1950–51 Yorkshire Cup
# 1950–51 Yorkshire Cup

1950–51 was the forty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Huddersfield won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 16-3

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 28,610 and receipts were £5,152

## Background

This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered 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

### 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 | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Featherstone Rovers | 7-20 | Leeds | Post Office Road | |
| 2 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 9-0 | Batley | Craven Park (1) | |
| 3 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Keighley | 9-14 | Castleford | Lawkholme Lane | |
| 4 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Yorkshire Amateurs | 2-35 | Hunslet | Headingley | 1 |
| 5 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Wakefield Trinity | 43-4 | York | Belle Vue | |
| 6 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Dewsbury | 14-2 | Hull | Crown Flatt | |
| 7 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Halifax | 5-5 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | |
| 8 | Sat 2 Sep 1950 | Bramley | 22-21 | Huddersfield | Barley Mow | |

### 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 | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mon 4 Sep 1950 | Leeds | 20-9 | Featherstone Rovers | Headingley | 40-16 | |
| 2 | Tue 5 Sep 1950 | Batley | 21-4 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Mount Pleasant | 21-13 | |
| 3 | Wed 6 Sep 1950 | Castleford | 2-4 | Keighley | Wheldon Road | 16-13 | |
| 4 | Wed 6 Sep 1950 | Hunslet | 26-2 | Yorkshire Amateurs | Parkside | 61-4 | 1 |
| 5 | Wed 6 Sep 1950 | York | 2-23 | Wakefield Trinity | Clarence Street | 6-66 | |
| 6 | Tue 12 Sep 1950 | Hull | 2-2 | Dewsbury | Boulevard | 4-16 | |
| 7 | Wed 13 Sep 1950 | Bradford Northern | 12-4 | Halifax | Odsal | 15-9 | |
| 8 | Wed 13 Sep 1950 | Huddersfield | 39-5 | Bramley | Fartown | 60-27 | |

### 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mon 18 Sep 1950 | Leeds | 2-29 | Huddersfield | Headingley |
| 2 | Tue 19 Sep 1950 | Batley | 10-8 | Wakefield Trinity | Mount Pleasant |
| 3 | Wed 20 Sep 1950 | Bradford Northern | 0-4 | Castleford | Odsal |
| 4 | Wed 20 Sep 1950 | Hunslet | 3-2 | Dewsbury | Parkside |

### 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Fri 6 Oct 1950 | Hunslet | 7-20 | Huddersfield | Parkside | | | | | |
| 2 | Tue 10 Oct 1950 | Batley | 2-2 | Castleford | Mount Pleasant | | | | | |

### Round 3 – semifinals - Replay

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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| R | Fri 13 Oct 1950 | Castleford | 13-9 | Batley | Wheldon Road | | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | agg | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Saturday 4 November 1950 | Huddersfield | 16-3 | Castleford | Headingley | | 28,610 | £5,152 | 2 3 | |

**Teams and scorers**

| Huddersfield | № | Castleford |
| - | - | - |
| | teams | |
| Johnny Hunter | 1 | Ron Lewis |
| Dick Cracknell | 2 | Reg Lloyd |
| Jim Bowden | 3 | George Broughton Jr. |
| I W Clark | 4 | Percy Aldred |
| Lionel Cooper | 5 | Len Brown |
| Russ Pepperell | 6 | Arthur Fisher |
| Billy Banks | 7 | George Langfield |
| Frank Wagstaff | 8 | Joe Anderson |
| Jim Mundy | 9 | Jimmy Jones |
| Arthur Wilmot | 10 | Leo Fleming |
| Bob Nicholson | 11 | George Howard |
| Ike Owens | 12 | Leslie Haughey |
| Dave Valentine | 13 | Frank Mugglestone |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 16 | score | 3 |
| 7 | HT | 3 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Russ Pepperell (2) | T | Reg Lloyd (1) |
| | Goals | |
| James Bowden (5) | G | |
| Referee | | Ron Gelder (Wakefield) |
| Man of the Match | | Billy Banks |

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

### 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 | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Yorkshire Amateurs | Yorkshire Amateurs | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 61 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 61 | Hunslet | Hunslet | 3 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 16 | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 4 | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 7 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 20 | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 16 | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 20 | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 40 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 40 | Leeds | Leeds | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 29 | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 27 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 29 | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 61 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 61 | | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 16 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 3 |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 3 |
| Batley | Batley | 21 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 21 | Batley | Batley | 10 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 66 | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 8 | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 6 | | | | Batley | Batley | 2 (9) | | | | |
| | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 2 (13) | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 9 | | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 2 (13) | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 15 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 15 | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 0 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Castleford | Castleford | 4 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 13 | Castleford | Castleford | 4 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 16 | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this year the home leg was played at Headingley, the ground of Leeds

2 * The attendance is given as 28,610 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject but 28,906 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92

3 * 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)

