1957 Yorkshire Cup
Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
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Number of teams | 16 | |||
Winners | Huddersfield | |||
Runners-up | York | |||
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1957 Yorkshire Cup
1957 was the fiftieth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Huddersfield won the trophy by beating York by the score of 15-8
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,531 and receipts were £4,123
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants 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.
Competition and Results[1][2]
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
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1 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Dewsbury | 12-28 | Bradford Northern | Crown Flatt | |||||||
2 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Doncaster | 9-29 | Castleford | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | |||||||
3 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Featherstone Rovers | 46-5 | Hull KR | Post Office Road | |||||||
4 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Huddersfield | 68-19 | Batley | Fartown | 6,912 | [4] | |||||
5 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Hull F.C. | 14-16 | Hunslet | Boulevard | [5] | ||||||
6 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Leeds | 55-10 | Bramley | Headingley | |||||||
7 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | Wakefield Trinity | 19-16 | Halifax | Belle Vue | |||||||
8 | Sat 31 Aug 1957 | York | 15-8 | Keighley | Clarence Street |
Round 2 - Quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Tue 10 Sep 1957 | Castleford | 6-19 | Leeds | Wheldon Road | ||||||
2 | Mon 16 Sep 1957 | Wakefield Trinity | 10-13 | Huddersfield | Belle Vue | 7,546 | [4] | ||||
3 | Tue 17 Sep 1957 | Bradford Northern | 5-2 | Featherstone Rovers | Odsal | ||||||
4 | Wed 18 Sep 1957 | Hunslet | 17-19 | York | Parkside |
Round 3 – Semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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1 | Mon 30 Sep 1957 | Bradford Northern | 2-2 | York | Odsal | ||||||
2 | Wed 2 Oct 1957 | Huddersfield | 14-2 | Leeds | Fartown | 11,766 | [4] |
Semi-Final - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
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R | Wed 2 Oct 1957 | York | 14-8 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street |
Final
Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
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Saturday 19 October 1957 | Huddersfield | 15-8 | York | Headingley | 22,531 | £4,123 | 1 | [4][6][7][8] |
Teams and Scorers[4][3][9]
Huddersfield | № | York |
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teams | ||
Frank Dyson | 1 | Willie Hargreaves |
Plunkett | 2 | B Smith |
Austin Kilroy | 3 | Webster |
Barrow | 4 | Geoffrey Smith |
Mick Sullivan | 5 | Flannery |
Peter Ramsden | 6 | Robinson |
Tommy Smales | 7 | Riley (c) |
Ted Slevin | 8 | Moore |
Wood | 9 | Illingworth |
David Flint | 10 | Victor "Vic" Yorke |
Brian Briggs | 11 | Basil Watts |
Kenneth "Ken" Bowman | 12 | O'Brien |
Dave Valentine (c) | 13 | Edgar Dawson |
?? | Coach | ?? |
15 | score | 8 |
7 | HT | 6 |
Scorers | ||
Tries | ||
Austin Kilroy (1) | T | Illingworth (1) |
Tommy Smales (1) | T | Flannery (1) |
Kenneth "Ken" Bowman (1) | T | |
Goals | ||
Frank Dyson (3) | G | Victor "Vic" Yorke (1) |
Drop Goals | ||
DG | ||
Referee | C F (Charlie) Appleton | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Halifax | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Wakefield Trinity | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 68 | ||||||||||||||||||
Batley | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Doncaster | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
Castleford | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
Leeds | 55 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bramley | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Huddersfield | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
York | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dewsbury | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Featherstone Rovers | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull KR | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bradford Northern | 2 (14) | ||||||||||||||||||
York | 2 (8) | ||||||||||||||||||
Hull F.C. | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hunslet | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hunslet | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
York | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
York | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Keighley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
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.
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
- ↑ "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- 1 2 HC&AC committee (1958). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1958 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1958" (PDF).
- ↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
- ↑ David Jack (1958). Empire News Football Annual 1958-59 - 72nd year. Empire News and Sunday Chronicle.
- ↑ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1957-58" (PDF).
External links
- Saints Heritage Society
- 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com
- Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
- Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
- The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org