1907 Yorkshire Cup

1907–08 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1906	Seasons	1908 >

The 1907 Yorkshire Cup was the third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This year's final was a repeat of the first cup final in 1905 with the same two clubs and the same outcome. Hunslet won the trophy for the second time in three years by beating Halifax by the score of 17–0
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts were £397

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, Pontefract folded part way through the last season, and last years cup winner and cup holder, Bradford, became turncoats to play with the round ball. As replacement, a new club Bradford Northern joined the league, resulting in an overall decrease of two from 1906, and giving a total of thirteen entrants.
This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.

Competition and Results^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs

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

1	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Halifax	10–5	Batley	Thrum Hall
2	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Hull	21–10	Keighley	Boulevard		^[3]
3	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Hunslet	50–0	Bramley	Parkside
4	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Leeds	16–2	Hull KR	Headingley
5	Sat 09 Nov 1907	York	14–15	Bradford Northern	Clarence Street	1
6	09 Nov 1907	Dewsbury	0	bye
7	09 Nov 1907	Huddersfield	0	bye
8	09 Nov 1907	Wakefield Trinity	0	bye

Round 2 – Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Dewsbury	3–15	Hull	Crown Flatt	^[3]
2	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Halifax	31–0	Bradford Northern	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Huddersfield	2–2	Wakefield Trinity	Fartown
4	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Hunslet	17–10	Leeds	Parkside

Round 2 – Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

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

R	Wed 27 Nov 1907	Wakefield Trinity		12–0		Huddersfield	Belle Vue

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 07 Dec 1907	Hull	2–16	Halifax	Boulevard	^[3]
2	Sat 07 Dec 1907	Hunslet	10–0	Wakefield Trinity	Parkside

Final

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

	Saturday 21 December 1907	Hunslet		17–0		Halifax	Headingley	15,000	397	2	^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[6]

Hunslet	№	Halifax

	teams
Billy Batten	1
Fred Farrar	2
Fred Smith	3
Walter Goldthorpe	4
Herbert Place	5
Harry Cappleman	6
Albert Goldthorpe	7
Tom Walsh	8
Harry Wilson	9
Jack Randle	10
William "Bill" 'Tubby' Brookes	11
Bill Jukes	12
John Willie Higson	13
	Coach

17	score	0
4	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
	T
	T
	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


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 * 1 * First Yorkshire Cup match played by newly formed club Bradford Northern who replaced Bradford who had converted to Soccer
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.

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)

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
1 2 3 "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.
↑ "Hunslet Remembered".

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