| 1924–25 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Wakefield Trinity |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Batley |
| Prevseason Link: | 1923 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1923–24 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1925 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1925–26 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1924–25 Yorkshire Cup was the seventeenth occasion on which the competition was held. This year's final was between two local rivals, Wakefield Trinity, who won the trophy by beating Batley by the score of 9-8. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 25,546 and receipts were £1,912.
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).
This season there were again two junior/amateur clubs taking part, Wyke and Castleford. The number of entries remained at last year's "full house" total of sixteen again obviating the necessity of having byes.[1] [2]
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 11 Oct 1924 | Bramley | 5-9 | Dewsbury | Barley Mow | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Huddersfield | 18-18 | Batley | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 45-0 | Halifax | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Hunslet | 2-11 | York | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Keighley | 13-0 | Bradford Northern | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Leeds | 24-10 | Castleford | Headingley | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Wakefield Trinity | 20-8 | Hull | Belle Vue | [3] [4] | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 11 Oct 1924 | Wyke | 3-19 | Featherstone Rovers | venue unknown | 2 |
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 | Tue 14 Oct 1924 | Batley | 12-3 | Huddersfield | Mount Pleasant |
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 25 Oct 1924 | Featherstone Rovers | 2-13 | Batley | Post Office Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 25 Oct 1924 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 16-0 | York | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 25 Oct 1924 | Keighley | 5-8 | Wakefield Trinity | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 25 Oct 1924 | Leeds | 24-4 | Dewsbury | Headingley |
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 08 Nov 1924 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 8-10 | Batley | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 08 Nov 1924 | Leeds | 4-5 | Wakefield Trinity | 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 22 November 1924 | Wakefield Trinity | 9-8 | Batley | Headingley | 25,546 | £1,912 | 3 | [5] [6] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Wakefield Trinity | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Batley |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Len Abraham(s) | 1 | Joseph "Joe" Robinson | |||
| C. A. "Charlie" Pollard | 2 | John Cyril Stacey | |||
| Billy Batten | 3 | George Davidge | |||
| Peter Reid | 4 | Harry Rees | |||
| Edward "Ned" Thomas | 5 | J. Kirkby | |||
| Thomas "Tommy" Pickup | 6 | William "Willie" Scott | |||
| Jonathan "Jonty" Parkin (c) | 7 | Isaac "Ike" John Fowler | |||
| Bernard P Gould | 8 | Alonza Brook | |||
| Robert "Bob" White | 9 | Jack Leeming | |||
| Ernest W. Blower | 10 | Jack W. Smith | |||
| Thomas Gibson | 11 | Fred Carter | |||
| William "Bill" Horton | 12 | George Douglas | |||
| C H "Charlie" Glossop | 13 | Frank Gallagher | |||
| ?? | Coach | ?? | |||
| 9 | score | 8 | |||
| 5 | HT | 8 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Jonathan "Jonty" Parkin (1) | T | 2 | |||
| T | |||||
| Goals | |||||
| C. A. "Charlie" Pollard (2) | G | 1 | |||
| Jonathan "Jonty" Parkin (1) | G | ||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | unknown | ||||
1 * Castleford were at that time a junior club. They joined the league for season 1926–27
2 * Wyke are a junior/amateur club from Wyke, near Bradford http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/wykearlfc/a/history-7698.html
3 * 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.
4 * The initial is given as "A Davidge" in the book "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873–1973"[4]