1931 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 15 | |||
| Winners | Huddersfield | |||
| Runners-up | Hunslet | |||
| ||||
The 1931 Yorkshire Cup was the twenty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Huddersfield won the trophy (for the eighth time) by beating Hunslet in the final by the score of 4-2.
Background
General information for those unfamiliar
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
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 one bye 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 | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | Batley | 4-24 | Leeds | Mount Pleasant | |||||||
| 2 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | Bradford Northern | 5-11 | Huddersfield | Birch Lane | |||||||
| 3 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | Castleford | 4-12 | Dewsbury | Wheldon Road | |||||||
| 4 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | Hull | 33-7 | Keighley | Boulevard | [3] | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | Hull KR | 6-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Craven Park (1) | |||||||
| 6 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | Hunslet | 50-11 | Bramley | Parkside | |||||||
| 7 | Sat 10 Oct 1931 | York | 3-0 | Halifax | Clarence Street | |||||||
| 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 | Wed 14 Oct 1931 | Hunslet | 27-7 | Hull KR | Parkside | ||||||
| 2 | Mon 19 Oct 1931 | Featherstone Rovers | 5-15 | Huddersfield | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 3 | Tue 20 Oct 1931 | Dewsbury | 5-9 | Hull | Crown Flatt | [3] | |||||
| 4 | Wed 21 Oct 1931 | Leeds | 9-14 | York | Headingley |
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 | Wed 4 Nov 1931 | York | 2-2 | Huddersfield | Clarence Street | ||||||
| 2 | Thu 5 Nov 1931 | Hull | 0-15 | Hunslet | Boulevard | [3] |
Semi-Final - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Mon 9 Nov 1931 | Huddersfield | 10-7 | York | Fartown |
Final
The final was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 27,800 and receipts were £1,764. The attendance was the second highest attendance recorded to date at the Yorkshire Cup final behind the record of 33,719 from 1922.
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 21 November 1931 | Huddersfield | 4-2 | Hunslet | Headingley | 27,800 | £1,764 | 1 2 | [4][5] |
Teams and Scorers[6]
| Huddersfield | № | Hunslet |
|---|---|---|
| team unknown | teams | team unknown |
| J. William "Willie" Stocks | 1 | |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ||
| Leonard Bowkett | 4 | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 4 | score | 2 |
| 2 | HT | 0 |
| Scorers | ||
| Goals | ||
| Leonard Bowkett (1) | G | |
| J. William "Willie" Stocks (1) | G | |
| 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 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 2 (7) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 2 (10) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 33 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes
1 * The attendance is given as 27,800 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but 27,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5]
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
- 1931-32 Northern Rugby Football League 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "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.
- ↑ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1931-32" (PDF).