| 1936–37 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | York |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Wakefield Trinity |
| Prevseason Link: | 1935–36 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1935–36 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1937–38 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1937–38 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 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 Mansfield, Coventry, this season's appearance of Newcastle, and even last year's appearance of 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)
1936 was the twenty-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
York won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 9-2
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 19,000 and receipts were £1,294
This was the York's second successive appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final, last year as defeated finalists. It was also the third and last of York's Yorkshire Cup winning appearances, although they would appear in the finals twice more, on each occasion ending as defeated finalists
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, one "leavers" with the loss of Acton & Willesden and one new entrant in the form of Newcastle. This resulted in the total number of entries remaining the same as last season at sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 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 12 Sep 1936 | Bradford Northern | 11-12 | Leeds | Odsal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | Dewsbury | 8-0 | Keighley | Crown Flatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | Halifax | 7-0 | Castleford | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | Huddersfield | 2-8 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13-17 | Hull | Craven Park (1) | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | Hunslet | 19-5 | Featherstone Rovers | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | Newcastle | 7-7 | Bramley | Brough Park[4] | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 12 Sep 1936 | York | 8-2 | Batley | Clarence Street |
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 16 Sep 1936 | Bramley | 11-7 | Newcastle | Barley Mow |
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 | Wed 23 Sep 1936 | Hunslet | 15-7 | Halifax | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 23 Sep 1936 | Wakefield Trinity | 20-7 | Bramley | Belle Vue | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 23 Sep 1936 | York | 14-2 | Dewsbury | Clarence Street | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Thu 24 Sep 1936 | Hull | 12-9 | Leeds | Boulevard |
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 | Wed 30 Sep 1936 | Wakefield Trinity | 11-6 | Hunslet | Belle Vue | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 30 Sep 1936 | York | 5-0 | Hull | Clarence Street |
| 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 17 October 1936 | York | 9-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | 19,000 | 1,294 | 2 3 | [5] [6] [7] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | York | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Wakefield Trinity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Tommy Dingsdale | 1 | Robert "Bob" Oliver | |||
| T. Western | 2 | T. Ryan /J. 'Mackie' Ryan | |||
| W. Welsh | 3 | John Malpass | |||
| S. Hunt | 4 | J. Pearman/M. Pearman | |||
| H. Haigh | 5 | F G "Freddie" Smart | |||
| Gurnos Rees | 6 | Sam Herberts | |||
| William Thomas | 7 | Herbert "Harry" Goodfellow | |||
| L. Sharpe | 8 | Harry Wilkinson | |||
| Harry Field | 9 | Clifford "CJ" Carter | |||
| Dai Prosser | 10 | Jimmy A. Hobson | |||
| Horace Coldrick | 11 | William "Bill" Horton | |||
| Fred Elias | 12 | G H "Mick" Exley | |||
| Norman Fender | 13 | Alfred Watson | |||
| ?? | Coach | ?? | |||
| 9 | score | 2 | |||
| 0 | HT | 2 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| S. Hunt (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Tommy Dingsdale (2) | G | Robert/Robin "Bob" Oliver (1) | |||
| Norman Fender (1) | G | ||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | unknown | ||||
1 * Newcastle's first Yorkshire Cup match. According to "The Grounds of Rugby League",[4] Newcastle RLFC played at Brough Park in the 1936/37 season. For 1937/38 the team moved to the new White City Stadium in Gateshead.
2 * The receipts are given as £1,294 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[6] and 1990-91[7] but as £1 less as £1,293 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973" [5]
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.