1914 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1913	Seasons	1919 (Spring) >

The 1914 Yorkshire Cup was the tenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league competition, was held.

This year's competition was again the turn of the previous cup holder, Huddersfield, winning the trophy by beating Hull by the score of 31-0
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,000 and receipts were £422
This was Huddersfield's fifth appearance of what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.) It was also the second of the four consecutive wins.

Background

Britain had declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914 after they had attacked Luxemburg, Belgium and France. A month later the season proper started against this backdrop. The Yorkshire Cup competition started in October and it was to be the last until the end of the war. Tensions had been building across Britain and the rest of Europe for some time, but, despite this, the 1914-1915 season was played to its conclusion, albeit in some cases a little half-heartedly as evidenced in the lower attendances at matches and with several teams absent and many players already enlisted in the Armed Forces. In the middle of 1915 competitive sporting competition was finally suspended. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at 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	Ref

1	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Batley	5-0	Dewsbury	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Bramley	0-25	Halifax	Barley Mow
3	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Hull KR	10-5	Wakefield Trinity	Craven Street (off Holderness Road)
4	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Leeds	11-13	Hunslet	Headingley
5	Sat 17 Oct 1914	York	13-24	Huddersfield	Clarence Street
6		Bradford Northern		bye
7		Hull		bye		^[3]
8		Keighley		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

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

1	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Batley	2-0	Bradford Northern	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Halifax	8-8	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall	1
3	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Hull	11-5	Hull KR	Boulevard		^[3]
4	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Hunslet	12-7	Keighley	Parkside

Round 2 - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

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

R	Thu 05 Nov 1914	Halifax		2-10		Huddersfield	Thrum Hall

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 14 Nov 1914	Huddersfield	64-3	Hunslet	Fartown
2	Sat 14 Nov 1914	Hull	7-0	Batley	Boulevard	^[3]

Final

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

	Saturday 28 November 1914	Huddersfield		31-0		Hull	Headingley	12000	422	2 3	^[3]^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[6]

Huddersfield	№	Hull

actual position unsure	teams
Major Holland	1
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld	2
Harold Wagstaff	3
Johnny Rogers	4
Stan Moorhouse	5
	6
Billy Banks	7
	8
Douglas Clark	9
Todd	?
	11
	12
	13
??	Coach	Sid Melville (trainer)

31	score	0
15	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Harold Wagstaff (2)	T
Stan Moorhouse (1)	T
Billy Banks (1)	T
Todd (1)	T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)	T
Johnny Rogers (1)	T
	T
	Goals
Major Holland (5)	G
Referee		unknown

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


Bramley	0

Halifax	25
		Halifax	2

		Huddersfield	10
York	13

Huddersfield	24
				Huddersfield	64

				Hunslet	3
Leeds	11

Hunslet	13
		Hunslet	12

		Keighley	7
Keighley

bye
						Huddersfield	31

						Hull	0
Hull

bye
		Hull	11

		Hull KR	5
Hull KR	10

Wakefield Trinity	5
				Hull	7

				Batley	0
Batley	5

Dewsbury	0
		Batley	2

		Bradford Northern	0
Bradford Northern

bye

Notes and comments

1 * Match abandoned after 50 minutes due to fog
2 * The never to be beaten record widest margin victory in a final
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).

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
1 2 3 4 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
↑ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1914-15" (PDF).

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