| 1907–08 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Hunslet |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Halifax |
| Prevseason Link: | 1906 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1906 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1908–09 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1908–09 |
| No Of Teams: | 13 |
The 1907 Yorkshire Cup was the third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This year's final was a repeat of the first Yorkshire Cup final in which the same two clubs reached the same outcome. Hunslet won the trophy for the second time in three years by beating Halifax by the score of 17–0
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts were £397
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, Pontefract folded part way through the last season, and last years cup winner and cup holder, Bradford, became turncoats to play with the round ball. As replacement, a new club Bradford Northern joined the league, resulting in an overall decrease of two from 1906, and giving a total of thirteen entrants.
This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Halifax | 10–5 | Batley | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Hull | 21–10 | Keighley | Boulevard | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Hunslet | 50–0 | Bramley | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Leeds | 16–2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | York | 14–15 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 09 Nov 1907 | Dewsbury | 0 | bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 09 Nov 1907 | Huddersfield | 0 | bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 09 Nov 1907 | Wakefield Trinity | 0 | bye |
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Dewsbury | 3–15 | Hull | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Halifax | 31–0 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Huddersfield | 2–2 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Hunslet | 17–10 | Leeds | Parkside |
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Wed 27 Nov 1907 | Wakefield Trinity | 12–0 | Huddersfield | Belle Vue |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 07 Dec 1907 | Hull | 2–16 | Halifax | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 07 Dec 1907 | Hunslet | 10–0 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=45 abbr="Att" | Att | width=60 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 21 December 1907 | Hunslet | 17–0 | Halifax | Headingley | 15,000 | 397 | 2 | [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Hunslet | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Halifax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Herbert Place | 1 | Billy Little | |||
| Fred Farrar | 2 | Harry Morley | |||
| Charlie Ward | 3 | Fred Atkins | |||
| Billy Eagers | 4 | Eddie Ward | |||
| Billy Batten | 5 | Joe Riley | |||
| Albert Goldthorpe | 6 | Jimmy Hilton | |||
| Fred Smith | 7 | Tommy Grey | |||
| Harry Wilson | 8 | Joseph Brearley | |||
| Billy Brookes | 9 | Fred Hammond | |||
| Bill Dukes | 10 | Asa Robinson | |||
| Jack Randall | 11 | Fred Littlewood | |||
| Tom Walsh | 12 | John Langhorn | |||
| Walter Wray | 13 | L Sunderland | |||
| Coach | |||||
| 17 | score | 0 | |||
| 4 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Billy Batten | T | ||||
| Fred Smith | T | ||||
| Albert Goldthorpe | T | ||||
| T | |||||
| T | |||||
| Goals | |||||
| Charlie Ward | G | ||||
| Billy Eagers | G | ||||
| Albert Goldthorpe (2) | G | ||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | Billy Mc Cutcheon (Oldham) | ||||
| Attendance: 15,000 |
1 * 1 * First Yorkshire Cup match played by newly formed club Bradford Northern who replaced Bradford who had converted to Soccer
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
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)