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Wigan had ended the regular season as the league leaders. The Challenge Cup Winners were Wigan who beat Bradford Northern 8–3 in the final. Wigan's 1948 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was the first ever televised Rugby League match and Cup Final – although it was shown in the Midlands only. [1]
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The final was broadcast live on BBC television, with George Duckworth providing commentary, [4] and was the first time a rugby league match had ever been televised. [5] The match was only broadcast to viewers in the London area, as the first television transmitter in the North of England was not completed until 1951. [6]
In 1933 the Prince of Wales attended Central Park, becoming the first royal to watch a rugby league match. On 25 October 1938 Australian Harry Sunderland arrived in Wigan to take up the duties of Secretary-Manager at Central Park. On 28 September the following year, Sunderland's contract was terminated and he and the club parted company.
The 1947–48 Northern Rugby Football League season's Challenge Cup Final was the first rugby league match to be televised. [17] All spectator sports in the United Kingdom experienced a surge in interest in the years following the end of World War II and rugby league boomed. [ 20 ]
The 1948 NSWRFL season was the forty-first New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership season, Sydney’s top-level rugby league football competition, and Australia’s first. The teams remained unchanged from the previous season, with ten clubs from across the city contesting the premiership during the season which culminated in Western ...
Match Reports, Articles. CM: The Courier-Mail: 1933-1954: Trove: Match Reports, Articles. -Various Regional Newspapers: 1891-1954: Trove: Match Reports, Given Names of Players Offline Resources EECYB: E.E. Christensen's Official Rugby League Year Book: 1946-1978: Copies at State Library of NSW: Teams, Point Scorers, Report. 1949 Yearbook covers ...
In 1948 Wigan took part in the first televised rugby league match when their 8–3 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was broadcast to the Midlands. In another first this was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy.