1906 Yorkshire Cup

1906 Yorkshire Cup

1906-07 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Bradford

Runners-up

Hull KR

< 1905	Seasons	1907 >

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)
1906 was the second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
This year there were two new clubs to contest the final.
Bradford won the trophy by beating Hull KR by the score of 8-5
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 10,500 and receipts were £286

Background

Brighouse Rangers, Castleford (1896) and Normanton left the league and the three non league clubs from last season were not invited, but they were replaced by junior/amateur club New Blackpool. This resulted in an overall decrease of five clubs, leving a total of fifteen entrants.
This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.
Pontefract resigned after 8 league matches and their record was expunged, but by this time, they had played (and lost) in this competition.

Competition and Results^[1]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 Clubs

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

1	Sat 13 Oct 1906	Bradford	68-2	Bramley	Park Avenue
2	Sat 13 Oct 1906	Dewsbury	10-27	Huddersfield	Crown Flatt
3	Sat 13 Oct 1906	Hull	3-6	Halifax	Boulevard		^[2]
4	Sat 13 Oct 1906	Hull KR	44-0	Pontefract	Craven Street (off Holderness Road)
5	Sat 13 Oct 1906	Keighley	34-2	New Blackpool	Lawkholme Lane	2
6	Sat 13 Oct 1906	Wakefield Trinity	7-19	Leeds	Belle Vue
7	Sat 13 Oct 1906	York	8-7	Batley	Clarence Street
8		Hunslet		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 27 Oct 1906	Bradford	21-5	Leeds	Park Avenue
2	Sat 27 Oct 1906	Halifax	6-0	Hunslet	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 27 Oct 1906	Hull KR	11-3	Huddersfield	Craven Street (off Holderness Road)
4	Sat 27 Oct 1906	Keighley	34-2	York	Lawkholme Lane

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 17 Nov 1906	Bradford	6-4	Halifax	Park Avenue
2	Sat 17 Nov 1906	Hull KR	21-0	Keighley	Craven Street (off Holderness Road)

Final

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

	Saturday 1 December 1906	Bradford		8-5		Hull KR	Belle Vue	10500	286	3	^[3]^[4]

Teams and Scorers

Bradford	№	Hull KR

team unknown	teams	team unknown
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11
	12
	13
	14
	15
	Coach

8	score	5
8	HT	3

	Scorers
	Tries
	T
	T
	Goals
	G
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		unknown ()

Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

The road to success

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


Bradford	68

Bramley	2
		Bradford	21

		Leeds	5
Wakefield Trinity	7

Leeds	19
				Bradford	6

				Keighley	4
Keighley	34

New Blackpool	2
		Keighley	34

		York	2
York	8

Batley	7
						Bradford	8

						Hull KR	5
Hull KR	44

Pontefract	0
		Hull KR	11

		Huddersfield	3
Dewsbury	10

Huddersfield	27
				Hull KR	21

				Halifax	0
Hull	3

Halifax	6
		Halifax	6

		Hunslet	0
Hunslet

bye

Notes and comments

1 * This was a record score at the time in the competition
2 * New Blackpool is/was a junior/amateur club from ? (possibly Leeds area - can anyone shed light on this ?)
3 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results 1896/1897".
↑ 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.

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