1921 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 14 | |||
| Winners | Leeds | |||
| Runners-up | Dewsbury | |||
| ||||
The 1921 Yorkshire Cup was the fourteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year saw another new name on the trophy when Leeds won the cup by beating Dewsbury by the score of 11-3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £1,650. This was the first of Leeds' Yorkshire Cup successes, and they would go on to (eventually) triumph on a record seventeen occasions.
Background
The Rugby Football League's 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, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this 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).
Competition and Results[1][2]
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers" but Featherstone Rovers joined for the first time as a league team, after being newly admitted to the league during the close-season. This resulted in one additional entrant, bringing the total up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in only two byes in the first round.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Batley | 5-4 | Hunslet | Mount Pleasant | |||||||
| 2 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Bradford Northern | 2-14 | Bramley | Birch Lane | |||||||
| 3 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Dewsbury | 3-0 | Hull | Crown Flatt | [3] | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Hull KR | 16-7 | Keighley | Craven Street (off Holderness Road) | |||||||
| 5 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | Leeds | 11-2 | Huddersfield | Headingley | |||||||
| 6 | Sat 15 Oct 1921 | York | 3-4 | Wakefield Trinity | Clarence Street | |||||||
| 7 | Halifax | bye | ||||||||||
| 8 | Featherstone Rovers | bye |
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Batley | 5-5 | Bramley | Mount Pleasant | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Dewsbury | 15-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Featherstone Rovers | 0-12 | Hull KR | Post Office Road | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Sat 29 Oct 1921 | Leeds | 20-2 | Halifax | Headingley |
Round 2 - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Wed 2 Nov 1921 | Bramley | 6-0 | Batley | Barley Mow |
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 12 Nov 1921 | Bramley | 4-11 | Leeds | Barley Mow | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 12 Nov 1921 | Dewsbury | 8-3 | Hull KR | Crown Flatt |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 26 November 1921 | Leeds | 11-3 | Dewsbury | Thrum Hall | 20000 | 1650 | 2 3 | [4][5] |
Teams and Scorers[6]
| Leeds | № | Dewsbury |
|---|---|---|
| teams | team unknown | |
| Roberts | 1 | |
| Syd Walmsley | 2 | |
| Wm A Davies | 3 | |
| Janes "Jim" Bacon | 4 | |
| W H Davies | 5 | |
| Joe Brittain | 6 | |
| Archie Brown | 7 | |
| Bernard Gould | 8 | |
| Hardaker | 9 | |
| Godwad | 10 | |
| Boagey | 11 | |
| Pearson | 12 | |
| Billy Ward? | 13 | |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 11 | score | 3 |
| 8 | HT | 3 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| James "Jim" Bacon (2) | T | 1 |
| Syd Walmsley (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| 1 | G | |
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | unknown | |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 5 (0) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 5 (6) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes
1 * Featherstone Rovers played their first Yorkshire Cup match since being elected to the league, and at Post Office Road
2 * The attendance is given as 22,001 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but only 20,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5]
3 * Thrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.
See also
- 1921-22 Northern Rugby Football Union season
- Rugby league county cups
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- ↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
- ↑ "Leeds Rhinos history".