1911 Yorkshire Cup

1911 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	13
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Hull Kingston Rovers

The 1911 Yorkshire Cup was the seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year saw a previous winner, Huddersfield, win the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 22-10
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £700. This was Huddersfield's third appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.)

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's new entrant Coventry left to join the Lancashire Cup, reducing the number of entries by one to a total of thirteen. 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	Ref

1	Sat 11 Oct 1911	Hull	2-8	Hunslet	Boulevard	^[3]
2	Sat 14 Oct 1911	Bramley	3-25	Dewsbury	Barley Mow
3	Sat 14 Oct 1911	Huddersfield	15-2	Batley	Fartown
4	Sat 14 Oct 1911	Hull Kingston Rovers	23-9	Wakefield Trinity	Hull Kingston Rovers
5	Sat 14 Oct 1911	Leeds	17-5	Keighley	Headingley
6		Bradford Northern		bye
7		Halifax		bye
8		York		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Notes

1	Sat 14 Oct 1911	Bradford Northern	9-24	Hunslet	Birch Lane	1
2	Sat 28 Oct 1911	Huddersfield	34-6	Dewsbury	Fartown
3	Sat 28 Oct 1911	Hull Kingston Rovers	15-2	York	Hull Kingston Rovers
4	Sat 28 Oct 1911	Leeds	9-2	Halifax	Headingley

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 11 Nov 1911	Hunslet	3-5	Huddersfield	Parkside
2	Sat 11 Nov 1911	Leeds	0-11	Hull Kingston Rovers	Headingley

Final

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

	Saturday 25 November 1911	Huddersfield		22-10		Hull Kingston Rovers	Belle Vue	20000	700	2	^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[6]

Huddersfield	№	Hull Kingston Rovers

actual position unsure	teams	team unknown
	1
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld	2
Harold Wagstaff	3
	4
Stan Moorhouse	5
Edgar Wrigley	6
Thomas Grey	7
John Higson	8
Douglas Clark	9
	10
	11
	12
	13
??	Coach	(??)

22	score	10
16	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
John Higson (1)	T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)	T
Edgar Wrigley (1)	T
Harold Wagstaff (1)	T
Stan Moorhouse (1)	T
Thomas Grey (1)	T
	Goals
Thomas Grey 2	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 Northern

bye
		Bradford Northern	9

		Hunslet	24
Hull	2

Hunslet	8
				Hunslet	3

				Huddersfield	6
Huddersfield	16

Batley	2
		Huddersfield	34

		Dewsbury	6
Bramley	3

Dewsbury	25
						Huddersfield	22

						Hull Kingston Rovers	10
Leeds	17

Keighley	5
		Leeds	9

		Halifax	2
Halifax

bye
				Leeds	0

				Hull Kingston Rovers	11
Hull Kingston Rovers	23

Wakefield Trinity	9
		Hull Kingston Rovers	15

		York	2
York

bye

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup game played at this ground, to which Bradford Northern moved for season 1908-09 2 * 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

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.
↑ "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 1911–12" (PDF).

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