1911–12 Yorkshire Cup
# 1911–12 Yorkshire Cup

The 1911–12 Yorkshire Cup was the seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year saw a previous winner, Huddersfield, win the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 22-10

The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £700. This was Huddersfield's third appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.)

## Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's new entrant Coventry left to join the Lancashire Cup, reducing the number of entries by one to a total of thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.

## Competition and Results

### Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sat 11 Oct 1911 | Hull | 2-8 | Hunslet | Boulevard |
| 2 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Bramley | 3-25 | Dewsbury | Barley Mow |
| 3 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Huddersfield | 15-2 | Batley | Fartown |
| 4 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 23-9 | Wakefield Trinity | Hull Kingston Rovers |
| 5 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Leeds | 17-5 | Keighley | Headingley |
| 6 | | Bradford Northern | | bye | |
| 7 | | Halifax | | bye | |
| 8 | | York | | bye | |

### Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sat 14 Oct 1911 | Bradford Northern | 9-24 | Hunslet | Birch Lane | 1 |
| 2 | Sat 28 Oct 1911 | Huddersfield | 34-6 | Dewsbury | Fartown | |
| 3 | Sat 28 Oct 1911 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 15-2 | York | Hull Kingston Rovers | |
| 4 | Sat 28 Oct 1911 | Leeds | 9-2 | Halifax | Headingley | |

### Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Sat 11 Nov 1911 | Hunslet | 3-5 | Huddersfield | Parkside | | | | |
| 2 | Sat 11 Nov 1911 | Leeds | 0-11 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Saturday 25 November 1911 | Huddersfield | 22-10 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Belle Vue | 20000 | 700 | 2 | |

**Teams and scorers**

| Huddersfield | № | Hull Kingston Rovers |
| - | - | - |
| | teams | |
| Jack Bartholomew | 1 | Alf Carmichael |
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld | 2 | George Spivey |
| Edgar Wrigley | 3 | Phil Thomas |
| Harold Wagstaff | 4 | R. Hughes |
| Stan Moorhouse | 5 | J. Charles "Slasher" Brain |
| Thomas Grey | 6 | Bruce Craven |
| Jim Davies | 7 | Thomas Surman |
| W. Brook | 8 | Arthur Moore |
| Con Byrne | 9 | William "Bill" Huskins |
| Douglas Clark | 10 | Jake Blackmore |
| Ben Gronow | 11 | Arthur Spackman |
| John Higson | 12 | C. McDonald |
| Herbert Sherwood | 13 | R. Fearnley |
| ?? | Coach | (??) |
| 22 | score | 10 |
| 16 | HT | 2 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| John Higson (1) | T | R. Hughes (1) |
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1) | T | C. McDonald (1) |
| Edgar Wrigley (1) | T | |
| Harold Wagstaff (1) | T | |
| Stan Moorhouse (1) | T | |
| Thomas Grey (1) | T | |
| | Goals | |
| Thomas Grey (2) | G | Alf Carmichael (2) |
| | G | |
| | Drop Goals | |
| | DG | |
| Referee | | J. F. May (St. Helens) |

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 | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 9 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 24 | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 2 | Hunslet | Hunslet | 24 | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 8 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 8 | | | | Hunslet | Hunslet | 3 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 6 | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 16 | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 6 | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 2 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 34 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 6 | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 3 | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 6 | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 25 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 25 | | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 22 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 10 |
| Leeds | Leeds | 17 | | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 10 |
| Keighley | Keighley | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 5 | Leeds | Leeds | 9 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Halifax | Halifax | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | | Halifax | Halifax | 2 | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 11 | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 23 | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 11 | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 15 | | | | | | | |
| | | | York | York | 2 | | | | | | | |
| York | York | | York | York | 2 | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup game played at this ground, to which Bradford Northern moved for season 1908-09 2 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield

### 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)

