1932–33 Yorkshire Cup Explained

1932–33 Yorkshire Cup
Structure:Regional knockout championship
Season Champs:Leeds
Season Champ Name:Winners
Runner-Up Name:Runner-up
Second Place:Wakefield Trinity
Prevseason Link:1931 Yorkshire Cup
Prevseason Year:1931–32
Nextseason Link:1933 Yorkshire Cup
Nextseason Year:1933–34
No Of Teams:15

The 1932–33 Yorkshire Cup was the fifteenth occasion on which Rugby Football League's (RFL) Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 8-0

The match was played at Fartown, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 17,685 and receipts were £1,183

This was Leeds' third of six victories in a period of ten years, during which time they won every Yorkshire Cup final in which they appeared

Background

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.

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs

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1Sat 8 Oct 1932Bradford Northern9-5HullBirch Lane[3]
2Sat 8 Oct 1932Bramley5-18HunsletBarley Mow
3Sat 8 Oct 1932Halifax17-4BatleyThrum Hall
4Sat 8 Oct 1932Huddersfield12-10Featherstone RoversFartown
5Sat 8 Oct 1932Leeds13-5DewsburyHeadingley
6Sat 8 Oct 1932Wakefield Trinity11-2KeighleyBelle Vue
7Sat 8 Oct 1932York3-0Hull Kingston RoversClarence Street
8Castlefordbye

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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1Mon 17 Oct 1932Huddersfield2-2HalifaxFartown
2Wed 19 Oct 1932Castleford26-9Bradford Northern
3Wed 19 Oct 1932Hunslet7-8Wakefield TrinityParkside
4Wed 19 Oct 1932York0-7LeedsClarence Street

Round 2 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

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RThu 20 Oct 1932Halifax2-0HuddersfieldThrum Hall

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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1Wed 26 Oct 1932Leeds9-2CastlefordHeadingley
2Wed 2 Nov 1932Wakefield Trinity16-11HalifaxBelle Vue

Final

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Saturday 19 November 1932Leeds8-0Wakefield TrinityFartown17,685£1,1831[4] [5]

Teams and scorers

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team unknown teams
1Gilbert Robinson
2Edward Brogden
Jeff Moores (position uncertain)3Frank Lingard
Frank O'Rourke (position uncertain)4Ernest Pollard
5Frederick "Freddie" G. Smart
6Joe 'Sandy' Pearce
7Sam Herberts
8Leonard Higson
9Sam Gee
10Jimmy A. Hobson
11William "Bill" Horton
12G H "Mick" Exley
13Harry Wilkinson
??Coach??
8score0
3HT0
Scorers
Tries
2Tnil
T
Goals
1G
Drop Goals
DG
Refereeunknown
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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The road to success

Notes and comments

1 * 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.

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rugby League Project.
  2. Book: Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding. John Player Yearbook 1975-76. 1991. Queen Anne Press.
  3. Web site: HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results.
  4. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. 1991. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617852 8.
  5. Book: Raymond Fletcher and David Howes. Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. 1990. Queen Anne Press. 0 35617851 X.
  6. Book: J C Lindley and D W Armitage. 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. 1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. 0 35617852 8.