If my arithmetic is correct, Chris Thorman this afternoon broke 'Tich' West's points in a game record by scoring 4 tries and kicking 19 goals for York against Northumbria University in the Challenge Cup. York won 132-0.

The old record was

53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers (NU Challenge Cup) - 4 March 1905

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Well done that man!

would have been 3 points for a try in 1905 would it not

Yes it would. In "today's money" West would have scored 64 points.

Which begs the question ? , what the he'll were N U doing in this round of the CC ?

Unless the challenge cup format has changed radically, they won a game in the last round

They won in Round 2, simples.

they beat university of central lancashire 12-20 and then beat loughborough university 18-25

Well hopefully whoever wins the ' University Challenge ' next year has to play a decent amateur team before being thrown in against the semi pros

Except they have only been playing other uni' s , maybe an extra match against a proper open age team would be better next time , maybe they could play Leigh East Ladies next time to make sure they're up to the 3 rd round

Loughborough beat Kippax to get into the Second round where Northumbria beat them

You can now explain why Kippax shouldn't have been in the draw and we can keep going

Chris Thorman now plays for York?

How the mighty have fallen

Luck of the draw mate, they earned their right to play York, and that is that.

As I've absolutely no idea who or at what level ' Kippax ' are maybe you could enlighten me

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They play in the top flight of the Pennine League

Although I'm not sure if that qualifies for your statement of "hopefully whoever wins the ' University Challenge ' next year has to play a decent amateur team before being thrown in against the semi pros"

Of course being a cup competition, there is an inevitable degree of randomness to the ties I'm afraid

Boll*cks Luck of the draw. They got that far because in Rounds 1 and 2 the RFL seeds the university sides away from the BARLA amateur sides, so they get a far easier chance of progression. And in my opinion they do that because the Challenge Cup sponsors are.........oh yes a University, who just happen to play in the Challenge Cup.

That is pretty much what I assumed had happened , sponsors once again dictating who plays where at what level , RL eh , bloody wonderful

Loughborough Uni beat (Yorkshire Premier) Kippax in round 1.

I've also seen Leeds Met beat Woolston Rovers and Leigh East in recent seasons too, so not exactly.

Or not as it would seem

Just looked and they don't play in the top flight , that would be the ' premier ' division

They were still seeded to avoid most amateur teams. Same in Round 2.

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Fair enough , maybe I've just read the league tables wrong , I get them currently second in the east division , with a premier division above them

Possibly part of the issue having Universitys playing essentially each other is that the standard each year could easily drastically change as potentially you could lose a whole squad each year as students leave

Either way maybe a different format next year might be a better option

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