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1933–34 Yorkshire Cup
1933–34 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	15
Winners	York
Runners-up	Hull Kingston Rovers
	← 1932–33 1934–35 →

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	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	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

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)

References

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