Sourcing caveat: Swinton's try/goal breakdown (their 4 goals, no confirmed try scorer) could not be confirmed. A partial Swinton (losing side) lineup — 5 of 13 positions — was found on Wikipedia's final-specific article and is added below; the remaining 8 Swinton positions could not be found despite further searching (club and player-specific sources for this era's Swinton side were not found). Leeds's full 13-man lineup, the referee, the try scorer and the goal-kicker were added from the Leeds Rhinos heritage site's timeline page, which was not consulted in the prior pass on this entry — Wikipedia's own lineup table for this final has an entirely blank Leeds column. No squad numbers are given since numbered shirts were not yet standard practice in this period.
Match report
Leeds beat Swinton 11-8 at Central Park, Wigan — the final's return to a northern venue for this one season before Wembley became the permanent home of the fixture from 1932/33 onward. The narrow scoreline made this one of the closer finals of the pre-war Wembley era. Leeds' points came from a try by Australian winger Harris — the match-winning score, in the 13th minute of the second half — converted along with three other goals by prop-captain Thompson, for 4 goals and 1 try (11 points) to Swinton's 4 goals (8 points). 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). Since 1946/47, the competition's individual award, the Lance Todd Trophy, has been presented to the final's outstanding player, voted for by a panel of media representatives at the final whistle — on several notable occasions the trophy has gone to a player on the losing side, an unusual honour that reflects the award's focus on individual performance rather than simply reflecting the final scoreline. This was the 32nd Challenge Cup final played, and, under the name “Leeds,” the 3rd 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.