The 1973–74 Challenge Cup was the 73rd staging of

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

's oldest knockout competition, the

Challenge Cup The Rugby Football League Challenge Cup, commonly known just as the Challenge Cup is a Single-elimination tournament, knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, it is the world's old ...

. The final was contested by

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and

Featherstone Rovers Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Post Office Road and currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. Featherstone ...

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beat

24-9 at Wembley in front of a crowd of 77,400. The winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was the Warrington , Derek Whitehead. Warrington defeated Huddersfield, Huyton, Wigan and Dewsbury to get to the final against Featherstone Rovers. This was Warrington’s fourth Cup final win in ten Final appearances. Warrington's full-back Derek Whitehead won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

First round

Second round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

Challenge Cup official website

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