1933–34 Yorkshire Cup

The 1933–34 Yorkshire Cup was the twenty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. York won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 10-4.

1933–34 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams15
WinnersYork
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

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 fifteen.

This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.

Competition and Results

[1][2]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 17 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 11 Oct 1933Featherstone Rovers7-12Hull Kingston RoversPost Office Road
2Sat 14 Oct 1933Batley7-12YorkMount Pleasant
3Sat 14 Oct 1933Castleford10-9HunsletWheldon Road
4Sat 14 Oct 1933Dewsbury4-5LeedsCrown Flatt
5Sat 14 Oct 1933Halifax23-5Wakefield TrinityThrum Hall
6Sat 14 Oct 1933Huddersfield17-4KeighleyFartown
7Sat 14 Oct 1933Hull9-7BramleyBoulevard[3]
8Bradford Northernbye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 14 Oct 1933Bradford Northern5-8HuddersfieldBirch Lane
2Wed 25 Oct 1933Halifax18-2CastlefordThrum Hall
3Wed 25 Oct 1933Leeds5-9Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley
4Wed 25 Oct 1933York13-2HullClarence Street[3]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 6 Nov 1933Halifax5-7YorkThrum Hall
2Mon 13 Nov 1933Huddersfield3-20Hull Kingston RoversFartown

Final

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,222 and receipts were £1,480.

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Sat 25 Nov 1933York10-4Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley22,222£1,4801 2[4][5]

Teams and Scorers

York No Hull Kingston Rovers
teamsteam unknown
Tommy Dingsdale1
Lou Brown2
Mel Rosser3
Jeff Moores4
Smith5
Gurnos Rees6
William Thomas7
Harry Bland8
Eddie Myers9
John10
Horace Coldrick11
Fred Elias12
Norman Fender13
??Coach??
10score4
3HT2
Scorers
Tries
T
T
Goals
G
G
Drop Goals
DG
Refereeunknown

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
            
Halifax 23
Wakefield Trinity 5
Halifax 18
Castleford 2
Castleford 10
Hunslet 9
Halifax 5
York 7
Batley 7
York 12
York 13
Hull 2
Hull 9
Bramley 7
York 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 4
Bradford Northern
bye
Bradford Northern 5
Huddersfield 8
Huddersfield 17
Keighley 4
Huddersfield 3
Hull Kingston Rovers 20
Dewsbury 4
Leeds 5
Leeds 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 9
Featherstone Rovers 7
Hull Kingston Rovers 12

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 22,222 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but 22,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5]

2 * 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. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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