1919 (Autumn) Yorkshire Cup

Autumn 1919 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1919 (Spring)	Seasons	1920 >

The Autumn 1919 Yorkshire Cup was the twelfth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This season saw the junior/amateur club Featherstone Rovers being invited again, and this, together with the restart-up of Keighley after the wartime close-down, resulted in an increase of one bringing the total entries up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in two byes in the first round.

This year saw the cup holders retain the trophy after winning for the fourth successive time, with Huddersfield winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 24-5 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 24,935 and receipts were ££2,096. This was Huddersfield's seventh appearance in what had been seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and this season (which included four successive victories and six in total), and who knows, but for the intervention of the First World War and suspension of the competition, it may have been more. It was also the fourth consequertive win.

Background

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 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^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 Clubs

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

1	Sat 18 Oct 1919	Bradford Northern	3-5	Batley	Birch Lane
2	Sat 18 Oct 1919	Bramley	18-5	Hull KR	Barley Mow
3	Sat 18 Oct 1919	Featherstone Rovers	15-4	Keighley	Post Office Road	1
4	Sat 18 Oct 1919	Halifax	4-9	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall
5	Sat 18 Oct 1919	Leeds	8-5	Dewsbury	Headingley
6	Sat 18 Oct 1919	York	10-5	Hunslet	Clarence Street
7		Hull		bye			^[3]
8		Wakefield Trinity		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 1 Nov 1919	Batley	12-2	Featherstone Rovers	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 1 Nov 1919	Huddersfield	33-8	Hull	Fartown	^[3]
3	Sat 1 Nov 1919	Leeds	14-4	Bramley	Headingley
4	Sat 1 Nov 1919	Wakefield Trinity	4-3	York	Belle Vue

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 15 Nov 1919	Huddersfield	15-5	Wakefield Trinity	Fartown
2	Sat 15 Nov 1919	Leeds	16-5	Batley	Headingley

Final

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

	Saturday 29 November 1919	Huddersfield		24-5		Leeds	Thrum Hall	24935	£2,096	2	^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[3]^[6]

Huddersfield	№	Leeds

actual position unsure	teams
	1
Stan Moorhouse	2
	3
	4
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld	5
	6
Johnny Rogers	7
	8
Douglas Clark	9
Ben Gronow	10
	11
R Habron	?
	13
??	Coach	??

24	score	5
13	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Stan Moorhouse (4)	T
R Habron (1)	T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)	T
	Goals
Ben Gronow (3)	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


Halifax	4

Huddersfield	9
		Huddersfield	33

		Hull	8
Hull

bye
				Huddersfield	15

				Wakefield Trinity	5
Wakefield Trinity

bye
		Wakefield Trinity	4

		York	3
York	10

Hunslet	5
						Huddersfield	24

						Leeds	5
Leeds	8

Dewsbury	5
		Leeds	14

		Bramley	4
Bramley	18

Hull KR	5
				Leeds	16

				Batley	5
Bradford Northern	3

Batley	5
		Batley	12

		Featherstone Rovers	2
Featherstone Rovers	15

Keighley	4

Notes

1 * Featherstone Rovers were at the time a junior/amateut club. They eventually joined the League for season 1921-22
2 * Thrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.

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".
↑ 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.
↑ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1919-20" (PDF).

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