1929 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1928	Seasons	1930 >

The 1929 Yorkshire Cup was the twenty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Hull KR won the trophy for the second time in their history, beating Hunslet in the final by the score of 13-7. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,000 and receipts were £687

Background

The Rugby Football League's Yorkshire Cup 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

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at fifteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Bramley	2-0	York	Barley Mow
2	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Dewsbury	16-10	Featherstone Rovers	Crown Flatt
3	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Halifax	18-5	Castleford	Thrum Hall
4	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Hull	21-4	Wakefield Trinity	Boulevard	^[3]
5	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Hull KR	8-3	Huddersfield	Craven Park (1)
6	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Keighley	9-7	Bradford Northern	Lawkholme Lane
7	Sat 19 Oct 1929	Leeds	5-11	Hunslet	Headingley
8		Batley		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Mon 28 Oct 1929	Halifax	0-3	Hull KR	Thrum Hall
2	Tue 29 Oct 1929	Keighley	4-0	Dewsbury	Lawkholme Lane
3	Wed 30 Oct 1929	Bramley	17-8	Batley	Barley Mow
4	Thu 31 Oct 1929	Hull	4-8	Hunslet	Boulevard	^[3]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Tue 12 Nov 1929	Keighley	0-3	Hunslet	Lawkholme Lane
2	Thu 14 Nov 1929	Hull KR	15-5	Bramley	Craven Park (1)

Final

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

	Saturday 30 November 1929	Hull KR		13-7		Hunslet	Headingley	11,000		1	^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers

Hull KR	№	Hunslet

team unknown	teams	team unknown
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11
	12
	13
??	Coach	??

13	score	7
13	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
	T
	T
	T
	Goals
	G
	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


Halifax	18

Castleford	5
		Halifax	0

		Hull KR	3
Hull KR	8

Huddersfield	3
				Hull KR	15

				Bramley	5
Bramley	2

York	0
		Bramley	17

		Batley	8
Batley

bye
						Hull KR	13

						Hunslet	7
Keighley	9

Bradford Northern	7
		Keighley	4

		Dewsbury	0
Dewsbury	16

Featherstone Rovers	10
				Keighley	0

				Hunslet	3
Hull	21

Wakefield Trinity	4
		Hull	4

		Hunslet	8
Leeds	5

Hunslet	11

Notes

1 * 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.

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.