1911 Yorkshire Cup

1911 Yorkshire Cup
Structure Regional knockout championship
Number of teams 13
Winners Huddersfield
Runners-up Hull KR
< 1910 Seasons 1912 >

The 1911 Yorkshire Cup was the seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year saw a previous winner, Huddersfield, win the trophy by beating Hull KR by the score of 22-10
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £700. This was Huddersfield's third appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.)

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's new entrant Coventry left to join the Lancashire Cup, reducing the number of entries by one to a total of thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.

Competition and Results[1][2]

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs

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

1Sat 11 Oct 1911Hull2-8HunsletBoulevard[3]
2Sat 14 Oct 1911Bramley3-25DewsburyBarley Mow
3Sat 14 Oct 1911Huddersfield15-2BatleyFartown
4Sat 14 Oct 1911Hull KR23-9Wakefield TrinityHull KR
5Sat 14 Oct 1911Leeds17-5KeighleyHeadingley
6Bradford Northernbye
7Halifaxbye
8Yorkbye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

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

1Sat 14 Oct 1911Bradford Northern9-24HunsletBirch Lane1
2Sat 28 Oct 1911Huddersfield34-6DewsburyFartown
3Sat 28 Oct 1911Hull KR15-2YorkHull KR
4Sat 28 Oct 1911Leeds9-2HalifaxHeadingley

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

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

1Sat 11 Nov 1911Hunslet3-5HuddersfieldParkside
2Sat 11 Nov 1911Leeds0-11Hull KRHeadingley

Final

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

Saturday 25 November 1911Huddersfield22-10Hull KRBelle Vue200007002[4][5]

Teams and Scorers[6]

Huddersfield Hull KR
actual position unsure teams team unknown
1
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld2
Harold Wagstaff3
4
Stan Moorhouse5
Edgar Wrigley6
Thomas Grey7
John Higson8
Douglas Clark9
10
11
12
13
??Coach (??)
22score10
16HT2
Scorers
Tries
John Higson (1)T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)T
Edgar Wrigley (1)T
Harold Wagstaff (1)T
Stan Moorhouse (1)T
Thomas Grey (1)T
Goals
Thomas Grey 2G
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
            
Bradford Northern
bye
Bradford Northern 9
Hunslet 24
Hull 2
Hunslet 8
Hunslet 3
Huddersfield 6
Huddersfield 16
Batley 2
Huddersfield 34
Dewsbury 6
Bramley 3
Dewsbury 25
Huddersfield 22
Hull KR 10
Leeds 17
Keighley 5
Leeds 9
Halifax 2
Halifax
bye
Leeds 0
Hull KR 11
Hull KR 23
Wakefield Trinity 9
Hull KR 15
York 2
York
bye

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup game played at this ground, to which Bradford Northern moved for season 1908-09 2 * 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)

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.
  6. "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1911-12" (PDF).

External links

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