1933–34 Yorkshire Cup

1933–34 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams15
WinnersYork
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

The 1933–34 Yorkshire Cup was the twenty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. York won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 10-4.

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at fifteen.

This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.

Competition and results

[1][2]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 17 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 11 Oct 1933 Featherstone Rovers 7-12 Hull Kingston Rovers Post Office Road
2 Sat 14 Oct 1933 Batley 7-12 York Mount Pleasant
3 Sat 14 Oct 1933 Castleford 10-9 Hunslet Wheldon Road
4 Sat 14 Oct 1933 Dewsbury 4-5 Leeds Crown Flatt
5 Sat 14 Oct 1933 Halifax 23-5 Wakefield Trinity Thrum Hall
6 Sat 14 Oct 1933 Huddersfield 17-4 Keighley Fartown
7 Sat 14 Oct 1933 Hull 9-7 Bramley Boulevard [3]
8 Bradford Northern bye

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 14 Oct 1933 Bradford Northern 5-8 Huddersfield Birch Lane
2 Wed 25 Oct 1933 Halifax 18-2 Castleford Thrum Hall
3 Wed 25 Oct 1933 Leeds 5-9 Hull Kingston Rovers Headingley
4 Wed 25 Oct 1933 York 13-2 Hull Clarence Street [3]

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 6 Nov 1933 Halifax 5-7 York Thrum Hall
2 Mon 13 Nov 1933 Huddersfield 3-20 Hull Kingston Rovers Fartown

Final

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,222 and receipts were £1,480.

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Sat 25 Nov 1933 York 10-4 Hull Kingston Rovers Headingley 22,222 £1,480 1 2 [4][5]

Teams and scorers

York No Hull Kingston Rovers
teams
Tommy Dingsdale 1 George Carmichael
Lou Brown 2 Ted Tattersfield
Mel Rosser 3 Jack Spamer
Jeff Moores 4 Louis Beaumont
F. Smith 5 Roland Hill
Gurnos Rees 6 John Woodcock
William Thomas 7 Harry ‘Scrubber’ Dale
Harry Bland 8 Ben Britton
Eddie Myers 9 Harold Binks
W. John 10 W. Eddoms
Horace Coldrick 11 F. Blossom
Fred Elias 12 Charlie Brown
Norman Fender 13 George Saddington
?? Coach ??
10 score 4
3 HT 2
Scorers
Tries
Lou Brown (1), Fred Smith (1) T
T
Goals
Tommy Dingsdale (2) G George Carmichael (2)
G
Drop Goals
DG
Referee unknown

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

The road to success

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Halifax 23
Wakefield Trinity 5
Halifax 18
Castleford 2
Castleford 10
Hunslet 9
Halifax 5
York 7
Batley 7
York 12
York 13
Hull 2
Hull 9
Bramley 7
York 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 4
Bradford Northern
bye
Bradford Northern 5
Huddersfield 8
Huddersfield 17
Keighley 4
Huddersfield 3
Hull Kingston Rovers 20
Dewsbury 4
Leeds 5
Leeds 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 9
Featherstone Rovers 7
Hull Kingston Rovers 12

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 22,222 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but 22,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5]

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