1961 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Wakefield Trinity | |||
| Runners-up | Leeds | |||
| ||||
The 1961 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 19-9
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,329 and receipts were £2,864
This was Wakefield Trinity's second consecutive triumph and the club's fourth appearance out of five 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 entants 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[1][2]
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri 1 Sep 1961 | Castleford | 37-8 | Halifax | Wheldon Road | |||||||
| 2 | Fri 1 Sep 1961 | Dewsbury | 0-15 | Batley | Crown Flatt | |||||||
| 3 | Sat 2 Sep 1961 | Featherstone Rovers | 31-6 | Doncaster | Post Office Road | |||||||
| 4 | Sat 2 Sep 1961 | Hull F.C. | 9-8 | Huddersfield | Boulevard | 11,000 | [3][5] | |||||
| 5 | Sat 2 Sep 1961 | Keighley | 14-23 | Hunslet | Lawkholme Lane | |||||||
| 6 | Sat 2 Sep 1961 | Leeds | 46-13 | Hull KR | Headingley | |||||||
| 7 | Sat 2 Sep 1961 | Wakefield Trinity | 73-5 | Bradford Northern | Belle Vue | 1 | [6] | |||||
| 8 | Sat 2 Sep 1961 | York | 36-15 | Bramley | Clarence Street |
Round 2 - Quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 13 Sep 1961 | Leeds | 20-12 | Castleford | Headingley | ||||||
| 2 | Tue 19 Sep 1961 | Featherstone Rovers | 21-11 | Batley | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 3 | Tue 19 Sep 1961 | Hull F.C. | 7-13 | Wakefield Trinity | Boulevard | [5][6] | |||||
| 4 | Wed 20 Sep 1961 | York | 31-9 | Hunslet | 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 | Wed 4 Oct 1961 | Leeds | 11-3 | Featherstone Rovers | Headingley | ||||||
| 2 | Wed 4 Oct 1961 | Wakefield Trinity | 24-4 | York | Belle Vue | [6] |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 11 November 1961 | Wakefield Trinity | 19-9 | Leeds | Odsal | 16,329 | £2,864 | 2 3 4 | [6][7][8] |
Teams and scorers[3][4][6]
| Wakefield Trinity | № | Leeds |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Gerry Round | 1 | Ken Thornett |
| Fred Smith | 2 | Garry Hemingway |
| Alan Skene | 3 | Dennis Goodwin |
| Neil Fox | 4 | Fred Pickup |
| Colin Greenwood | 5 | Eddie Ratcliffe |
| Harold Poynton | 6 | Lewis Jones |
| Keith Holliday | 7 | Colin Evans |
| Jack Wilkinson | 8 | Don Robinson |
| Milan Kosanović | 9 | Barry Simms |
| Albert Firth | 10 | Trevor Whitehead |
| Brian Briggs | 11 | Jack Fairbank |
| Don Vines | 12 | John Sykes |
| Derek "Rocky" Turner (c) | 13 | Colin Tomlinson |
| Ken Traill | Coach | Dai Prosser |
| Football Manager | Joe Warham | |
| 19 | score | 9 |
| 5 | HT | 5 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Derek "Rocky" Turner (1) | T | Garry Hemingway (1) |
| Alan Skene (1) | T | |
| Fred Smith (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Neil Fox (5) | G | Lewis Jones (3) |
| G | ||
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | Tom Watkinson (Manchester) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 73 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * This was both the record score and winning margin at the time. It also equalled Wakefield Trinity's record score (v Broughton Moor Amat in 1950) - Gerry Round kicked 11 goals to equal the club record
2 * The attendance is given as 16,429 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[6] and 16,329 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[7] and 1990-91[8]
3 * The receipts are quoted as £2,914 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973"[6] but £2,864 in the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[7] and 1990-91[8]
4 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington
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)
See also
References
- 1 2 "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- 1 2 3 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1962" (PDF).
- 1 2 HC&AC Committee (1962). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1962 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- 1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- 1 2 3 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- 1 2 3 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
External links
- Saints Heritage Society
- 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com
- Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
- Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
- The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org