1963 Yorkshire Cup

1963–64 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Halifax
Runners-up	Featherstone Rovers

The 1963 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Halifax won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 10-0
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,238 and receipts were £2,471.

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants 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

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Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs

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

1	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Batley	6-13	Dewsbury	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Bradford Northern	10-24	Featherstone Rovers	Odsal
3	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Doncaster	3-2	York	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
4	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Halifax	29-5	Keighley	Thrum Hall
5	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Huddersfield	25-9	Hull F.C.	Fartown	5,906	^[6]^[5]
6	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Hull Kingston Rovers	17-11	Bramley	Craven Park (1)
7	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Hunslet	4-9	Wakefield Trinity	Parkside		^[7]
8	Sat 7 Sep 1963	Leeds	20-3	Castleford	Headingley

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

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

1	Tue 17 Sep 1963	Dewsbury	17-13	Hull Kingston Rovers	Crown Flatt
2	Tue 17 Sep 1963	Featherstone Rovers	22-12	Leeds	Post Office Road
3	Mon 23 Sep 1963	Huddersfield	27-0	Doncaster	Fartown	3,923	^[5]
4	Mon 23 Sep 1963	Wakefield Trinity	4-12	Halifax	Belle Vue		^[7]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

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

1	Tue 1 Oct 1963	Dewsbury	9-10	Halifax	Crown Flatt
2	Wed 9 Oct 1963	Featherstone Rovers	22-9	Huddersfield	Post Office Road	7,200	^[5]

Final

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

	Saturday 2 November 1963	Halifax		10-0		Featherstone Rovers	Belle Vue	13,238	£2,471	1	^[8]^[9]^[3]

Teams and Scorers

Halifax	№	Featherstone Rovers

	teams
Ronald James	1	Jack "Jackie" Fennell
Duncan Jackson	2	Kenneth "Ken" Greatorex
John Burnett	3	Jim Hunt
Colin Dixon	4	Anthony "Tony" Lynch
Johnny Freeman	5	Gary Jordan
Barry Robinson	6	Ivor Lingard
Alan Marchant	7	Don Fox
Frank Fox	8	Abe Terry
John 'Joby' Shaw	9	Willis Fawley
Jack Scroby	10	Malcolm Dixon
W. Philips	11	Terry Ramshaw
Terry Fogerty	12	Harry Brown
Charlie Renilson	13	Colin Clifft
??	Coach	John Malpass

10	score	0
2	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
John Jackson (1)	T
Charlie Renilson (1)	T
	Goals
Ronald James (2)	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		Dennis Davies (Manchester)

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


Batley	6

Dewsbury	13
		Dewsbury	17

		Hull Kingston Rovers	13
Hull Kingston Rovers	17

Bramley	11
				Dewsbury	9

				Halifax	10
Hunslet	4

Wakefield Trinity	9
		Wakefield Trinity	4

		Halifax	12
Halifax	29

Keighley	5
						Halifax	10

						Featherstone Rovers	0
Bradford Northern	10

Featherstone Rovers	24
		Featherstone Rovers	22

		Leeds	12
Leeds	20

Castleford	3
				Featherstone Rovers	22

				Huddersfield	9
Huddersfield	25

Hull F.C.	9
		Huddersfield	27

		Doncaster	0
Doncaster	3

York	2

Notes and comments

1 * 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.
1 2 Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.
↑ HC&AC committee (1964). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1964 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
1 2 3 4 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1964" (PDF).
↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
1 2 J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
↑ 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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