1913 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1912	Seasons	1914 >

The 1913 Yorkshire Cup was the ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. 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.

This year saw a previous two-time winner, Huddersfield taking the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 19-3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,000 and receipts were £430. This was Huddersfield's fourth appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total), and who knows, but for the intervention of the First World War and suspension of the competition, it may have been more. It was also the first of the four consecutive wins.

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^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs

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

1	Sat 18 Oct 1913	Bradford Northern	4-2	Keighley	Birch Lane
2	Sat 18 Oct 1913	Halifax	9-0	Batley	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 18 Oct 1913	Huddersfield	67-0	Bramley	Fartown	1
4	Sat 18 Oct 1913	Hunslet	8-19	Dewsbury	Parkside
5	Sat 18 Oct 1913	Wakefield Trinity	8-0	Hull	Belle Vue		^[3]
6		Hull KR		bye
7		Leeds		bye
8		York		bye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 1 Nov 1913	Dewsbury	18-5	Hull KR	Crown Flatt
2	Sat 1 Nov 1913	Halifax	0-39	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 1 Nov 1913	Leeds	7-15	Wakefield Trinity	Headingley
4	Sat 1 Nov 1913	York	4-9	Bradford Northern	Clarence Street

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sat 15 Nov 1913	Bradford Northern	13-2	Wakefield Trinity	Birch Lane
2	Sat 15 Nov 1913	Huddersfield	37-0	Dewsbury	Fartown

Final

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

	Saturday 29 November 1913	Huddersfield		19-3		Bradford Northern	Thrum Hall	12000	430	2	^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[6]

Huddersfield	№	Bradford Northern

actual position unsure	teams
Major Holland	1
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
Johnny Rogers	7
	8
Douglas Clark	9
	10
Todd	?
Habron	?
	13
??	Coach	??

19	score	3
8	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Todd (2)	T
Habron (2)	T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)	T
	Goals
Major Holland (2)	G
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	9

Batley	0
		Halifax	0

		Huddersfield	39
Huddersfield	67

Bramley	0
				Huddersfield	37

				Dewsbury	0
Hunslet	8

Dewsbury	19
		Dewsbury	18

		Hull KR	5
Hull KR

bye
						Huddersfield	19

						Bradford Northern	3
York

bye
		York	4

		Bradford Northern	9
Bradford Northern	4

Keighley	2
				Bradford Northern	13

				Wakefield Trinity	2
Leeds

bye
		Leeds	7

		Wakefield Trinity	15
Wakefield Trinity	8

Hull	0

Notes

1 * Highest winning margin at the time (beating Bradford's 68-2 victory over Bramley in 1906
2 * Thrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.

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 1913-14" (PDF).

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