1928–29 Yorkshire Cup

The 1928–29 Yorkshire Cup was the 21st occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers in the final by the score of 5-0. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 14,000 and receipts were £838. This was Leeds' first of six victories in a period of ten years, during which time they won every Yorkshire Cup final in which they appeared.

1928–29 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams15
WinnersLeeds
Runners-upFeatherstone Rovers

Background

The Rugby Football League's 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).

Competition and results

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 three byes in the first round.[1]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 13 Oct 1928Castleford19-4KeighleyWheldon Road
2Sat 13 Oct 1928Dewsbury14-3BatleyCrown Flatt
3Sat 13 Oct 1928Featherstone Rovers4-2BramleyPost Office Road
4Sat 13 Oct 1928Halifax5-8HuddersfieldThrum Hall
5Sat 13 Oct 1928Leeds20-5Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley
6Sat 13 Oct 1928Wakefield Trinity7-7HunsletBelle Vue
7Sat 13 Oct 1928York14-9HullClarence Street[2]
8Bradford Northernbye

Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
RWed 17 Oct 1928Hunslet11-20Wakefield TrinityParkside

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 24 Oct 1928Dewsbury26-8Bradford NorthernCrown Flatt
2Wed 24 Oct 1928Huddersfield4-7Featherstone RoversFartown
3Wed 24 Oct 1928Wakefield Trinity7-24LeedsBelle Vue
4Wed 24 Oct 1928York0-8CastlefordClarence Street

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 7 Nov 1928Dewsbury5-16LeedsCrown Flatt
2Wed 7 Nov 1928Featherstone Rovers10-6CastlefordPost Office Road

Final

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 24 November 1928Leeds5-0Featherstone RoversBelle Vue14,000£8381 2[3][4]

Teams and scorers

Leeds Featherstone Rovers
team unknownteams
1Sid Denton
2G. Albert Taylor
3Jack Hirst
Frank O'Rourke (position uncertain)4Tom Askin
5George Whitaker
6Jim Denton
7Charles Annable
Arthur Thomas (position uncertain)8Ernest Barraclough
9J. W. Smith
10Herbert Rogerson
11Sam Shirley
12Arthur Haigh
13Joe Morgan
??CoachxBilly Williams
5score0
5HT0
Scorers
Tries
Frank O'RourkeT
Goals
G
Drop Goals
DG
Refereeunknown ()

Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

The road to success

The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Dewsbury 14
Batley 3
Dewsbury 26
Bradford Northern 8
Bradford Northern
bye
Dewsbury 5
Leeds 16
Wakefield Trinity 7 (20)
Hunslet 7 (11)
Wakefield Trinity 7
Leeds 24
Leeds 20
Hull Kingston Rovers 5
Leeds 5
Featherstone Rovers 0
Halifax 5
Huddersfield 8
Huddersfield 4
Featherstone Rovers 7
Featherstone Rovers 4
Bramley 2
Featherstone Rovers 10
Castleford 6
York 14
Hull 9
York 0
Castleford 8
Castleford 19
Keighley 4

Notes

1 * The attendance is given as 13,000 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but 14,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[3] and 1990-91[4]

2 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield

See also

References

  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  3. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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