1957 Yorkshire Cup

1957-58 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1956	Seasons	1958 >

1957 Yorkshire Cup

1957 was the fiftieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Huddersfield won the trophy by beating York by the score of 15-8
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,531 and receipts were £4,123

Background

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 sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.

Competition and Results^[1]^[2]

^[3]^[4]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

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

1	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Dewsbury	12-28	Bradford Northern	Crown Flatt
2	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Doncaster	9-29	Castleford	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
3	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Featherstone Rovers	46-5	Hull KR	Post Office Road
4	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Huddersfield	68-19	Batley	Fartown	6,912	^[4]
5	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Hull F.C.	14-16	Hunslet	Boulevard		^[5]
6	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Leeds	55-10	Bramley	Headingley
7	Sat 31 Aug 1957	Wakefield Trinity	19-16	Halifax	Belle Vue
8	Sat 31 Aug 1957	York	15-8	Keighley	Clarence Street

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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

1	Tue 10 Sep 1957	Castleford	6-19	Leeds	Wheldon Road
2	Mon 16 Sep 1957	Wakefield Trinity	10-13	Huddersfield	Belle Vue	7,546	^[4]
3	Tue 17 Sep 1957	Bradford Northern	5-2	Featherstone Rovers	Odsal
4	Wed 18 Sep 1957	Hunslet	17-19	York	Parkside

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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

1	Mon 30 Sep 1957	Bradford Northern	2-2	York	Odsal
2	Wed 2 Oct 1957	Huddersfield	14-2	Leeds	Fartown	11,766	^[4]

Semi-Final - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

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

R	Wed 2 Oct 1957	York		14-8		Bradford Northern	Clarence Street

Final

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

	Saturday 19 October 1957	Huddersfield		15-8		York	Headingley	22,531	£4,123	1	^[4]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Teams and Scorers^[4]^[3]^[9]

Huddersfield	№	York

	teams
Frank Dyson	1	Willie Hargreaves
Plunkett	2	B Smith
Austin Kilroy	3	Webster
Barrow	4	Geoffrey Smith
Mick Sullivan	5	Flannery
Peter Ramsden	6	Robinson
Tommy Smales	7	Riley (c)
Ted Slevin	8	Moore
Wood	9	Illingworth
David Flint	10	Victor "Vic" Yorke
Brian Briggs	11	Basil Watts
Kenneth "Ken" Bowman	12	O'Brien
Dave Valentine (c)	13	Edgar Dawson
??	Coach	??

15	score	8
7	HT	6

	Scorers
	Tries
Austin Kilroy (1)	T	Illingworth (1)
Tommy Smales (1)	T	Flannery (1)
Kenneth "Ken" Bowman (1)	T
	Goals
Frank Dyson (3)	G	Victor "Vic" Yorke (1)
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		C F (Charlie) Appleton

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


Wakefield Trinity	19

Halifax	16
		Wakefield Trinity	10

		Huddersfield	13
Huddersfield	68

Batley	19
				Huddersfield	14

				Leeds	2
Doncaster	9

Castleford	29
		Castleford	6

		Leeds	19
Leeds	55

Bramley	10
						Huddersfield	15

						York	8
Dewsbury	12

Bradford Northern	28
		Bradford Northern	5

		Featherstone Rovers	2
Featherstone Rovers	46

Hull KR	5
				Bradford Northern	2 (14)

				York	2 (8)
Hull F.C.	14

Hunslet	16
		Hunslet	17

		York	19
York	15

Keighley	8

Notes and comments

1 * 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 HC&AC committee (1958). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1958 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1958" (PDF).
↑ "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.
↑ David Jack (1958). Empire News Football Annual 1958-59 - 72nd year. Empire News and Sunday Chronicle.
↑ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1957-58" (PDF).

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