1934–35 Yorkshire Cup

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1934–35 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams15
WinnersLeeds
Runners-upWakefield Trinity
← 1933–34
1935–36 →

The 1934–35 Yorkshire Cup was the 27th occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. For the first and only time, the Yorkshire Cup final required two replays to sort the teams and decide the winners, Leeds eventually winning the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of '13-0-(HT unknown) in a second replay.

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 one bye in the first round.[1][2]

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
1 Thu 6 Sep 1934 Hull 11-7 Hunslet Boulevard [3]
2 Sat 8 Sep 1934 Castleford 9-9 Bradford Northern Wheldon Road
3 Sat 8 Sep 1934 Halifax 16-5 Featherstone Rovers Thrum Hall
4 Sat 8 Sep 1934 Hull Kingston Rovers 9-9 Keighley Craven Park (1)
5 Sat 8 Sep 1934 Leeds 35-8 Bramley Headingley
6 Sat 8 Sep 1934 Wakefield Trinity 9-7 Batley Belle Vue
7 Sat 8 Sep 1934 York 0-13 Huddersfield Clarence Street
8 Dewsbury bye

Round 1 - Replays[]

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
R1 Wed 12 Sep 1934 Bradford Northern 13-16 Castleford Odsal 1
R2 Fri 13 Sep 1934 Keighley 5-22 Hull Kingston Rovers Lawkholme Lane

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 Wed 19 Sep 1934 Huddersfield 6-6 Castleford Fartown
2 Wed 19 Sep 1934 Wakefield Trinity 10-0 Hull Kingston Rovers Belle Vue
3 Thu 20 Sep 1934 Halifax 2-0 Dewsbury Thrum Hall
4 Mon 24 Sep 1934 Leeds 19-4 Hull Headingley [3]

Round 2 - Replays[]

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
R Wed 26 Sep 1934 Castleford 3-2 Huddersfield Wheldon Road

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 Mon 1 Oct 1934 Leeds 20-2 Halifax Headingley
2 Wed 3 Oct 1934 Castleford 0-10 Wakefield Trinity Wheldon Road

Final[]

The final was played at Crown Flatt, Dewsbury, now in West Yorkshire, with an attendance of 22,598, receipts were £1,529 and a final score of 5-5,

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 27 October 1934 Leeds 5-5 Wakefield Trinity Crown Flatt 22,598 £1,529 2 3 4 [4]

Final - First Replay[]

The first replay was at Fartown, with an attendance of 10,500, receipts of £745 and a final score of 2-2.

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Wednesday 31 October 1934 Leeds 2-2 Wakefield Trinity Fartown 10,500 £745 5 [4]

Final - Second Replay[]

The second replay was played at Parkside, with an attendance of 19,304, receipts of £1,327 and a final score of 13-0. Altogether a total of around 52,500 people paid over £3,500 to watch the three matches. This was Leeds' fourth of six victories in a period of ten years, during which time they won every Yorkshire Cup final in which they appeared. Also the first of two consecutive victories which they would enjoy.

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Wednesday 7 November 1934 Leeds 13-0 Wakefield Trinity Parkside 19,304 £1,327 6 7 [4]

Teams and Scorers[]

Leeds № Wakefield Trinity
teams
Jim Brough 1 W. Gordon Bonner
Stanley Smith 2 Frederick "Freddie" G. Smart
3 Ernest Pollard
Stan Brogden 4
Eric Harris 5 /
Dicky Ralph 6
7 /
8
John Lowe 9 Harry "Tupper" Field
Leonard Higson 10 "Sandy" Rowan
Harry Dyer 11 William "Bill" Horton
Ken Jubb 12 G H "Mick" Exley
Iorwerth Jones 13 Harry Wilkinson
Coach
5 score 5
HT
Scorers
Tries
1 T A. Burrows/E. Burrows (1)
Goals
1 G Ernest Pollard (1)
Referee unknown
First Replay Fartown
teams
Jim Brough 1 W. Gordon Bonner
Eric Harris 2 Frederick "Freddie" G. Smart
3 Ron Moore
Stan Brogden 4
Stanley Smith 5 /
Dicky Ralph 6 Ernest Pollard
Joe Busch 7 /
Leonard Higson 8
John Lowe 9 Harry "Tupper" Field
10 "Sandy" Rowan
Ken Jubb 11 William "Bill" Horton
Harry Dyer 12 G H "Mick" Exley
Septimus Aspinall 13 Harry Wilkinson
Coach
2 score 2
0 2
Scorers
Goals
1 G Ernest Pollard
Referee unknown
Second Replay Parkside
teams
Jim Brough 1 W. Gordon Bonner
Eric Harris 2 Ron Moore
3
Stan Brogden 4 Ernest Pollard
Stanley Smith 5 Frederick "Freddie" G. Smart
Dicky Ralph 6
Joe Busch 7 /
Leonard Higson 8
John Lowe 9 Harry "Tupper" Field
10 "Sandy" Rowan
Ken Jubb 11 William "Bill" Horton
Septimus Aspinall 12 G H "Mick" Exley
Iorwerth Jones 13 Harry Wilkinson
coach
13 score 0
? HT 0
Scorers
Tries
3 T no score
T
T
Goals
2 G
G
Drop Goals
DG
Referee unknown

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

[5]

The road to success[]

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Leeds 35
Bramley 8
Leeds 19
Hull 4
Hull 11
Hunslet 7
Leeds 20
Halifax 2
Halifax 16
Featherstone Rovers 5
Halifax 2
Dewsbury 0
Dewsbury
bye
Leeds 5-2-13
Wakefield Trinity 5-2-0
York 0
Huddersfield 13
Huddersfield 6 (2)
Castleford 6 (3)
Castleford 9 (16)
Bradford Northern 9 (13)
Castleford 0
Wakefield Trinity 10
Wakefield Trinity 9
Batley 7
Wakefield Trinity 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 0
Hull Kingston Rovers 9 (22)
Keighley 9 (5)

Notes and comments[]

1 * This was Bradford Northern's first Yorkshire Cup match at their new stadium, Odsal
2 * The attendance is given as 22,598 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject,[1] the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[6] but 22500 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[5]
3 * The receipts are given as £1,529 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[6] but £1,526 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[5]
4 * Crown Flatt was the home ground of Dewsbury from 1898 to 1991. The ground was becoming dilapidated, but a deliberately set fire which completely destroyed the recently renovated stand, together with all the clubs historical records, forced a move to a new ground. The final capacity is unknown but was much less than the record attendance of 26,584, set on 30 October 1920 for a second round Yorkshire Cup match to watch Dewsbury bear Halifax 3-2
5 * Fartown was the home ground of Huddersfield from 1878 to the end of the 1991-92 season to Huddersfield Town FC's Leeds Road stadium, and then to the McAlpine Stadium in 1994. Fartown remained as a sports/Rugby League ground but is now rather dilapidated, and is only used for staging amateur rugby league games.
Due to lack of maintenance, terrace closures and finally major storm damage closing one of the stands in 1986, the final ground capacity had been reduced to just a few thousands although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup semi-final on 19 April 1947 when a crowd of 35,136 saw Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 21-0
6 * The attendance is given as 19,304 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject,[1] the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[6] but 19,000 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[5]
7 * Parkside was the home ground of Hunslet from 1888 to 1973. The club were struggling financially when in 1971 fire destroyed the stand, greatly reducing the ground attendance capacity, the record for which stood at the 24,700 for a third round Challenge Cup match in 1924. After the fire the directors sold the ground and wound up the club.

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[]

  1. ^ a b c "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. ^ a b c d e f Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. ^ a b c d 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 c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

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