1949–50 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersBradford Northern
Runners-upHuddersfield

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
1Sat 10 Sep 1949Huddersfield13-5LeedsFartown
2Sat 10 Sep 1949Hunslet7-10DewsburyParkside
3Sat 10 Sep 1949Batley10-7HalifaxMount Pleasant
4Sat 10 Sep 1949Castleford12-8HullWheldon Road[1]
5Sat 10 Sep 1949York11-28Bradford NorthernClarence Street
6Sat 10 Sep 1949Hull Kingston Rovers6-3BramleyCraven Park (1)
7Sat 10 Sep 1949Wakefield Trinity19-12Featherstone RoversBelle Vue
8Sat 10 Sep 1949Keighley45-2Yorkshire AmateursLawkholme Lane1

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
1Mon 12 Sep 1949Leeds8-16HuddersfieldHeadingley13-29
2Tue 13 Sep 1949Dewsbury19-0HunsletCrown Flatt29-7
3Tue 13 Sep 1949Halifax2-7BatleyThrum Hall9-17
4Tue 13 Sep 1949Hull13-13CastlefordBoulevard21-252[1]
5Wed 14 Sep 1949Bradford Northern25-11YorkOdsal53-22
6Wed 14 Sep 1949Bramley13-4Hull Kingston RoversBarley Mow16-10
7Wed 14 Sep 1949Featherstone Rovers2-12Wakefield TrinityPost Office Road14-31
8Thu 15 Sep 1949Yorkshire Amateurs8-15KeighleyMount Pleasant10-601

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
1Wed 21 Sep 1949Bradford Northern13-6CastlefordOdsal
2Wed 21 Sep 1949Bramley5-4KeighleyBarley Mow
3Wed 28 Sep 1949Huddersfield20-12Wakefield TrinityFartown21737[2]
4Thu 29 Sep 1949Dewsbury12-5BatleyCrown 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
1Wed 12 Oct 1949Bramley6-8Bradford NorthernBarley Mow
2Wed 19 Oct 1949Dewsbury2-7HuddersfieldCrown Flatt

Final

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 29 October 1949Bradford Northern11-4HuddersfieldHeadingley36,000£6,3653 4[3][4]

Teams and scorers

Bradford Northern No. Huddersfield
teams
Billy Leake1E. Swallow
Eric Batten2George Wilson
Jack Kitching3Jeff Bawden
Ernest Ward4Pat Devery
Emlyn Walters5Lionel Cooper
Willie Davies6Russell Pepperell
Donald Ward7Billy Banks
Eric Day8John Maiden
Victor "Vic" Darlison9Mel Meek
Ron Greaves10John "Jack" Daly
Trevor Foster11Ike Owens
Barry Tyler12Bob Nicholson
Ken Traill13Dave Valentine (c)
Dai ReesCoach??
11score4
4HT2
Scorers
Tries
Willie Davies (1)T
Goals
Ernest Ward (4)GJeff Bawden (2)
RefereeMr. W. Hemmings (Halifax)

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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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

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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. 1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  2. 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.
  3. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  5. "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1949–50" (PDF).
  6. "Match Programme Yorkshire Cup Final 1949" (PDF).
  7. Yorks RL Assos (1949). Match programme Bradford Northern v Huddersfield 1949 Yorkshire Cup Final. Yorkshire RL Association.
  8. "Rugby League Project".
  9. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
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