1961–62 Yorkshire Cup

1961–62 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersWakefield Trinity
Runners-upLeeds

The 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 19-9

The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,329 and receipts were £2,864

This was Wakefield Trinity's second consecutive triumph and the club's fourth appearance out of five 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 entrants 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
1 Fri 1 Sep 1961 Castleford 37-8 Halifax Wheldon Road
2 Fri 1 Sep 1961 Dewsbury 0-15 Batley Crown Flatt
3 Sat 2 Sep 1961 Featherstone Rovers 31-6 Doncaster Post Office Road
4 Sat 2 Sep 1961 Hull F.C. 9-8 Huddersfield Boulevard 11,000 [3][5]
5 Sat 2 Sep 1961 Keighley 14-23 Hunslet Lawkholme Lane
6 Sat 2 Sep 1961 Leeds 46-13 Hull Kingston Rovers Headingley
7 Sat 2 Sep 1961 Wakefield Trinity 73-5 Bradford Northern Belle Vue 1 [6]
8 Sat 2 Sep 1961 York 36-15 Bramley Clarence Street

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 13 Sep 1961 Leeds 20-12 Castleford Headingley
2 Tue 19 Sep 1961 Featherstone Rovers 21-11 Batley Post Office Road
3 Tue 19 Sep 1961 Hull F.C. 7-13 Wakefield Trinity Boulevard [5][6]
4 Wed 20 Sep 1961 York 31-9 Hunslet Clarence Street

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 4 Oct 1961 Leeds 11-3 Featherstone Rovers Headingley
2 Wed 4 Oct 1961 Wakefield Trinity 24-4 York Belle Vue [6]

Final

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 11 November 1961 Wakefield Trinity 19-9 Leeds Odsal 16,329 £2,864 2 3 4 [6][7][8]

Teams and scorers

[3][4][6]

Wakefield Trinity № Leeds
teams
Gerry Round 1 Ken Thornett
Fred Smith 2 Garry Hemingway
Alan Skene 3 Dennis Goodwin
Neil Fox 4 Fred Pickup
Colin Greenwood 5 Eddie Ratcliffe
Harold Poynton 6 Lewis Jones
Keith Holliday 7 Colin Evans
Jack Wilkinson 8 Don Robinson
Milan Kosanović 9 Barry Simms
Albert Firth 10 Trevor Whitehead
Brian Briggs 11 Jack Fairbank
Don Vines 12 John Sykes
Derek "Rocky" Turner (c) 13 Colin Tomlinson
Ken Traill Coach Dai Prosser
Football Manager Joe Warham
19 score 9
5 HT 5
Scorers
Tries
Derek "Rocky" Turner (1) T Garry Hemingway (1)
Alan Skene (1) T
Fred Smith (1) T
Goals
Neil Fox (5) G Lewis Jones (3)
G
Drop Goals
DG
Referee Tom Watkinson (Manchester)

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

The road to success

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Hull F.C. 9
Huddersfield 8
Hull F.C. 7
Wakefield Trinity 13
Wakefield Trinity 73
Bradford Northern 5
Wakefield Trinity 24
York 4
York 36
Bramley 15
York 31
Hunslet 9
Keighley 14
Hunslet 23
Wakefield Trinity 19
Leeds 9
Leeds 46
Hull Kingston Rovers 13
Leeds 20
Castleford 12
Castleford 37
Halifax 8
Leeds 11
Featherstone Rovers 3
Featherstone Rovers 31
Doncaster 6
Featherstone Rovers 21
Batley 11
Dewsbury 0
Batley 15

Notes and comments

1 * This was both the record score and winning margin at the time. It also equalled Wakefield Trinity's record score (v Broughton Moor Amat in 1950) - Gerry Round kicked 11 goals to equal the club record

2 * The attendance is given as 16,429 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[6] and 16,329 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[7] and 1990-91[8]

3 * The receipts are quoted as £2,914 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[6] but £2,864 in the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[7] and 1990-91[8]

4 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington

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 c "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1962" (PDF).
  4. ^ a b HC&AC Committee (1962). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1962 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  5. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. ^ a b c d e f g 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.
  7. ^ a b c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  8. ^ a b c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.