1938–39 Yorkshire Cup

1938–39 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	15
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Hull
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The 1938–39 Yorkshire Cup, was the thirty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire County Cup competition was held.

The previous year's defeated finalists returned for a second year, but this year they were triumphant, Huddersfield winning the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 18–10.

The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 28,714 and receipts were £1,534.

For the losers, Hull FC, it was to be their fifth defeat in six appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final.

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Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants but Newcastle folded and so there is one less entrant, reducing the total number to fifteen.

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

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 10 Sep 1938	Bradford Northern	7-20	Hunslet	Odsal
2	Sat 10 Sep 1938	Featherstone Rovers	4-43	Leeds	Post Office Road
3	Sat 10 Sep 1938	Halifax	9-9	Batley	Thrum Hall
4	Sat 10 Sep 1938	Huddersfield	32-8	Dewsbury	Fartown
5	Sat 10 Sep 1938	Hull	17-10	Bramley	Boulevard	^[3]
6	Sat 10 Sep 1938	Hull Kingston Rovers	12-0	Castleford	Craven Park (1)
7	Sat 10 Sep 1938	York	14-28	Keighley	Clarence Street
8		Wakefield Trinity		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	Wed 14 Sep 1938	Batley		0-16		Halifax	Mount Pleasant

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Mon 19 Sep 1938	Halifax	8-14	Wakefield Trinity	Thrum Hall
2	Mon 19 Sep 1938	Hunslet	23-7	Hull Kingston Rovers	Parkside
3	Tue 20 Sep 1938	Hull	8-0	Keighley	Boulevard	^[3]
4	Wed 21 Sep 1938	Huddersfield	8-6	Leeds	Fartown

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Wed 5 Oct 1938	Huddersfield	6-2	Wakefield Trinity	Fartown
2	Thu 6 Oct 1938	Hull	18-2	Hunslet	Boulevard	^[3]

Final

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

	Saturday 22 October 1938	Huddersfield		18-10		Hull	Odsal	28714	1534	1	^[3]^[4]^[5]

Teams and scorers

Huddersfield	No.	Hull

taken from match programme	teams	taken from match programme
W. J. Taylor	1	Freddie Miller
Bill Johnson	2	Frank Hurley
Dennis Madden	3	J. R. "Bob" Corner
Alex Fiddes	4	Sydney Wilson
E. T. Markham	5	E. Overton
Stanley "Stan" V. Pepperell	6	Ernie Herbert
T. Grahame (or T. H. Royal)	7	A. Tom Johnson
H. Sherwood	8	Lawrence "Laurie" Thacker
H. Whitehead	9	G. H. "George" Barlow
David Morgan Evans	10	Lawrence Barlow
Emrys Hughes	11	Charles "Charlie" Booth
J. D. Shaw	12	J. R. P. "Jack" Dawson
K. Gronow (or Ron Bailey)	13	Harold Ellerington
??	Coach	??

18	score	10
10	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
E. T. Markham (3)	T
Dennis Madden (1)	T
	Goals
Alex Fiddes (2)	G
Dennis Madden (1)	G
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	32

Dewsbury	8
		Huddersfield	8

		Leeds	6
Featherstone Rovers	4

Leeds	43
				Huddersfield	6

				Wakefield Trinity	2
Halifax	9 (16)

Batley	9 (0)
		Halifax	8

		Wakefield Trinity	14
Wakefield Trinity

bye
						Huddersfield	18

						Hull	10
Hull	17

Bramley	10
		Hull	8

		Keighley	0
York	14

Keighley	28
				Hull	18

				Hunslet	2
Bradford Northern	7

Hunslet	20
		Hunslet	23

		Hull Kingston Rovers	7
Hull Kingston Rovers	12

Castleford	0

Notes and comments

1 * 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.

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

^ "Rugby League Project".
^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
^ "Match Programme Yorkshire Cup Final 1938" (PDF).
^ Yorks RL Assos (1938). Match programme Huddersfield v Hull 1938 Yorkshire Cup Final. Yorkshire RL Association.
^ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1938–39" (PDF).