1962–63 Yorkshire Cup
# 1962–63 Yorkshire Cup

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 £4,514 It is the last time for twenty-two years that the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would again exceed 20,000

## Background

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.

## Competition and results

### Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Fri 7 Sep 1962 | Castleford | 28-2 | Batley | Wheldon Road | |
| 2 | Fri 7 Sep 1962 | Hull F.C. | 12-3 | Huddersfield | Boulevard | 9,000 |
| 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 | |
| 8 | Sat 8 Sep 1962 | Leeds | 12-12 | York | Headingley | |

### Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| R | Wed 12 Sep 1962 | York | 7-6 | Leeds | Clarence Street | | | | |

### Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 |

### Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | 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) | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Saturday 27 October 1962 | Hunslet | 12-2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | 22,742 | £4,514 | 1 | |

**Teams and scorers**

| Hunslet | № | 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) |

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

### The road to success

| First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Leeds | Leeds | 12 (6) | | | | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 12 (7) | | | | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 12 (7) | York | York | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Halifax | Halifax | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 22 | Halifax | Halifax | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 7 | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 6 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 7 | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 34 | | | | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 7 | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | Hunslet | Hunslet | 18 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 7 | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 12 | Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 7 | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 3 | | | | | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 12 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 2 |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 45 | | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 2 |
| Keighley | Keighley | 10 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 10 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 28 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Castleford | Castleford | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 28 | Castleford | Castleford | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 2 | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 22 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 6 | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 25 | | | | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 6 | | | | |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 10 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 10 | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 21 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Bramley | Bramley | 10 | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 5 | Bramley | Bramley | 10 | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 11 | | | | | | | | | | |

## 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)

