1964–65 Yorkshire Cup
# 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup

The 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 18-2. The match was played at Fartown, Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,527 and receipts were £2,707.

This was Wakefield Trinity's fifth Yorkshire Cup final appearance in a period of nine years (which included four as cup winners and one as runner-up).

## 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 4 Sep 1964 | Keighley | 22-3 | Doncaster | Lawkholme Lane | |
| 2 | Fri 4 Sep 1964 | Leeds | 25-8 | Hunslet | Headingley | |
| 3 | Sat 5 Sep 1964 | Bradford Northern | 6-17 | Huddersfield | Odsal | 11,140 |
| 4 | Sat 5 Sep 1964 | Bramley | 2-7 | Featherstone Rovers | Barley Mow | |
| 5 | Sat 5 Sep 1964 | Castleford | 8-16 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Wheldon Road | |
| 6 | Sat 5 Sep 1964 | Dwesbury | 10-11 | Wakefield Trinity | Crown Flatt | |
| 7 | Sat 5 Sep 1964 | Halifax | 32-14 | York | Thrum Hall | |
| 8 | Sat 5 Sep 1964 | Hull F.C. | 35-9 | Batley | Boulevard | |

### Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mon 14 Sep 1964 | Halifax | 16-3 | Hull F.C. | Thrum Hall | |
| 2 | Wed 16 Sep 1964 | Featherstone Rovers | 5-15 | Wakefield Trinity | Post Office Road | |
| 3 | Wed 16 Sep 1964 | Huddersfield | 6-5 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Fartown | 4,447 |
| 4 | Thu 17 Sep 1964 | Leeds | 38-14 | Keighley | Headingley | |

### 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 | Wed 30 Sep 1964 | Huddersfield | 0-7 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | 9,371 | | | |
| 2 | Mon 5 Oct 1964 | Halifax | 7-20 | Leeds | Thrum Hall | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Saturday 31 October 1964 | Wakefield Trinity | 18-2 | Leeds | Fartown | 13,527 | £2,707 | 1 2 | |

**Teams and scorers**

| Wakefield Trinity | № | Leeds |
| - | - | - |
| | teams | |
| Donald "Don" Metcalfe | 1 | Robin Dewhurst |
| Berwyn Jones | 2 | Ronnie Cowan |
| Tony Thomas | 3 | Andrew Broatch |
| Neil Fox | 4 | Dick Gemmell |
| Gert "Oupa" Coetzer | 5 | Geoff Wriglesworth |
| Harold Poynton | 6 | Mick Shoebottom |
| Ray Owen | 7 | Barry Seabourne |
| Edward "Ted" Campbell | 8 | Bill Drake |
| George Shepherd | 9 | Alan Lockwood |
| Don Vines | 10 | Leslie Chamberlain |
| Bob Haigh | 11 | Mick Clark |
| Derek Plumstead | 12 | Louis Neumann |
| Keith Holliday | 13 | John Sykes |
| Ken Traill | Coach | Roy Francis |
| 18 | score | 2 |
| 7 | HT | 2 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Neil Fox (2) | T | |
| Berwyn Jones (2) | T | |
| | Goals | |
| Neil Fox (3) | G | Robin Dewhurst (1) |
| Referee | | Dennis Davies (Manchester) |

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

### The road to success

| First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bradford | Bradford | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | Bradford | Bradford | | | | | | |
| | | Leeds | Leeds | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | Leeds | Leeds | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | | | Bradford | Bradford | | | | |
| | | | | Keighley | Keighley | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | | | | | Keighley | Keighley | | | | | |
| New Blackpool | New Blackpool | | | | | | | | |
| New Blackpool | New Blackpool | Keighley | Keighley | | | | | | |
| | | York | York | | | | | | |
| York | York | York | York | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | | | | | | Bradford | Bradford | 8 |
| | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 5 |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 5 |
| Pontefract | Pontefract | | | | | | | | |
| Pontefract | Pontefract | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | | | | | | |
| | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | | | | |
| | | | | Halifax | Halifax | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | | | | | Halifax | Halifax | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | Halifax | Halifax | | | | | | |
| | | Hunslet | Hunslet | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | Hunslet | Hunslet | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 13,754 by the official Huddersfield 1965 Yearbook but given as 13,527 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91

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)

