1959 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Featherstone Rovers | |||
| Runners-up | Hull F.C. | |||
| ||||
1959 Yorkshire Cup
1959 was the fifty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
For the first time in fourteen years a new name appears on the Yorkshire Cup. Featherstone Rovers who previously won the trophy in the Spring 1940 Wartime competition can now lay claim to a genuine trophy (The wartime competitions were not counted officially in the records)
Featherstone Rovers won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 15-14
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 23,983 and receipts were £4156
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Competition and Results[1][2]
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri 28 Aug 1959 | Leeds | 28-14 | Keighley | Headingley | |||||||
| 2 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Bradford Northern | 10-23 | Hull F.C. | Odsal | [6] | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Bramley | 17-10 | York | Barley Mow | |||||||
| 4 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Dewsbury | 27-14 | Castleford | Crown Flatt | |||||||
| 5 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 24-9 | Hull KR | Post Office Road | |||||||
| 6 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Halifax | 17-14 | Wakefield Trinity | Thrum Hall | |||||||
| 7 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Huddersfield | 46-12 | Doncaster | Fartown | 3809 | [5] | |||||
| 8 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Hunslet | 46-8 | Batley | Parkside |
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 | Mon 7 Sep 1959 | Leeds | 15-10 | Hunslet | Headingley | ||||||
| 2 | Tue 8 Sep 1959 | Bramley | 14-17 | Hull F.C. | Barley Mow | [6] | |||||
| 3 | Wed 9 Sep 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 32-18 | Dewsbury | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 4 | Mon 14 Sep 1959 | Huddersfield | 9-16 | Halifax | Fartown | 11435 | [5] |
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 | Thu 24 Sep 1959 | Hull F.C. | 18-9 | Halifax | Boulevard | [6] | |||||
| 2 | Wed 30 Sep 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 14-7 | Leeds | Post Office Road |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 31 October 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 15-14 | Hull F.C. | Headingley | 23,983 | £4,156 | 1 | [6][7][8][3] |
Teams and Scorers
| Featherstone Rovers | № | Hull F.C. |
|---|---|---|
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| 1 | ||
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| 13 | ||
| Harold Moxon | Coach | Roy Francis |
| 15 | score | 14 |
| 13 | HT | 7 |
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
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.
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
- 1959-60 Northern Rugby Football League season
- Rugby league county cups
References
- ↑ "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 David Jack and Malcolm Gunn (1959). Empire News Football Annual 19560-61 - 74th year. Empire News and Sunday Chronicle.
- ↑ HC&AC Committee (1960). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1960 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 HC&AC Committee (1960). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1960 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "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.