1928–29 Yorkshire Cup

1928–29 Yorkshire Cup
1928–29 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	15
Winners	Leeds
Runners-up	Featherstone Rovers
	← 1927–28 1929–30 →

The 1928–29 Yorkshire Cup was the 21st occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers in the final by the score of 5-0. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 14,000 and receipts were £838. This was Leeds' first of six victories in a period of ten years, during which time they won every Yorkshire Cup final in which they appeared.

Background

The Rugby Football League's 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).

Competition and results

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 fifteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.^[1]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref

1	Sat 13 Oct 1928	Castleford	19-4	Keighley	Wheldon Road
2	Sat 13 Oct 1928	Dewsbury	14-3	Batley	Crown Flatt
3	Sat 13 Oct 1928	Featherstone Rovers	4-2	Bramley	Post Office Road
4	Sat 13 Oct 1928	Halifax	5-8	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall
5	Sat 13 Oct 1928	Leeds	20-5	Hull Kingston Rovers	Headingley
6	Sat 13 Oct 1928	Wakefield Trinity	7-7	Hunslet	Belle Vue
7	Sat 13 Oct 1928	York	14-9	Hull	Clarence Street	^[2]
8		Bradford Northern		bye

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 17 Oct 1928	Hunslet		11-20		Wakefield Trinity	Parkside

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Wed 24 Oct 1928	Dewsbury	26-8	Bradford Northern	Crown Flatt
2	Wed 24 Oct 1928	Huddersfield	4-7	Featherstone Rovers	Fartown
3	Wed 24 Oct 1928	Wakefield Trinity	7-24	Leeds	Belle Vue
4	Wed 24 Oct 1928	York	0-8	Castleford	Clarence Street

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue

1	Wed 7 Nov 1928	Dewsbury	5-16	Leeds	Crown Flatt
2	Wed 7 Nov 1928	Featherstone Rovers	10-6	Castleford	Post Office Road

Final

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

	Saturday 24 November 1928	Leeds		5-0		Featherstone Rovers	Belle Vue	14,000	£838	1 2	^[3]^[4]

Teams and scorers

Leeds	№	Featherstone Rovers

team unknown	teams
	1	Sid Denton
	2	G. Albert Taylor
	3	Jack Hirst
Frank O'Rourke (position uncertain)	4	Tom Askin
	5	George Whitaker
	6	Jim Denton
	7	Charles Annable
Arthur Thomas (position uncertain)	8	Ernest Barraclough
	9	J. W. Smith
	10	Herbert Rogerson
	11	Sam Shirley
	12	Arthur Haigh
	13	Joe Morgan
??	Coach	xBilly Williams

5	score	0
5	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
Frank O'Rourke	T
	Goals
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		unknown ()

Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

The road to success

The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Dewsbury	14

Batley	3
		Dewsbury	26

		Bradford Northern	8
Bradford Northern

bye
				Dewsbury	5

				Leeds	16
Wakefield Trinity	7 (20)

Hunslet	7 (11)
		Wakefield Trinity	7

		Leeds	24
Leeds	20

Hull Kingston Rovers	5
						Leeds	5

						Featherstone Rovers	0
Halifax	5

Huddersfield	8
		Huddersfield	4

		Featherstone Rovers	7
Featherstone Rovers	4

Bramley	2
				Featherstone Rovers	10

				Castleford	6
York	14

Hull	9
		York	0

		Castleford	8
Castleford	19

Keighley	4

Notes

1 * The attendance is given as 13,000 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but 14,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92^[3] and 1990-91^[4]

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

References

^ ^a ^b "Rugby League Project".
^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

External links

[RLP.orgMisc-1] "Rugby League Project".

[HullMisc-2] "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".

[Roth1991-92Misc-3] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

[Roth1990-91Misc-4] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

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