| 1937–38 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Leeds |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Huddersfield |
| Prevseason Link: | 1936 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1936–37 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1938 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1938–39 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1937–38 Yorkshire Cup was the thirtieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
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)
Leeds won the trophy by beating Huddersfield by the score of 14-8
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,000 and receipts were £1,508
This was Leeds' last of their six victories in a period of ten years, during which time they won every Yorkshire Cup final in which they appeared.
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 sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no 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 11 Sep 1937 | Batley | 42-5 | Newcastle | Mount Pleasant | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Bramley | 2-5 | Keighley | Barley Mow | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Castleford | 6-8 | Dewsbury | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Huddersfield | 32-16 | Featherstone Rovers | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Hull | 21-13 | Hunslet | Boulevard | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 10-11 | Bradford Northern | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Leeds | 20-7 | York | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 11 Sep 1937 | Wakefield Trinity | 4-4 | Halifax | Belle Vue |
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 | Thu 16 Sep 1937 | Halifax | 7-6 | Wakefield Trinity | Thrum Hall |
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 22 Sep 1937 | Bradford Northern | 6-16 | Leeds | Odsal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mon 27 Sep 1937 | Huddersfield | 13-6 | Hull | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tue 28 Sep 1937 | Keighley | 7-9 | Batley | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 29 Sep 1937 | Dewsbury | 20-9 | Halifax | Crown Flatt |
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 | Mon 11 Oct 1937 | Huddersfield | 6-2 | Dewsbury | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 13 Oct 1937 | Leeds | 10-5 | 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 30 October 1937 | Leeds | 14-8 | Huddersfield | Belle Vue | 22,000 | £1,508 | 2 | [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Leeds | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Huddersfield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Charles "Charlie" Eaton | 1 | Tommy Scourfield | |||
| Eric Harris | 2 | Markham | |||
| Fred Harris | 3 | Stan Mountain | |||
| Stan Brogden | 4 | Alex Fiddes | |||
| Stanley Smith | 5 | Dennis Madden | |||
| Vic Hey | 6 | Stan Pepperell | |||
| Cliff Evans | 7 | Swallow | |||
| Harry Woods | 8 | Sherwood | |||
| Con Murphy | 9 | Whitehead | |||
| Dai Prosser | 10 | David Morgan Evans | |||
| Ken Jubb | 11 | Langford | |||
| Harry Dyer | 12 | Shaw or Senior | |||
| Ted Tattersfield | 13 | Aspinall | |||
| ?? | Coach | ?? | |||
| 14 | score | 8 | |||
| 11 | HT | 3 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| T | Stan Mountain (1) | ||||
| T | Markham (1) | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| G | Swallow (1) | ||||
| G | |||||
| Referee | unknown | ||||
1 * This was Newcastle,s second (and last) season in the league. According to "the Grounds of Rugby League"[7] Newcastle RLFC moved for 1937/38 to the new White City Stadium in Gateshead.from the previous season's venue of Brough Park.
2 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield