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1964–65 Yorkshire Cup

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1964–65 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersWakefield Trinity
Runners-upLeeds

The 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 18-2. The match was played at Fartown, Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,527 and receipts were £2,707.

This was Wakefield Trinity's fifth Yorkshire Cup final appearance in a period of nine years (which included four as cup winners and one as runner-up).

Background

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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 sixteen.

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

Competition and results

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Round 1

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Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 4 Sep 1964 Keighley 22-3 Doncaster Lawkholme Lane
2 Fri 4 Sep 1964 Leeds 25-8 Hunslet Headingley
3 Sat 5 Sep 1964 Bradford Northern 6-17 Huddersfield Odsal 11,140 [3]
4 Sat 5 Sep 1964 Bramley 2-7 Featherstone Rovers Barley Mow
5 Sat 5 Sep 1964 Castleford 8-16 Hull Kingston Rovers Wheldon Road
6 Sat 5 Sep 1964 Dwesbury 10-11 Wakefield Trinity Crown Flatt [5]
7 Sat 5 Sep 1964 Halifax 32-14 York Thrum Hall
8 Sat 5 Sep 1964 Hull F.C. 35-9 Batley Boulevard [6]

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

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Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 14 Sep 1964 Halifax 16-3 Hull F.C. Thrum Hall [6]
2 Wed 16 Sep 1964 Featherstone Rovers 5-15 Wakefield Trinity Post Office Road [5]
3 Wed 16 Sep 1964 Huddersfield 6-5 Hull Kingston Rovers Fartown 4,447 [3]
4 Thu 17 Sep 1964 Leeds 38-14 Keighley Headingley

Round 3 – Semi-finals

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 30 Sep 1964 Huddersfield 0-7 Wakefield Trinity Fartown 9,371 [3][5]
2 Mon 5 Oct 1964 Halifax 7-20 Leeds Thrum Hall

Final

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Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 31 October 1964 Wakefield Trinity 18-2 Leeds Fartown 13,527 £2,707 1 2 [5][7][8][9]

Teams and scorers

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Wakefield Trinity Leeds
teams
Donald "Don" Metcalfe 1 Robin Dewhurst
Berwyn Jones 2 Ronnie Cowan
Tony Thomas 3 Andrew Broatch
Neil Fox 4 Dick Gemmell
Gert "Oupa" Coetzer 5 Geoff Wriglesworth
Harold Poynton 6 Mick Shoebottom
Ray Owen 7 Barry Seabourne
Edward "Ted" Campbell 8 Bill Drake
George Shepherd 9 Alan Lockwood
Don Vines 10 Leslie Chamberlain
Bob Haigh 11 Mick Clark
Derek Plumstead 12 Louis Neumann
Keith Holliday 13 John Sykes
Ken Traill Coach Roy Francis
18 score 2
7 HT 2
Scorers
Tries
Neil Fox (2) T
Berwyn Jones (2) T
Goals
Neil Fox (3) G Robin Dewhurst (1)
Referee Dennis Davies (Manchester)

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

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The road to success

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First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Bradford
Bramley
Bradford
Leeds
Wakefield Trinity
Leeds
Bradford
Keighley
Keighley
New Blackpool
Keighley
York
York
Batley
Bradford 8
Hull Kingston Rovers 5
Hull Kingston Rovers
Pontefract
Hull Kingston Rovers
Huddersfield
Dewsbury
Huddersfield
Hull Kingston Rovers
Halifax
Hull
Halifax
Halifax
Hunslet
Hunslet
bye

Notes and comments

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1 * The attendance is given as 13,754 by the official Huddersfield 1965 Yearbook[3] but given as 13,527 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[7] and 1990-91[8]

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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1965" (PDF).
  4. ^ HC&AC Committee (1965). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1965 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  5. ^ a b c d e J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  6. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  7. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  8. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  9. ^ Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.
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