Challenge Cup Final Appearances
David Topliss played Stand-off/Five-eighth, was captain, and won the Lance Todd Trophy in Wakefield Trinity’s 3-12 defeat to Widnes in the 1978–79 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 5 May 1979.
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