1909–10 Yorkshire Cup

1909–10 Yorkshire Cup
1909–10 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	13
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Batley
	← 1908–09 1910–11 →

The 1909–10 Yorkshire Cup was the fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year's final was between two clubs who had not previously played in the final and Huddersfield won the trophy by beating Batley by the score of 21–0. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,000 and receipts were £778. This was Huddersfield's first appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.)

Background

This season there were again no junior/amateur clubs taking part and so the total of entries remained the same at thirteen. This, in turn, resulted in three byes in the first round.

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 16 Oct 1909	Bramley	7–7	Halifax	Barley Mow
2	Sat 16 Oct 1909	Huddersfield	33–5	Hull Kingston Rovers	Fartown
3	Sat 16 Oct 1909	Hunslet	18–0	Bradford Northern	Parkside
4	Sat 16 Oct 1909	Leeds	2–3	Wakefield Trinity	Headingley
5	Sat 16 Oct 1909	York	7–6	Hull	Clarence Street	^[3]
6		Batley		bye	.
7		Dewsbury		bye	.
8		Keighley		bye	.

Round 1 – Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
R	Mon 18 Oct 1909	Halifax		29–2		Bramley	Thrum Hall

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Sat 30 Oct 1909	Batley	8–4	Dewsbury	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 30 Oct 1909	Halifax	14–10	York	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 30 Oct 1909	Huddersfield	12–4	Hunslet	Fartown
4	Sat 30 Oct 1909	Keighley	8–8	Wakefield Trinity	Lawkholme Lane

Round 2 – Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
R	Wed 03 Nov 1909	Wakefield Trinity		7–3		Keighley	Belle Vue

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Ref

1	Sat 13 Nov 1909	Batley	7–7	Wakefield Trinity	Mount Pleasant		^[4]
2	Sat 13 Nov 1909	Huddersfield	20-2	Halifax	Fartown	28600

Semifinal - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
R	Wed 17 Nov 1909	Wakefield Trinity		3–11		Batley	Belle Vue				^[4]

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team		Score		Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 27 November 1909	Huddersfield		21–0		Batley	Headingley	22000	778	1	^[5]^[6]

Teams and scorers

Huddersfield	No.	Batley

	teams
Percy Holroyd (2)	1	Albert Senior
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld	2	Edward/Edwin "Eddie" Ward
Kitchen (William Kitchin?)	3	Wattie Davies
Sykes	4	William T. Davies
	5	Harry Thomas
Edgar Wrigley	6	Joseph "Joe" Oakland
	7	John "Jack" Jones
	8	James "Jim" Gath
Douglas Clark	9	Fred "Ted" Fozzard
W. Ainsley	10	James W. Debney
	11	William "Willie" Settle
	12	Fred Hill
	13	Arthur Kitson
	Coach

21	score	0
5	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Kitchen (1)	T
Sykes (1)	T
Edgar Wrigley (1)	T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)	T
W. Ainsley (1)	T
	Goals
Percy Holroyd (2)	G
Edgar Wrigley (1)	G
	Drop Goals
Referee		unknown

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

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The road to success

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Huddersfield	33

Hull Kingston Rovers	5
		Huddersfield	12

		Hunslet	4
Hunslet	18

Bradford Northern	0
				Huddersfield	20

				Halifax	2
Bramley	7 (2)

Halifax	7 (29)
		Halifax	14

		York	10
York	7

Hull	6
						Huddersfield	21

						Batley	0
Batley

bye
		Batley	8

		Dewsbury	4
Dewsbury

bye
				Batley	7 (11)

				Wakefield Trinity	7 (3)
Keighley

bye
		Keighley	8 (3)

		Wakefield Trinity	8 (7)
Leeds	2

Wakefield Trinity	3

Notes and comments

1 * 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)

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