| 1962–63 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Hunslet |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Prevseason Link: | 1961 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1961–62 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1963 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1963–64 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1962–63 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Hunslet won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 12-2.The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,742 and receipts were £4,514It is the last time for twenty-two years that the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would again exceed 20,000
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 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 | Fri 7 Sep 1962 | Castleford | 28-2 | Batley | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Fri 7 Sep 1962 | Hull F.C. | 12-3 | Huddersfield | Boulevard | 9,000 | [5] | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Bradford Northern | 5-11 | Bramley | Odsal | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Featherstone Rovers | 25-10 | Doncaster | Post Office Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Halifax | 22-7 | Dewsbury | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 45-10 | Keighley | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Hunslet | 34-9 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside | [6] | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Leeds | 12-12 | York | Headingley |
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 12 Sep 1962 | York | 7-6 | Leeds | Clarence Street |
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 | Mon 17 Sep 1962 | Featherstone Rovers | 21-10 | Bramley | Post Office Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mon 17 Sep 1962 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 28-12 | Castleford | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Mon 17 Sep 1962 | Hunslet | 18-7 | Hull F.C. | Parkside | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 19 Sep 1962 | York | 2-12 | Halifax | Clarence Street |
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 1 Oct 1962 | Halifax | 6-7 | Hunslet | Thrum Hall | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mon 1 Oct 1962 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 22-6 | Featherstone Rovers | Craven Park (1) |
| 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 27 October 1962 | Hunslet | 12-2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | 22,742 | £4,514 | 1 | [7] [8] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Hunslet | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Hull Kingston Rovers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| William "Billy" Langton | 1 | Cyril Kellett | |||
| Barry Lee | 2 | Graham Paul | |||
| Geoff Shelton | 3 | Terry Major | |||
| Alan Preece | 4 | Mike Blackmore | |||
| Arthur Render | 5 | Robert Harris | |||
| Brian Gabbitas | 6 | Dave Elliott | |||
| Jeff Stevenson | 7 | Brian Hatch | |||
| Dennis Hartley | 8 | Ken Grice | |||
| Bernard Prior | 9 | Alan Lockwood | |||
| Ken Eyre | 10 | Jim Drake | |||
| William "Billy" Baldwinson | 11 | Brian Tyson | |||
| Cliff Lambert | 12 | John Taylor | |||
| Fred Ward | 13 | Harry Poole (c) | |||
| Fred Ward | Coach | Colin Hutton | |||
| 12 | score | 2 | |||
| 5 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Geoff Shelton (1) | T | ||||
| Billy Baldwinson (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Billy Langton (2) | G | Cyril Kellett (1) | |||
| Dennis Hartley (1) | G | ||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | Ron Gelder (Wilmslow) | ||||
1 * 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.