1949–50 Yorkshire Cup | |
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Structure | Regional knockout championship |
Teams | 16 |
Winners | Bradford Northern |
Runners-up | Huddersfield |
1949–50 was the forty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Huddersfield by the score of 11-4.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 36,000, a record never to be beaten, and receipts were £6,365.
This was the second of two successive wins for Bradford Northern
Background
This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.
Competition and results
Round 1 – first leg
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Huddersfield | 13-5 | Leeds | Fartown | |||||||
2 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Hunslet | 7-10 | Dewsbury | Parkside | |||||||
3 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Batley | 10-7 | Halifax | Mount Pleasant | |||||||
4 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Castleford | 12-8 | Hull | Wheldon Road | [1] | ||||||
5 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | York | 11-28 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street | |||||||
6 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 6-3 | Bramley | Craven Park (1) | |||||||
7 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Wakefield Trinity | 19-12 | Featherstone Rovers | Belle Vue | |||||||
8 | Sat 10 Sep 1949 | Keighley | 45-2 | Yorkshire Amateurs | Lawkholme Lane | 1 |
Round 1 – second leg
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Mon 12 Sep 1949 | Leeds | 8-16 | Huddersfield | Headingley | 13-29 | ||||||
2 | Tue 13 Sep 1949 | Dewsbury | 19-0 | Hunslet | Crown Flatt | 29-7 | ||||||
3 | Tue 13 Sep 1949 | Halifax | 2-7 | Batley | Thrum Hall | 9-17 | ||||||
4 | Tue 13 Sep 1949 | Hull | 13-13 | Castleford | Boulevard | 21-25 | 2 | [1] | ||||
5 | Wed 14 Sep 1949 | Bradford Northern | 25-11 | York | Odsal | 53-22 | ||||||
6 | Wed 14 Sep 1949 | Bramley | 13-4 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Barley Mow | 16-10 | ||||||
7 | Wed 14 Sep 1949 | Featherstone Rovers | 2-12 | Wakefield Trinity | Post Office Road | 14-31 | ||||||
8 | Thu 15 Sep 1949 | Yorkshire Amateurs | 8-15 | Keighley | Mount Pleasant | 10-60 | 1 |
Round 2 - quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Wed 21 Sep 1949 | Bradford Northern | 13-6 | Castleford | Odsal | |||||||
2 | Wed 21 Sep 1949 | Bramley | 5-4 | Keighley | Barley Mow | |||||||
3 | Wed 28 Sep 1949 | Huddersfield | 20-12 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | 21737 | [2] | |||||
4 | Thu 29 Sep 1949 | Dewsbury | 12-5 | Batley | Crown Flatt |
Round 3 – semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Wed 12 Oct 1949 | Bramley | 6-8 | Bradford Northern | Barley Mow | |||||||
2 | Wed 19 Oct 1949 | Dewsbury | 2-7 | Huddersfield | Crown Flatt |
Final
Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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Saturday 29 October 1949 | Bradford Northern | 11-4 | Huddersfield | Headingley | 36,000 | £6,365 | 3 4 | [3][4] |
Teams and scorers
Bradford Northern | No. | Huddersfield |
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teams | ||
Billy Leake | 1 | E. Swallow |
Eric Batten | 2 | George Wilson |
Jack Kitching | 3 | Jeff Bawden |
Ernest Ward | 4 | Pat Devery |
Emlyn Walters | 5 | Lionel Cooper |
Willie Davies | 6 | Russell Pepperell |
Donald Ward | 7 | Billy Banks |
Eric Day | 8 | John Maiden |
Victor "Vic" Darlison | 9 | Mel Meek |
Ron Greaves | 10 | John "Jack" Daly |
Trevor Foster | 11 | Ike Owens |
Barry Tyler | 12 | Bob Nicholson |
Ken Traill | 13 | Dave Valentine (c) |
Dai Rees | Coach | ?? |
11 | score | 4 |
4 | HT | 2 |
Scorers | ||
Tries | ||
Willie Davies (1) | T | |
Goals | ||
Ernest Ward (4) | G | Jeff Bawden (2) |
Referee | Mr. W. Hemmings (Halifax) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.
First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
Hull Kingston Rovers | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bramley | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bramley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Keighley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Keighley | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||
Yorkshire Amateurs | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bramley | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
York | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hunslet | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dewsbury | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dewsbury | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Batley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Batley | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dewsbury | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 14 |
Notes and comments
1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this match was played at Parkside, the ground of Hunslet
2 * The date is given by RUGBYLEAGUEproject xx as Tuesday 13 September, but by the official Hull F.C. archives as Wednesday 14 September
3 * The attendance was a new record, never to be beaten, and beating the previous of 34,300 set in 1946
4 * 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)
See also
References
- 1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 1949–50" (PDF).
- ↑ "Match Programme Yorkshire Cup Final 1949" (PDF).
- ↑ Yorks RL Assos (1949). Match programme Bradford Northern v Huddersfield 1949 Yorkshire Cup Final. Yorkshire RL Association.
- ↑ "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.