1910 Yorkshire Cup

1910-11 Yorkshire Cup
Structure Regional knockout championship
Number of teams 14
Winners Wakefield Trinity
Runners-up Huddersfield
< 1909 Seasons 1911 >

The 1910 Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry (as this season), and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden. The competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)
1910 was the sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
This years saw a new name on the trophy. Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating lastseason's winners, and current cup holders, Huddersfield by the score of 8-2
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 19,000 and receipts were £696
This was Huddersfield's second appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total, and who knows, but for the intervention of the First World War and suspension of the competition, it may have been more)

Background

This season Coventry's name was added to the entrants as newcomers to the rugby league. This increased to number of entries by one up to a total of fourteen.
This in turn resulted in two byes in the first round.

Competition and Results[1][2]

Round 1

Involved 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref

1Sat 15 Oct 1910Batley4-7DewsburyMount Pleasant
2Sat 15 Oct 1910Bramley4-11HuddersfieldBarley Mow
3Sat 15 Oct 1910Hull9-6LeedsBoulevard[3]
4Sat 15 Oct 1910Hunslet8-13Hull KRParkside
5Sat 15 Oct 1910Keighley2-12HalifaxLawkholme Lane
6Sat 15 Oct 1910York9-5Bradford NorthernClarence Street
7Wakefield Trinitybye[4]
8Coventrybye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref

1Sat 05 Nov 1910Huddersfield25-0DewsburyFartown
2Sat 05 Nov 1910Hull24-2YorkBoulevard[3]
3Sat 05 Nov 1910Hull KR10-2HalifaxCraven Street (off Holderness Road)
4Sat 05 Nov 1910Wakefield Trinity42-16CoventryBelle Vue1[4]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref

1Sat 19 Nov 1910Huddersfield12-2Hull KRFartown
2Sat 19 Nov 1910Wakefield Trinity11-0HullBelle Vue[3][4]

Final

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref

Saturday 3 December 1910Wakefield Trinity8-2HuddersfieldHeadingley190006962[4][5][6]

Teams and Scorers[4][7]

Wakefield Trinity Huddersfield
actual position unsure teams
James "Jimmy" D Metcalfe1Jack Bartholomew
Ernest Bennett2Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld
William "Billy" Lynch3Edgar Wrigley
Thomas "Tommy" Poynton4Harold Wagstaff (c)
William "Billie" Simpson5W F Kitchen
Thomas "Tommy" 'Trapper' Newbould6James "Jim" Davies
Ezra Sidwell7Thomas Grey
Herbert "Harry" Kershaw8Ben Gronow
A K "Nealy" Crosland9Douglas Clark
John "Jack" Walton10H Sherwood
James Auton11Conrad "Con" Augustus Byrne
George Taylor12W Ainsley
Joseph "Joe" Taylor13W Mellor
??Coach (??)
8score2
5HT0
Scorers
Tries
William "Billie" Simpson (1)T
George Taylor (1)T
Goals
James "Jimmy" D Metcalfe (1)GEdgar Wrigley (1)
Refereeunknown

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

The road to success

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Wakefield Trinity
bye
Wakefield Trinity 42
Coventry 16
Coventry
bye
Wakefield Trinity 11
Hull 0
Hull 9
Leeds 6
Hull 24
York 2
York 9
Bradford Northern 5
Wakefield Trinity 8
Huddersfield 2
Bramley 4
Huddersfield 11
Huddersfield 25
Dewsbury 0
Batley 4
Dewsbury 7
Huddersfield 12
Hull KR 2
Hunslet 8
Hull KR 13
Hull KR 10
Halifax 2
Keighley 2
Halifax 12

Notes and comments

1 * The first (and only) game played by new club Coventry in the Yorkshire Cup. The next season they transferred to the Lancashire Cup competition
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.

See also

References

  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  6. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  7. "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1909-10" (PDF).

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