| 1946–47 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Wakefield Trinity |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Hull |
| Prevseason Link: | 1945 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1945–46 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1947 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1947–48 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
1946–47 was the thirty-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 10-0
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 34,300 and receipts were £3,718
This is Wakefield Trinity second successive appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final, last year they were beaten by Bradford Northern 5-2
This season junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were invited to take part. This increased the number of clubs who entered last season by one to a total number of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
| 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=50 abbr="agg" | agg | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 6 Sep 1946 | Yorkshire Amateurs | 7-28 | York | Parkside | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 7 Sep 1946 | Batley | 8-9 | Hunslet | Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 8 Sep 1946 | Bramley | 4-9 | Dewsbury | Barley Mow | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 9 Sep 1946 | Featherstone Rovers | 10-16 | Hull | Post Office Road | [3] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 10 Sep 1946 | Huddersfield | 20-5 | Bradford Northern | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 11 Sep 1946 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 10-9 | Halifax | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 12 Sep 1946 | Keighley | 14-11 | Wakefield Trinity | Lawkholme Lane | [4] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 13 Sep 1946 | Leeds | 8-11 | Castleford | Headingley |
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
| 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=50 abbr="agg" | agg | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 14 Sep 1946 | York | 29-12 | Yorkshire Amateurs | Clarence Street | 57-19 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 15 Sep 1946 | Hunslet | 10-4 | Batley | Parkside | 19-12 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 16 Sep 1946 | Dewsbury | 9-8 | Bramley | Crown Flatt | 18-12 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 17 Sep 1946 | Hull | 24-3 | Featherstone Rovers | Boulevard | 42-13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 18 Sep 1946 | Bradford Northern | 3-20 | Huddersfield | Odsal | 8-40 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 19 Sep 1946 | Halifax | 7-11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Thrum Hall | 16-21 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 20 Sep 1946 | Wakefield Trinity | 8-2 | Keighley | Belle Vue | 19-16 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 21 Sep 1946 | Castleford | 16-7 | Leeds | 27-15 |
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis
| 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=50 abbr="agg" | agg | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 23 Sep 1946 | Hunslet | 10-9 | Dewsbury | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mon 24 Sep 1946 | Huddersfield | 10-15 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Fartown | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Thu 25 Oct 1946 | Hull | 42-8 | York | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Thu 26 Oct 1946 | Wakefield Trinity | 11-2 | Castleford | Belle Vue |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis
| 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=50 abbr="agg" | agg | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thu 28 Oct 1946 | Hull | 15-11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 29 Oct 1946 | Wakefield Trinity | 7-4 | Hunslet | Belle Vue |
| 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=50 abbr="agg" | agg | width=45 abbr="Att" | Att | width=60 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 31 November 1946 | Wakefield Trinity | 10-0 | Hull | Headingley | 34,300 | £3,718 | 2 3 4 | [5] [6] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Wakefield Trinity | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Hull |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Billy Teall | 1 | Freddie Miller (c) | |||
| Jackie Perry | 2 | Tommy Glynn | |||
| Johnny Jones | 3 | Ivor Watts | |||
| Jim Croston | 4 | Alan Sinclair | |||
| Dennis Baddeley | 5 | Albert Bowers | |||
| Ron Rylance (c) | 6 | Ernie Lawrence | |||
| Arthur Fletcher | 7 | Tom Johnson | |||
| Harry Wilkinson | 8 | Fred Shillito | |||
| Len Marson | 9 | Harry Wilkinson | |||
| Jim Higgins | 10 | Stan Jimmison | |||
| Mick Exley | 11 | Charlie Booth | |||
| Harry Murphy | 12 | Jack Tindall | |||
| Len Bratley | 13 | Alf Shakesby | |||
| probably James "Jim" Croston | Coach | Ted Tattersfield (trainer) | |||
| 10 | score | 0 | |||
| 0 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Ron Rylance (1) | T | no score | |||
| Arthur Fletcher (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Jackie Perry (2) | G | ||||
| Referee | George Phillips (Widnes) | ||||
All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.
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)
Can anyone add any further details about Yorkshire Amateurs