1958 Yorkshire Cup

The 1958 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-first occasion on which the competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 24-20.

1958–59 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Leeds
Runners-up	Wakefield Trinity

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	Rec	Notes	Ref
1	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Batley		21-5		Featherstone Rovers	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Bradford Northern		23-31		York	Odsal
3	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Bramley		16-34		Hull F.C.	Barley Mow				[7]
4	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Castleford		5-33		Hull Kingston Rovers	Wheldon Road
5	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Dewsbury		12-29		Keighley	Crown Flatt
6	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Halifax		52-0		Doncaster	Thrum Hall
7	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Leeds		64-17		Huddersfield	Headingley	15600			[5]
8	Sat 30 Aug 1958	Wakefield Trinity		10-10		Hunslet	Belle Vue

Round 1 - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
R	Wed 3 Sep 1958	Hunslet		11-15		Wakefield Trinity	Parkside

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
1	Tue 9 Sep 1958	Batley		23-7		Hull Kingston Rovers	Mount Pleasant
2	Tue 9 Sep 1958	Halifax		15-19		York	Thrum Hall
3	Tue 9 Sep 1958	Hull F.C.		16-17		Wakefield Trinity	Boulevard				[7][3]
4	Wed 10 Sep 1958	Leeds		17-15		Keighley	Headingley

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
1	Wed 17 Sep 1958	York		10-13		Leeds	Clarence Street
2	Wed 1 Oct 1958	Wakefield Trinity		21-13		Batley	Belle Vue

Final

The 1958 Yorkshire Cup Final was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 26,927 and receipts were £3,833.

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Saturday 18 October 1958	Leeds		24-20		Wakefield Trinity	Odsal	26,927	£3,833	1 2	[8][9][3]

Teams and scorers

Leeds	№	Wakefield Trinity
	teams
Pat Quinn	1	Frank Mortimer
Garry Hemingway	2	Fred Smith
Jack Lendill (or Peter Lendill?)	3	Donald "Don" Metcalfe
Lewis Jones	4	Neil Fox
Del Hodgkinson	5	Stan Smith
Gordon Brown	6	Keith Holliday
Jeff Stevenson	7	Ken Rollin
Skelton	8	Wilfred "Wilf" Adams
Barry Simms	9	S John "Joby" Shaw
Colin Tomlinson	10	Samuel "Sam" Evans
Don Robinson	11	Bob Kelly
Ward (Fred Ward?)	12	Leslie "Les" Chamberlain
Dick	13	Ken Traill
probably Joe Warham	Coach	Ken Traill
24	score	20
18	HT	7
	Scorers
	Tries
6	T	Donald "Don" Metcalfe (3)
Barry Simms (1)	T	Ken Rollin (1)
	T
	T
	Goals
3	G	Frank Mortimer (2)
	G	Neil Fox (2)
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		unknown

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

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The road to success

	First Round					Second Round					Semi Finals					Final
	Halifax		52
	Doncaster		0
						Halifax		15
						York		19
	Bradford Northern		23
	York		31
											York		10
											Leeds		13
	Leeds		64
	Huddersfield		17
						Leeds		17
						Keighley		15
	Dewsbury		12
	Keighley		29
																Leeds		24
																Wakefield Trinity		20
	Bramley		16
	Hull F.C.		34
						Hull F.C.		16
						Wakefield Trinity		17
	Wakefield Trinity		10 (15)
	Hunslet		10 (11)
											Wakefield Trinity		21
											Batley		13
	Batley		21
	Featherstone Rovers		5
						Batley		23
						Hull Kingston Rovers		7
	Castleford		5
	Hull Kingston Rovers		33

See also

• Rugby league county cups

References

1. "Rugby League Project".
2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
3. David Jack (1958). Empire News Football Annual 1958–59 - 72nd year. Empire News and Sunday Chronicle.
4. HC&AC committee (1959). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1959 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
5. "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1959" (PDF).
6. 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.
7. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
8. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
9. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

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