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1950–51 Yorkshire Cup

1950–51 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersHuddersfield
Runners-upCastleford

1950–51 was the forty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Huddersfield won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 16-3

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 28,610 and receipts were £5,152

Background

This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.

This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.

The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.

Competition and results

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Round 1 – first leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Featherstone Rovers 7-20 Leeds Post Office Road
2 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Hull Kingston Rovers 9-0 Batley Craven Park (1)
3 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Keighley 9-14 Castleford Lawkholme Lane
4 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Yorkshire Amateurs 2-35 Hunslet Headingley 1
5 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Wakefield Trinity 43-4 York Belle Vue
6 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Dewsbury 14-2 Hull Crown Flatt [3]
7 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Halifax 5-5 Bradford Northern Thrum Hall
8 Sat 2 Sep 1950 Bramley 22-21 Huddersfield Barley Mow

Round 1 – second leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 4 Sep 1950 Leeds 20-9 Featherstone Rovers Headingley 40-16
2 Tue 5 Sep 1950 Batley 21-4 Hull Kingston Rovers Mount Pleasant 21-13
3 Wed 6 Sep 1950 Castleford 2-4 Keighley Wheldon Road 16-13
4 Wed 6 Sep 1950 Hunslet 26-2 Yorkshire Amateurs Parkside 61-4 1
5 Wed 6 Sep 1950 York 2-23 Wakefield Trinity Clarence Street 6-66
6 Tue 12 Sep 1950 Hull 2-2 Dewsbury Boulevard 4-16 [3]
7 Wed 13 Sep 1950 Bradford Northern 12-4 Halifax Odsal 15-9
8 Wed 13 Sep 1950 Huddersfield 39-5 Bramley Fartown 60-27

Round 2 - quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 18 Sep 1950 Leeds 2-29 Huddersfield Headingley
2 Tue 19 Sep 1950 Batley 10-8 Wakefield Trinity Mount Pleasant
3 Wed 20 Sep 1950 Bradford Northern 0-4 Castleford Odsal
4 Wed 20 Sep 1950 Hunslet 3-2 Dewsbury Parkside

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 6 Oct 1950 Hunslet 7-20 Huddersfield Parkside
2 Tue 10 Oct 1950 Batley 2-2 Castleford Mount Pleasant

Round 3 – semifinals - Replay

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
R Fri 13 Oct 1950 Castleford 13-9 Batley Wheldon Road

Final

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 4 November 1950 Huddersfield 16-3 Castleford Headingley 28,610 £5,152 2 3 [4][5]

Teams and scorers

Huddersfield № Castleford
teams
Johnny Hunter 1 Ron Lewis
Dick Cracknell 2 Reg Lloyd
Jim Bowden 3 George Broughton Jr.
I W Clark 4 Percy Aldred
Lionel Cooper 5 Len Brown
Russ Pepperell 6 Arthur Fisher
Billy Banks 7 George Langfield
Frank Wagstaff 8 Joe Anderson
Jim Mundy 9 Jimmy Jones
Arthur Wilmot 10 Leo Fleming
Bob Nicholson 11 George Howard
Ike Owens 12 Leslie Haughey
Dave Valentine 13 Frank Mugglestone
?? Coach ??
16 score 3
7 HT 3
Scorers
Tries
Russ Pepperell (2) T Reg Lloyd (1)
Goals
James Bowden (5) G
Referee Ron Gelder (Wakefield)
Man of the Match Billy Banks

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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The road to success

All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.

For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.

For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Yorkshire Amateurs 4
Hunslet 61
Hunslet 3
Dewsbury 2
Dewsbury 16
Hull 4
Hunslet 7
Huddersfield 20
Featherstone Rovers 16
Leeds 40
Leeds 2
Huddersfield 29
Bramley 27
Huddersfield 61
Huddersfield 16
Castleford 3
Hull Kingston Rovers 13
Batley 21
Batley 10
Wakefield Trinity 8
Wakefield Trinity 66
York 6
Batley 2 (9)
Castleford 2 (13)
Halifax 9
Bradford Northern 15
Bradford Northern 0
Castleford 4
Keighley 13
Castleford 16

Notes and comments

1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this year the home leg was played at Headingley, the ground of Leeds

2 * The attendance is given as 28,610 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but 28,906 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4][5]

3 * 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)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  6. ^ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1950–51" (PDF).
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Yorkshire_Cup