1921 Yorkshire Cup

1921 Yorkshire Cup
Structure Regional knockout championship
Number of teams 14
Winners Leeds
Runners-up Dewsbury
< 1920 Seasons 1922 >

The 1921 Yorkshire Cup was the fourteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year saw another new name on the trophy when Leeds won the cup by beating Dewsbury by the score of 11-3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £1,650. This was the first of Leeds' Yorkshire Cup successes, and they would go on to (eventually) triumph on a record seventeen occasions.

Background

The Rugby Football League's 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).

Competition and Results[1][2]

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers" but Featherstone Rovers joined for the first time as a league team, after being newly admitted to the league during the close-season. This resulted in one additional entrant, bringing the total up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in only two byes in the first round.

Round 1

Involved 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 Clubs

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

1Sat 15 Oct 1921Batley5-4HunsletMount Pleasant
2Sat 15 Oct 1921Bradford Northern2-14BramleyBirch Lane
3Sat 15 Oct 1921Dewsbury3-0HullCrown Flatt[3]
4Sat 15 Oct 1921Hull KR16-7KeighleyCraven Street (off Holderness Road)
5Sat 15 Oct 1921Leeds11-2HuddersfieldHeadingley
6Sat 15 Oct 1921York3-4Wakefield TrinityClarence Street
7Halifaxbye
8Featherstone Roversbye

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 29 Oct 1921Batley5-5BramleyMount Pleasant
2Sat 29 Oct 1921Dewsbury15-2Wakefield TrinityCrown Flatt
3Sat 29 Oct 1921Featherstone Rovers0-12Hull KRPost Office Road1
4Sat 29 Oct 1921Leeds20-2HalifaxHeadingley

Round 2 - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

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

RWed 2 Nov 1921Bramley6-0BatleyBarley Mow

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 12 Nov 1921Bramley4-11LeedsBarley Mow
2Sat 12 Nov 1921Dewsbury8-3Hull KRCrown Flatt

Final

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

Saturday 26 November 1921Leeds11-3DewsburyThrum Hall2000016502 3[4][5]

Teams and Scorers[6]

Leeds Dewsbury
teams team unknown
Roberts1
Syd Walmsley2
Wm A Davies3
Janes "Jim" Bacon4
W H Davies5
Joe Brittain6
Archie Brown7
Bernard Gould8
Hardaker9
Godwad10
Boagey11
Pearson12
Billy Ward?13
??Coach??
11score3
8HT3
Scorers
Tries
James "Jim" Bacon (2)T1
Syd Walmsley (1)T
Goals
1G
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
            
Batley 5
Hunslet 4
Batley 5 (0)
Bramley 5 (6)
Bradford Northern 2
Bramley 14
Bramley 4
Leeds 11
Leeds 11
Huddersfield 2
Leeds 20
Halifax 2
Halifax
bye
Leeds 11
Dewsbury 3
Dewsbury 3
Hull 0
Dewsbury 15
Wakefield Trinity 2
York 3
Wakefield Trinity 4
Dewsbury 8
Hull KR 3
Featherstone Rovers
bye
Featherstone Rovers 0
Hull KR 12
Hull KR 19
Keighley 7

Notes

1 * Featherstone Rovers played their first Yorkshire Cup match since being elected to the league, and at Post Office Road
2 * The attendance is given as 22,001 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but only 20,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5]
3 * Thrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. 1 2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. 1 2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  6. "Leeds Rhinos history".

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