1913–14 Yorkshire Cup
The 1913–14 Yorkshire Cup was the ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. 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 thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.
| 1913–14 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 13 |
| Winners | Huddersfield |
| Runners-up | Bradford Northern |
This year saw a previous two-time winner, Huddersfield taking the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 19–3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,000 and receipts were £430. This was Huddersfield's fourth appearance in what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total), and who knows, but for the intervention of the First World War and suspension of the competition, it may have been more. It was also the first of the four consecutive wins.
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
Round 1
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 18 Oct 1913 | Bradford Northern | 4-2 | Keighley | Birch Lane | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 18 Oct 1913 | Halifax | 9-0 | Batley | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 18 Oct 1913 | Huddersfield | 67-0 | Bramley | Fartown | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Sat 18 Oct 1913 | Hunslet | 8-19 | Dewsbury | Parkside | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 18 Oct 1913 | Wakefield Trinity | 8-0 | Hull | Belle Vue | [3] | |||||
| 6 | Hull Kingston Rovers | bye | |||||||||
| 7 | Leeds | bye | |||||||||
| 8 | York | bye |
Round 2 – quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 1 Nov 1913 | Dewsbury | 18-5 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 1 Nov 1913 | Halifax | 0-39 | Huddersfield | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 1 Nov 1913 | Leeds | 7-15 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 1 Nov 1913 | York | 4-9 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street |
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 15 Nov 1913 | Bradford Northern | 13-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Birch Lane | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 15 Nov 1913 | Huddersfield | 37-0 | Dewsbury | Fartown |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 29 November 1913 | Huddersfield | 19-3 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | 12000 | 430 | 2 | [4][5] |
Teams and scorers
| Huddersfield | No. | Bradford Northern |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Major Holland | 1 | H. Schofield |
| Albert Rosenfeld | 2 | W. H. Irving |
| Tom Gleeson | 3 | N. Wilby |
| Robert Habron | 4 | G. Hall |
| George Todd | 5 | F. Wilson |
| Jim Davies | 6 | J. McEwan |
| Johnny Rogers | 7 | C. Carter |
| Fred Longstaff | 8 | Joe Winterburn |
| Ben Gronow | 9 | J. Haley |
| Jack Chilcott | 10 | W. H. Mitchell |
| Douglas Clark | 11 | J. Ruck |
| Aaron Lee | 12 | J. B. Simmonds |
| John Higson | 13 | Harry Feather(?) |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 19 | score | 3 |
| 8 | HT | 0 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| George Todd (2) | T | N. Wilby (1) |
| Robert Habron (2) | T | |
| Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Major Holland (2) | G | |
| Referee | B. Ennion (Wigan) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| York | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes
1 * Highest winning margin at the time (beating Bradford's 68–2 victory over Bramley in 1906
2 * Thrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.
References
- "Rugby League Project".
- Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
- "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1913–14" (PDF).