1950 Yorkshire Cup

1950-51 Yorkshire Cup
Structure Regional knockout championship
Number of teams 16
Winners Huddersfield
Runners-up Castleford
< 1949 Seasons 1951 >

1950 Yorkshire Cup

1950 was the forty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Huddersfield won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 16-3
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 28,610 and receipts were £5,152

Background

This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.

Competition and Results[1][2]

Round 1 - First Leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

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

1Sat 2 Sep 1950Featherstone Rovers7-20LeedsPost Office Road
2Sat 2 Sep 1950Hull KR9-0BatleyCraven Park (1)
3Sat 2 Sep 1950Keighley9-14CastlefordLawkholme Lane
4Sat 2 Sep 1950Yorkshire Amateurs2-35HunsletHeadingley1
5Sat 2 Sep 1950Wakefield Trinity43-4YorkBelle Vue
6Sat 2 Sep 1950Dewsbury14-2HullCrown Flatt[3]
7Sat 2 Sep 1950Halifax5-5Bradford NorthernThrum Hall
8Sat 2 Sep 1950Bramley22-21HuddersfieldBarley Mow

Round 1 - Second Leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

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

1Mon 4 Sep 1950Leeds20-9Featherstone RoversHeadingley40-16
2Tue 5 Sep 1950Batley21-4Hull KRMount Pleasant21-13
3Wed 6 Sep 1950Castleford2-4KeighleyWheldon Road 16-13
4Wed 6 Sep 1950Hunslet26-2Yorkshire AmateursParkside61-41
5Wed 6 Sep 1950York2-23Wakefield TrinityClarence Street6-66
6Tue 12 Sep 1950Hull2-2DewsburyBoulevard4-16[3]
7Wed 13 Sep 1950Bradford Northern12-4HalifaxOdsal15-9
8Wed 13 Sep 1950Huddersfield39-5BramleyFartown60-27

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis

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

1Mon 18 Sep 1950Leeds2-29HuddersfieldHeadingley
2Tue 19 Sep 1950Batley10-8Wakefield TrinityMount Pleasant
3Wed 20 Sep 1950Bradford Northern0-4CastlefordOdsal
4Wed 20 Sep 1950Hunslet3-2DewsburyParkside

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

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

1Fri 6 Oct 1950Hunslet7-20HuddersfieldParkside
2Tue 10 Oct 1950Batley2-2CastlefordMount Pleasant

Round 3 – Semi-Finals - Replay

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

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

RFri 13 Oct 1950Castleford13-9BatleyWheldon Road

Final

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

Saturday 4 November 1950Huddersfield16-3CastlefordHeadingley28,610£5,1522 3[4][5]

Teams and Scorers[6]

Huddersfield Castleford
teams
1
2
3
4
5
Russell Pepperell (position uncertain)6
7
8
9
James Bowden (position uncertain)10
11
12
13
??Coach??
16score3
7HT3
Scorers
Tries
Russell Pepperell (2)T
Goals
James Bowden (5)G
Refereeunknown ()

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

The road to success

All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Yorkshire Amateurs 4
Hunslet 61
Hunslet 3
Dewsbury 2
Dewsbury 16
Hull 4
Hunslet 7
Huddersfield 20
Featherstone Rovers 16
Leeds 40
Leeds 2
Huddersfield 29
Bramley 27
Huddersfield 61
Huddersfield 16
Castleford 3
Hull KR 13
Batley 21
Batley 10
Wakefield Trinity 8
Wakefield Trinity 66
York 6
Batley 2 (9)
Castleford 2 (13)
Halifax 9
Bradford Northern 15
Bradford Northern 0
Castleford 4
Keighley 13
Castleford 16

Notes and comments

1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this year the home leg was played at Headingley, the ground of Leeds
2 * The attendance is given as 28,610 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but 28,906 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4][5]
3 * 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.

General information for those unfamiliar

The Rugby League 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)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. 4.0 4.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  6. "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1950-51" (PDF).

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