| 1919–20 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Huddersfield |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Leeds |
| Prevseason Link: | 1918–19 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1918–19 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1920–21 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1920–21 |
| No Of Teams: | 14 |
The 1919–20 Yorkshire Cup was the twelfth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This season saw the junior/amateur club Featherstone Rovers being invited again, and this, together with the restart-up of Keighley after the wartime close-down, resulted in an increase of one bringing the total entries up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in two byes in the first round.
This year saw the cup holders retain the trophy after winning for the fourth successive time, with Huddersfield winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 24–5 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was, 24,935 and receipts were ££2,096. This was Huddersfield's seventh appearance in what had been seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and this season (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 fourth consecutive win.
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 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)
Involved 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 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 18 Oct 1919 | Bradford Northern | 3–5 | Batley | Birch Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 18 Oct 1919 | Bramley | 18–5 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Barley Mow | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 18 Oct 1919 | Featherstone Rovers | 15–4 | Keighley | Post Office Road | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 18 Oct 1919 | Halifax | 4–9 | Huddersfield | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 18 Oct 1919 | Leeds | 8–5 | Dewsbury | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 18 Oct 1919 | York | 10–5 | Hunslet | Clarence Street | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Hull | bye | [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Wakefield Trinity | 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 1 Nov 1919 | Batley | 12–2 | Featherstone Rovers | Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 1 Nov 1919 | Huddersfield | 33–8 | Hull | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 1 Nov 1919 | Leeds | 14–4 | Bramley | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 1 Nov 1919 | Wakefield Trinity | 4–3 | York | 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 15 Nov 1919 | Huddersfield | 15–5 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 15 Nov 1919 | Leeds | 16–5 | Batley | Headingley |
| 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 29 November 1919 | Huddersfield | 24–5 | Leeds | Thrum Hall | 24935 | £2,096 | 2 | [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Huddersfield | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Leeds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Major Holland | 1 | J. H. Roberts | |||
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld | 2 | Jim Bacon | |||
| Tom Gleeson | 3 | William Davies | |||
| Harold Wagstaff | 4 | John Campbell | |||
| Stan Moorhouse | 5 | Squire Stockwell | |||
| Johnny Rogers | 6 | Joe Brittain | |||
| Robert Habron | 7 | A. E. Jenkinson | |||
| Aaron Lee | 8 | F. Mirfield | |||
| Arthur Swinden | 9 | F. Godward | |||
| Herbert Sherwood | 10 | W. N. Whiting | |||
| Ben Gronow | 11 | Billy Ward | |||
| G. Naylor | 12 | Fred Webster | |||
| Douglas Clark | 13 | Fred Carter | |||
| ?? | Coach | ?? | |||
| 24 | score | 5 | |||
| 13 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Stan Moorhouse (4) | T | W. N. Whiting (1) | |||
| R Habron (1) | T | ||||
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Ben Gronow (3) | G | F. Mirfield (1) | |||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | B. Ennion (Wigan) | ||||
1 * Featherstone Rovers were at the time a junior/amateur club. They eventually joined the League for season 1921–22
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.