Wakefield TrinityLonsdale Park—1907-03-16
Dewsbury 16–3 BarrowCrown Flatt—1907-03-20
Wakefield Trinity 16–5 WorkingtonBelle Vue—1907-03-20

Round 2

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Broughton Rangers 7–11 LeedsWheater's Field—1907-03-23
Halifax 5–10 OldhamThrum Hall—1907-03-23
Huddersfield 17–0 Hull Kingston RoversFartown—1907-03-23
Salford 18–5 WiganWeaste—1907-03-23
Wakefield Trinity 12–12 DewsburyBelle Vue—1907-03-23
Warrington 16–0 Hull FCWilderspool—1907-03-23
Whitehaven Recreation 0–14 KeighleyRecreation Ground—1907-03-23
York 3–11 SwintonWigginton Road—1907-03-23
Dewsbury 5–21 Wakefield TrinityCrown Flatt—1907-03-26

Round 3

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Huddersfield 9–15 WarringtonFartown—1907-03-30
Salford 12–3 LeedsWeaste—1907-03-30
Swinton 22–8 KeighleyChorley Road—1907-03-30
Wakefield Trinity 10–14 OldhamBelle Vue—1907-03-30

Semi-Finals

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Oldham 6–0 SalfordAthletic Ground160001907-04-13
Warrington 21–0 SwintonCentral Park120001907-04-13

Final

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Warrington 17–3 OldhamWheater's Field, Salford185001907-04-27

Early rounds feature amateur and community clubs alongside professional ones; team names are linked only where this site has a team page for that exact club, matching the same safety-first approach used for the Final's own results table.

Sources

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