1950–51 Yorkshire Cup

1950–51 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	16
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Castleford
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1950–51 was the forty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Huddersfield won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 16-3

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 28,610 and receipts were £5,152

Background

This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.

This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.

The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.

Competition and results

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Round 1 – first leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

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

1	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Featherstone Rovers	7-20	Leeds	Post Office Road
2	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Hull Kingston Rovers	9-0	Batley	Craven Park (1)
3	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Keighley	9-14	Castleford	Lawkholme Lane
4	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Yorkshire Amateurs	2-35	Hunslet	Headingley	1
5	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Wakefield Trinity	43-4	York	Belle Vue
6	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Dewsbury	14-2	Hull	Crown Flatt		^[3]
7	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Halifax	5-5	Bradford Northern	Thrum Hall
8	Sat 2 Sep 1950	Bramley	22-21	Huddersfield	Barley Mow

Round 1 – second leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	agg	Notes	Ref

1	Mon 4 Sep 1950	Leeds	20-9	Featherstone Rovers	Headingley	40-16
2	Tue 5 Sep 1950	Batley	21-4	Hull Kingston Rovers	Mount Pleasant	21-13
3	Wed 6 Sep 1950	Castleford	2-4	Keighley	Wheldon Road	16-13
4	Wed 6 Sep 1950	Hunslet	26-2	Yorkshire Amateurs	Parkside	61-4	1
5	Wed 6 Sep 1950	York	2-23	Wakefield Trinity	Clarence Street	6-66
6	Tue 12 Sep 1950	Hull	2-2	Dewsbury	Boulevard	4-16		^[3]
7	Wed 13 Sep 1950	Bradford Northern	12-4	Halifax	Odsal	15-9
8	Wed 13 Sep 1950	Huddersfield	39-5	Bramley	Fartown	60-27

Round 2 - quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Mon 18 Sep 1950	Leeds	2-29	Huddersfield	Headingley
2	Tue 19 Sep 1950	Batley	10-8	Wakefield Trinity	Mount Pleasant
3	Wed 20 Sep 1950	Bradford Northern	0-4	Castleford	Odsal
4	Wed 20 Sep 1950	Hunslet	3-2	Dewsbury	Parkside

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Fri 6 Oct 1950	Hunslet	7-20	Huddersfield	Parkside
2	Tue 10 Oct 1950	Batley	2-2	Castleford	Mount Pleasant

Round 3 – semifinals - Replay

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

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

R	Fri 13 Oct 1950	Castleford		13-9		Batley	Wheldon Road

Final

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

	Saturday 4 November 1950	Huddersfield		16-3		Castleford	Headingley		28,610	£5,152	2 3	^[4]^[5]

Teams and scorers

Huddersfield	№	Castleford

	teams
Johnny Hunter	1	Ron Lewis
Dick Cracknell	2	Reg Lloyd
Jim Bowden	3	George Broughton Jr.
I W Clark	4	Percy Aldred
Lionel Cooper	5	Len Brown
Russ Pepperell	6	Arthur Fisher
Billy Banks	7	George Langfield
Frank Wagstaff	8	Joe Anderson
Jim Mundy	9	Jimmy Jones
Arthur Wilmot	10	Leo Fleming
Bob Nicholson	11	George Howard
Ike Owens	12	Leslie Haughey
Dave Valentine	13	Frank Mugglestone
??	Coach	??

16	score	3
7	HT	3

	Scorers
	Tries
Russ Pepperell (2)	T	Reg Lloyd (1)
	Goals
James Bowden (5)	G
Referee		Ron Gelder (Wakefield)
Man of the Match		Billy Banks

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

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The road to success

All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.

For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.

For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Yorkshire Amateurs	4

Hunslet	61
		Hunslet	3

		Dewsbury	2
Dewsbury	16

Hull	4
				Hunslet	7

				Huddersfield	20
Featherstone Rovers	16

Leeds	40
		Leeds	2

		Huddersfield	29
Bramley	27

Huddersfield	61
						Huddersfield	16

						Castleford	3
Hull Kingston Rovers	13

Batley	21
		Batley	10

		Wakefield Trinity	8
Wakefield Trinity	66

York	6
				Batley	2 (9)

				Castleford	2 (13)
Halifax	9

Bradford Northern	15
		Bradford Northern	0

		Castleford	4
Keighley	13

Castleford	16

Notes and comments

1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this year the home leg was played at Headingley, the ground of Leeds

2 * The attendance is given as 28,610 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but 28,906 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92^[4]^[5]

3 * 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.
^ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1950–51" (PDF).