1911–12 Yorkshire Cup
| 1911 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 13 |
| Winners | Huddersfield |
| Runners-up | Hull KR |
The 1911 Yorkshire Cup was the seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year saw a previous winner, Huddersfield, win the trophy by beating Hull KR by the score of 22-10
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £700. This was Huddersfield's third appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.)
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's new entrant Coventry left to join the Lancashire Cup, reducing the number of entries by one to a total of thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 11 Oct 1911 | Hull | 2-8 | Hunslet | Boulevard | [3] | |||||
| 2 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Bramley | 3-25 | Dewsbury | Barley Mow | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Huddersfield | 15-2 | Batley | Fartown | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Hull KR | 23-9 | Wakefield Trinity | Hull KR | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Leeds | 17-5 | Keighley | Headingley | ||||||
| 6 | Bradford Northern | bye | |||||||||
| 7 | Halifax | bye | |||||||||
| 8 | York | bye |
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Bradford Northern | 9-24 | Hunslet | Birch Lane | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Sat 28 Oct 1911 | Huddersfield | 34-6 | Dewsbury | Fartown | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 28 Oct 1911 | Hull KR | 15-2 | York | Hull KR | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 28 Oct 1911 | Leeds | 9-2 | Halifax | Headingley |
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 11 Nov 1911 | Hunslet | 3-5 | Huddersfield | Parkside | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 11 Nov 1911 | Leeds | 0-11 | Hull KR | Headingley |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 25 November 1911 | Huddersfield | 22-10 | Hull KR | Belle Vue | 20000 | 700 | 2 | [4][5] |
Teams and Scorers[6]
| Huddersfield | № | Hull KR |
|---|---|---|
| actual position unsure | teams | team unknown |
| 1 | ||
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld | 2 | |
| Harold Wagstaff | 3 | |
| 4 | ||
| Stan Moorhouse | 5 | |
| Edgar Wrigley | 6 | |
| Thomas Grey | 7 | |
| John Higson | 8 | |
| Douglas Clark | 9 | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| ?? | Coach | (??) |
| 22 | score | 10 |
| 16 | HT | 2 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| John Higson (1) | T | |
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1) | T | |
| Edgar Wrigley (1) | T | |
| Harold Wagstaff (1) | T | |
| Stan Moorhouse (1) | T | |
| Thomas Grey (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Thomas Grey 2 | G | |
| 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 | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup game played at this ground, to which Bradford Northern moved for season 1908-09 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
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
- ^ "Rugby League Project".
- ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1911-12" (PDF).