1907–08 Yorkshire Cup

The 1907 Yorkshire Cup was the third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This year's final was a repeat of the first Yorkshire Cup final in which the same two clubs reached the same outcome. Hunslet won the trophy for the second time in three years by beating Halifax by the score of 17–0

1907–08 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams13
WinnersHunslet
Runners-upHalifax

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts were £397

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, Pontefract folded part way through the last season, and last years cup winner and cup holder, Bradford, became turncoats to play with the round ball. As replacement, a new club Bradford Northern joined the league, resulting in an overall decrease of two from 1906, and giving a total of thirteen entrants.

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 Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 09 Nov 1907Halifax10–5BatleyThrum Hall
2Sat 09 Nov 1907Hull21–10KeighleyBoulevard[3]
3Sat 09 Nov 1907Hunslet50–0BramleyParkside
4Sat 09 Nov 1907Leeds16–2Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley
5Sat 09 Nov 1907York14–15Bradford NorthernClarence Street1
609 Nov 1907Dewsbury0bye
709 Nov 1907Huddersfield0bye
809 Nov 1907Wakefield Trinity0bye

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 23 Nov 1907Dewsbury3–15HullCrown Flatt[3]
2Sat 23 Nov 1907Halifax31–0Bradford NorthernThrum Hall
3Sat 23 Nov 1907Huddersfield2–2Wakefield TrinityFartown
4Sat 23 Nov 1907Hunslet17–10LeedsParkside

Round 2 – Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
RWed 27 Nov 1907Wakefield Trinity12–0HuddersfieldBelle Vue

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 07 Dec 1907Hull2–16HalifaxBoulevard[3]
2Sat 07 Dec 1907Hunslet10–0Wakefield TrinityParkside

Final
Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 21 December 1907Hunslet17–0HalifaxHeadingley15,0003972[4][5]

Teams and scorers

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Hunslet № Halifax
teams
Herbert Place1Billy Little
Fred Farrar2Harry Morley
Charlie Ward3Fred Atkins
Billy Eagers4Eddie Ward
Billy Batten5Joe Riley
Albert Goldthorpe6Jimmy Hilton
Fred Smith7Tommy Grey
Harry Wilson8Joseph Brearley
Billy Brookes9Fred Hammond
Bill Dukes10Asa Robinson
Jack Randall11Fred Littlewood
Tom Walsh12John Langhorn
Walter Wray13L Sunderland
Coach
17score0
4HT0
Scorers
Tries
Billy Batten T
Fred Smith T
Albert Goldthorpe T
T
T
Goals
Charlie Ward G
Billy Eagers G
Albert Goldthorpe (2) G
DG
RefereeBilly Mc Cutcheon (Oldham)
Attendance: 15,000

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

The road to success
First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Bradford 68
Bramley 2
Bradford 21
Leeds 5
Wakefield Trinity 7
Leeds 19
Bradford 6
Keighley 4
Keighley 34
New Blackpool 2
Keighley 34
York 2
York 8
Batley 7
Bradford 8
Hull Kingston Rovers 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 44
Pontefract 0
Hull Kingston Rovers 11
Huddersfield 3
Dewsbury 10
Huddersfield 27
Hull Kingston Rovers 21
Halifax 0
Hull 3
Halifax 6
Halifax 6
Hunslet 0
Hunslet
bye

Notes and comments

1 * 1 * First Yorkshire Cup match played by newly formed club Bradford Northern who replaced Bradford who had converted to Soccer

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)

See also

References
  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. "HULL&PROUD – Stats – Fixtures & Results 1896/1897".
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  6. "Hunslet Remembered". Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  7. Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 13 – 1907–08". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a
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