1951–52 Yorkshire Cup

The 1951–52 Yorkshire Cup was the forty-fourth occasion on which rugby league's Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Keighley in the final.

1951–52 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersWakefield Trinity
Runners-upKeighley

Background

This season no junior/amateur clubs were invited to take part, but newly elected to the league Doncaster were added to the competition, thus the number of entrants remained at the same as last season's 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.

Competition and results

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Round 1 - First leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 1 Sep 1951Dewsbury15-10HalifaxCrown Flatt
2Sat 1 Sep 1951Hull Kingston Rovers19-13HuddersfieldCraven Park (1)6,404[3]
3Sat 1 Sep 1951Castleford14-11KeighleyWheldon Road
4Sat 1 Sep 1951Wakefield Trinity15-5HullBelle Vue[5]
5Sat 1 Sep 1951Doncaster4-9HunsletYork Road Greyhound Stadium1
6Sat 1 Sep 1951Featherstone Rovers4-2Bradford NorthernPost Office Road
7Sat 1 Sep 1951Leeds18-8BramleyHeadingley
8Sat 1 Sep 1951Batley7-8YorkMount Pleasant

Round 1 - Second leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 3 Sep 1951Halifax9-3DewsburyThrum Hall19-18
2Mon 3 Sep 1951Huddersfield25-5Hull Kingston RoversFartown38-2412,198[3]
3Tue 4 Sep 1951Keighley9-0CastlefordLawkholme Lane20-14
4Wed 5 Sep 1951Hull18-18Wakefield TrinityBoulevard23-33[5]
5Wed 5 Sep 1951Hunslet12-2DoncasterParkside21-6
6Mon 10 Sep 1951Bradford Northern11-9Featherstone RoversOdsal13-13
7Mon 10 Sep 1951Bramley9-25LeedsBarley Mow17-43
8Mon 10 Sep 1951York5-21BatleyClarence Street13-28

Round 1 - Replay

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
RWed 12 Sep 1951Featherstone Rovers9-17Bradford NorthernPost Office Road

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 24 Sep 1951Hunslet27-8BatleyParkside
2Tue 25 Sep 1951Keighley18-14HalifaxLawkholme Lane
3Wed 26 Sep 1951Bradford Northern13-14LeedsOdsal
4Wed 26 Sep 1951Wakefield Trinity14-5HuddersfieldBelle Vue15,400[3]

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 8 Oct 1951Leeds17-18Wakefield TrinityHeadingley
2Tue 16 Oct 1951Keighley15-9HunsletLawkholme Lane

Final

This was Keighley's only appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final (except for the 1943 Wartime final). Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Keighley by the score of 17-3. The match was played at Fartown, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 25,495 and receipts were £3,347

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 27 October 1951Wakefield Trinity17-3KeighleyFartown25,495£3,3472 3[3][6][7][8]

Teams and scorers

Wakefield Trinity Keighley
teams
Ernest Luckman1
John "Johnny" Duggan2
Leslie "Les" Hirst3
Donald "Don" Froggett4
Denis "Dinny" Boocker5
Glyn Meredith6
Arthur Fletcher7
John "Jack" Booth8
Dennis Horner9
Bill Hudson10
W J Derek Howes11
Don Robinson12
Reginald "Reg" Hughes13
James Croston (standing in for Harry Beverley)Coach??
17score3
5HT3
Scorers
Tries
Don Robinson (1)T1
Denis "Dinny" Boocker (1)T
Reginald "Reg" Hughes (1)T
Goals
Leslie "Les" Hirst (4)G
Refereeunknown ()

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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The road to success

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.

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Featherstone Rovers 22
Bradford Northern 30
Bradford Northern 13
Leeds 14
Leeds 43
Bramley 17
Leeds 17
Wakefield Trinity 18
Wakefield Trinity 33
Hull 23
Wakefield Trinity 14
Huddersfield 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 24
Huddersfield 38
Wakefield Trinity 17
Keighley 3
Castleford 14
Keighley 20
Keighley 18
Halifax 14
Dewsbury 18
Halifax 19
Keighley 15
Hunslet 9
Doncaster 6
Hunslet 21
Hunslet 27
Batley 8
Batley 28
York 13

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played by newly elected to the league, Doncaster, and also at this stadium

2 * The receipts are given as £3,237 by the official Huddersfield 1952 Yearbook[3] but given as £3,227 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[8] and £3,347 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[6] and 1990-91[7]

3 * 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.

Due to lack of maintenance, terrace closures and finally major storm damage closing one of the stands in 1986, the final ground capacity had been reduced to just a few thousands although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup semi-final on 19 April 1947 when a crowd of 35,136 saw Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 21-0

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

References

  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1952" (PDF).
  4. HC&AC Committee (1952). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1952. HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  5. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  7. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  8. J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
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