1949–50 Yorkshire Cup

1949–50 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersBradford Northern
Runners-upHuddersfield
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1949–50 was the forty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Huddersfield by the score of 11-4.

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 36,000, a record never to be beaten, and receipts were £6,365.

This was the second of two successive wins for Bradford Northern

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

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 10 Sep 1949 Huddersfield 13-5 Leeds Fartown
2 Sat 10 Sep 1949 Hunslet 7-10 Dewsbury Parkside
3 Sat 10 Sep 1949 Batley 10-7 Halifax Mount Pleasant
4 Sat 10 Sep 1949 Castleford 12-8 Hull Wheldon Road [1]
5 Sat 10 Sep 1949 York 11-28 Bradford Northern Clarence Street
6 Sat 10 Sep 1949 Hull Kingston Rovers 6-3 Bramley Craven Park (1)
7 Sat 10 Sep 1949 Wakefield Trinity 19-12 Featherstone Rovers Belle Vue
8 Sat 10 Sep 1949 Keighley 45-2 Yorkshire Amateurs Lawkholme Lane 1

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 12 Sep 1949 Leeds 8-16 Huddersfield Headingley 13-29
2 Tue 13 Sep 1949 Dewsbury 19-0 Hunslet Crown Flatt 29-7
3 Tue 13 Sep 1949 Halifax 2-7 Batley Thrum Hall 9-17
4 Tue 13 Sep 1949 Hull 13-13 Castleford Boulevard 21-25 2 [1]
5 Wed 14 Sep 1949 Bradford Northern 25-11 York Odsal 53-22
6 Wed 14 Sep 1949 Bramley 13-4 Hull Kingston Rovers Barley Mow 16-10
7 Wed 14 Sep 1949 Featherstone Rovers 2-12 Wakefield Trinity Post Office Road 14-31
8 Thu 15 Sep 1949 Yorkshire Amateurs 8-15 Keighley Mount Pleasant 10-60 1

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 Wed 21 Sep 1949 Bradford Northern 13-6 Castleford Odsal
2 Wed 21 Sep 1949 Bramley 5-4 Keighley Barley Mow
3 Wed 28 Sep 1949 Huddersfield 20-12 Wakefield Trinity Fartown 21737 [2]
4 Thu 29 Sep 1949 Dewsbury 12-5 Batley Crown Flatt

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 Wed 12 Oct 1949 Bramley 6-8 Bradford Northern Barley Mow
2 Wed 19 Oct 1949 Dewsbury 2-7 Huddersfield Crown Flatt

Final

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 29 October 1949 Bradford Northern 11-4 Huddersfield Headingley 36,000 £6,365 3 4 [3][4]

Teams and scorers

Bradford Northern No. Huddersfield
teams
Billy Leake 1 E. Swallow
Eric Batten 2 George Wilson
Jack Kitching 3 Jeff Bawden
Ernest Ward 4 Pat Devery
Emlyn Walters 5 Lionel Cooper
Willie Davies 6 Russell Pepperell
Donald Ward 7 Billy Banks
Eric Day 8 John Maiden
Victor "Vic" Darlison 9 Mel Meek
Ron Greaves 10 John "Jack" Daly
Trevor Foster 11 Ike Owens
Barry Tyler 12 Bob Nicholson
Ken Traill 13 Dave Valentine (c)
Dai Rees Coach ??
11 score 4
4 HT 2
Scorers
Tries
Willie Davies (1) T
Goals
Ernest Ward (4) G Jeff Bawden (2)
Referee Mr. W. Hemmings (Halifax)

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
            
Hull Kingston Rovers 10
Bramley 16
Bramley 5
Keighley 4
Keighley 60
Yorkshire Amateurs 10
Bramley 6
Bradford Northern 8
York 22
Bradford Northern 53
Bradford Northern 13
Castleford 6
Castleford 25
Hull 21
Bradford Northern 11
Huddersfield 4
Hunslet 7
Dewsbury 29
Dewsbury 12
Batley 5
Batley 17
Halifax 9
Dewsbury 2
Huddersfield 7
Huddersfield 29
Leeds 13
Huddersfield 20
Wakefield Trinity 12
Wakefield Trinity 31
Featherstone Rovers 14

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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 match was played at Parkside, the ground of Hunslet

2 * The date is given by RUGBYLEAGUEproject xx as Tuesday 13 September, but by the official Hull F.C. archives as Wednesday 14 September

3 * The attendance was a new record, never to be beaten, and beating the previous of 34,300 set in 1946

4 * 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 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  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.
  3. ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  4. ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  5. ^ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1949–50" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Match Programme Yorkshire Cup Final 1949" (PDF).
  7. ^ Yorks RL Assos (1949). Match programme Bradford Northern v Huddersfield 1949 Yorkshire Cup Final. Yorkshire RL Association.
  8. ^ "Rugby League Project".
  9. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.

External links

  • Saints Heritage Society
  • 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com
  • Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
  • Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
  • The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org
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