1908 Yorkshire Cup

1908-09 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1907	Seasons	1909 >

The 1908 Yorkshire Cup was the fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year's final was between cup holder Hunslet and the previous season's runner-up Halifax with this year the reverse result, Halifax winning the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 9-6. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,000 and receipts were £356. This was the third meeting between the two teams, Halifax and Hunslet, who had now met in three out of the first four previous finals, Hunslet having won on both earlier occasions in 1905 and 1907.

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at thirteen. This, in turn, resulted in three byes in the first round.

Competition and Results^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Halifax	13-0	Leeds	Thrum Hall
2	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Hull KR	13-19	Batley	Craven Street (off Holderness Road)
3	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Keighley	6-14	Hunslet	Lawkholme Lane
4	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Wakefield Trinity	0-17	Huddersfield	Belle Vue
5	Sat 10 Oct 1908	York	8-2	Bradford Northern	Clarence Street
6	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Bramley	0	bye
7	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Dewsbury	0	bye
8	Sat 10 Oct 1908	Hull	0	bye		^[3]

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 24 Oct 1908	Dewsbury	32-2	Bramley	Crown Flatt
2	Sat 24 Oct 1908	Halifax	31-2	Hull	Thrum Hall	^[3]
3	Sat 24 Oct 1908	Huddersfield	8-13	Batley	Fartown
4	Sat 24 Oct 1908	York	0-14	Hunslet	Clarence Street

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 14 Nov 1908	Halifax	9-0	Batley	Thrum Hall
2	Sat 14 Nov 1908	Hunslet	10-2	Dewsbury	Parkside

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 28 November 1908	Halifax		9-5		Hunslet	Belle Vue	13000	356	1	^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers

Halifax	№	Hunslet

team unknown	teams	team unknown
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	9
	10
	11
	12
	13
	Coach

9	score	6
7	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
	T
	T
	T
	Goals
	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


Halifax	13

Leeds	0
		Halifax	31

		Hull	2
Hull

bye
				Halifax	9

				Batley	0
Wakefield Trinity	0

Huddersfield	17
		Huddersfield	8

		Batley	13
Hull KR	13

Batley	19
						Halifax	9

						Hunslet	5
York)	8

Bradford Northern	2
		York)	0

		Hunslet	14
Keighley	6

Hunslet	14
				Hunslet	10

				Dewsbury	2
Dewsbury

bye
		Dewsbury	32

		Bramley	2
Bramley

bye

Notes and comments

1 * 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)

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results 1896/1897".
↑ 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.

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