1964 Yorkshire Cup

1964-65 Yorkshire Cup
Structure Regional knockout championship
Number of teams 16
Winners Wakefield Trinity
Runners-up Leeds
< 1963 Seasons 1965 >

The 1964 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 18-2. The match was played at Fartown, Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,527 and receipts were £2,707.

This was Wakefield Trinity's fifth Yorkshire Cup final appearance in a period of nine years (which included four as cup winners and one as runner-up).

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 Rec Notes Ref
1Fri 4 Sep 1964Keighley22-3DoncasterLawkholme Lane
2Fri 4 Sep 1964Leeds25-8HunsletHeadingley
3Sat 5 Sep 1964Bradford Northern6-17HuddersfieldOdsal11,140[3]
4Sat 5 Sep 1964Bramley2-7Featherstone RoversBarley Mow
5Sat 5 Sep 1964Castleford8-16Hull KRWheldon Road
6Sat 5 Sep 1964Dwesbury10-11Wakefield TrinityCrown Flatt[5]
7Sat 5 Sep 1964Halifax32-14YorkThrum Hall
8Sat 5 Sep 1964Hull F.C.35-9BatleyBoulevard[6]

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 14 Sep 1964Halifax16-3Hull F.C.Thrum Hall[6]
2Wed 16 Sep 1964Featherstone Rovers5-15Wakefield TrinityPost Office Road[5]
3Wed 16 Sep 1964Huddersfield6-5Hull KRFartown4,447[3]
4Thu 17 Sep 1964Leeds38-14KeighleyHeadingley

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 30 Sep 1964Huddersfield0-7Wakefield TrinityFartown9,371[3][5]
2Mon 5 Oct 1964Halifax7-20LeedsThrum Hall

Final

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 31 October 1964Wakefield Trinity18-2LeedsFartown13,527£2,7071 2[5][7][8][9]

Teams and Scorers[5]

Wakefield Trinity № Leeds
teams
Donald "Don" Metcalfe1Robin Dewhurst
Berwyn Jones2Ronnie Cowan
Tony Thomas3Andrew Broatch
Neil Fox4Dick Gemmell
Gert "Oupa" Coetzer5Geoff Wrigglesworth
Harold Poynton6Mick Shoebottom
Ray Owen7Barry Seabourne
Edward "Ted" Campbell8Bill Drake
George Shepherd9Alan Lockwood
Don Vines10Les Chamberlain
Bob Haigh11Mick Clark
Derek Plumstead12Louis Neumann
Keith Holliday13John Sykes
Ken TraillCoach Roy Francis
18score2
7HT2
Scorers
Tries
Neil Fox (2)T
Berwyn Jones (2)T
Goals
Neil Fox (3)GRobin Dewhurst (1)
RefereeDennis Davies (Manchester)

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
Bramley
Bradford
Leeds
Wakefield Trinity
Leeds
Bradford
Keighley
Keighley
New Blackpool
Keighley
York
York
Batley
Bradford 8
Hull KR 5
Hull KR
Pontefract
Hull KR
Huddersfield
Dewsbury
Huddersfield
Hull KR
Halifax
Hull
Halifax
Halifax
Hunslet
Hunslet
bye

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 13,754 by the official Huddersfield 1965 Yearbook[3] but given as 13,527 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[7] and 1990-91[8]
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. 1 2 "Rugby League Project".
  2. ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1965" (PDF).
  4. ↑ HC&AC Committee (1965). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1965 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  6. 1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  7. 1 2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  8. 1 2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  9. ↑ Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963-64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.

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