Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:46 am  

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Sun Mar 08, 2015 12:06 pm  

I believe it still holds the record attendance for any single sporting event ever.

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Sun Mar 08, 2015 12:14 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I believe it still holds the record attendance for any single sporting event ever.

I have spoken to several people who were at the game. Apparently thousands jumped over the fence due to the crush.
So the true attendance figures will never be known.

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Sun Mar 08, 2015 1:26 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I believe it still holds the record attendance for any single sporting event ever.

Didn't the Aussies claim to have broken the official figure with an NRL game in the last couple of years ?

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Sun Mar 08, 2015 1:30 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I believe it still holds the record attendance for any single sporting event ever.

Any single "Rugby League" sporting event, yes. But not any single sporting event. Not when there was nearly 200,00 in the Maracana in 1950.

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:48 pm  

WireFanatic III wrote:

Any single "Rugby League" sporting event, yes. But not any single sporting event. Not when there was nearly 200,00 in the Maracana in 1950.

The southern hemisphere RL game was a double header. Our record still stands I think 9A.
Perhaps the record may be any single football sporting event of any kind.
I'm not too sure. It ought to still be in the Guinness book of records if it still stands.

What is for sure, there's no chance of breaking that record here today.
More on course for our poorest attendance of competitive rugby this season. I think just slightly over 8K.

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:30 am  

My Dad and Grandad were there and Fax folk always say we were robbed by not having a perfect try awarded by the Ref, I dunno I was not even born then?
Remarkable though such a huge crowd, legend has it the road through Halifax was blocked all the way back over the Lancashire border, Halifax people walked to Odsal all 6 miles or so and back!

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:32 pm  

Fax4Life wrote:

My Dad and Grandad were there and Fax folk always say we were robbed by not having a perfect try awarded by the Ref, I dunno I was not even born then?
Remarkable though such a huge crowd, legend has it the road through Halifax was blocked all the way back over the Lancashire border, Halifax people walked to Odsal all 6 miles or so and back!

My late father was there and apparently didn't get in until half time. He also got home just in time to go to work the next morning.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Mon Mar 09, 2015 5:23 pm  

Fax4Life wrote:

My Dad and Grandad were there and Fax folk always say we were robbed by not having a perfect try awarded by the Ref, I dunno I was not even born then?
Remarkable though such a huge crowd, legend has it the road through Halifax was blocked all the way back over the Lancashire border, Halifax people walked to Odsal all 6 miles or so and back!

Funny you should pop up, i've always wondered how fax fans look back at this game, not the result so much but being the other half of it. Obviously we only here our side and stories from our older folk, so its kinda nice to hear a story like the above.

Re: Wire v Halifax CC Final 1954 : Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:04 pm  

Teessidewire wrote:

My late father was there and apparently didn't get in until half time. He also got home just in time to go to work the next morning.

Exactly the same memories my Father has told me many times, the coach must have got stuck in traffic miles away and just let the speccies off to walk the rest of the journey.

There is a good book describing the events of that day. There Were a Lot More Than That: Odsal 1954