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1967–68 Northern Rugby Football League season

1967–68 Rugby Football League season
League Northern Rugby Football League
Champions Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity
League Leaders Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds
Top point-scorer(s) Rhinoscolours.svg Bev Risman 332
Top try-scorer(s) HKRcolours.svg Roger Millward 38
Seasons

The 1967–68 Rugby Football League season was the 73rd season of rugby league football.

Leeds had ended the regular season as league leaders for the second successive season. Wakefield Trinity won their second Championship, the second in successive seasons, when they beat Hull Kingston Rovers 17-10 in the Championship Final. Gary Cooper was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.

The Challenge Cup winners were Leeds who beat Wakefield Trinity 11-10 in the final.

The BBC2 Floodlit Trophy winners were Castleford who beat Leigh 8-5 in the final.

Clive Sullivan of Hull set a club record of 7-tries scored in a match against Doncaster on 15 April 1968.

Warrington won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. St. Helens beat Warrington 2–2 (replay 13–10) to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull Kingston Rovers beat Hull 8–7 to win the Yorkshire Cup.


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