1978–79 Lancashire Cup
Widnes № Workington Town
David Eckersley 1 Paul Charlton
Stuart Wright 2 David Collister
Mal Aspey 3 John Risman
Mick George [ 1 ] 4 Ray Wilkins
Mick Burke 5 Iain McCorquodale [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Eric Hughes 6 Derek McMillan
Reg Bowden [ 4 ] 7 Arnold Boxer Walker
Jim Mills 8 Harry Beverley
Keith Elwell 9 Alan Banks
Glyn Shaw 10 Eddie Bowman
Mick Adams 11 Robert Blackwood
Alan Dearden [ 5 ] 12 Peter Gorley
Doug Laughton 13 Bill Pattinson
? 14
David Hull ( for Alan Dearden ) 15 Les Gorley ( for William Bill Pattinson )
15 score 13
5 HT 11
Competition and Results -- Final
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1978-79 was the sixty-sixth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held. Widnes won the trophy by beating Workington Town by the score of 15-13
The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 10,020 and receipts were £6,261.00
After relatively little success in the competition, Workington Town had reached the semi-final stage in 1973, 1974 and 1975, had been runner-up in 1976, winner in 1977, and now runners-up again in 1978. They would go on to be runners-up again in 1979; not a bad eight year record.