1906 Yorkshire Cup

The 1906 Yorkshire Cup was the second in the Rugby Football League club tournament's history. It was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the English 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.

1906 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams15
WinnersBradford
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

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)

1906 was the second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

This year there were two new clubs to contest the final.

Bradford won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 8-5

The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 10,500 and receipts were £286

Background

Brighouse Rangers, Castleford (1896) and Normanton left the league and the three non league clubs from last season were not invited, but they were replaced by junior/amateur club New Blackpool. This resulted in an overall decrease of five clubs, leaving a total of fifteen entrants.

This, in turn, resulted in one bye in the first round.

Pontefract resigned after 8 league matches and their record was expunged, but by this time, they had played (and lost) in this competition.

Competition and Results

[1]

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 13 Oct 1906Bradford68-2BramleyPark Avenue
2Sat 13 Oct 1906Dewsbury10-27HuddersfieldCrown Flatt
3Sat 13 Oct 1906Hull3-6HalifaxBoulevard[2]
4Sat 13 Oct 1906Hull Kingston Rovers44-0PontefractCraven Street (off Holderness Road)
5Sat 13 Oct 1906Keighley34-2New BlackpoolLawkholme Lane2
6Sat 13 Oct 1906Wakefield Trinity7-19LeedsBelle Vue
7Sat 13 Oct 1906York8-7BatleyClarence Street
8Hunsletbye

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 27 Oct 1906Bradford21-5LeedsPark Avenue
2Sat 27 Oct 1906Halifax6-0HunsletThrum Hall
3Sat 27 Oct 1906Hull Kingston Rovers11-3HuddersfieldCraven Street (off Holderness Road)
4Sat 27 Oct 1906Keighley34-2YorkLawkholme Lane

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 17 Nov 1906Bradford6-4HalifaxPark Avenue
2Sat 17 Nov 1906Hull Kingston Rovers21-0KeighleyCraven Street (off Holderness Road)

Final

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 1 December 1906Bradford8-5Hull Kingston RoversBelle Vue105002863[3][4]

Teams and Scorers

Bradford Hull Kingston Rovers
teams
Gomer Gunn1Alf Carmichael
James Dechan2George West
Ervine Mosby3William "Billy" Phipps
F. Heseltine4Dan Rees
J. Connell5W. Madley
S. Brear6James "Jim" Barry
Thomas Surman7A. Lofthouse
Alex Laidlaw8Jim Gath
N. Greenwood9xW. Smith (H. W. Smith?)
H. Francis10Arthur Spackman
H. Mann11C. J. Hambrecht
J. Feather (Harry Feather?)12S. Sherwood
Walton13Andrew Windle
Coach
8score5
8HT3
Scorers
Tries
James Dechan (1)TGeorge West (1)
S. Brear (1)T
Goals
Alex Laidlaw (1)GW. Madley (1)
G
Drop Goals
DG
RefereeWilliam McCutcheon (Oldham)

Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

[5]

The road to success

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Bradford 68
Bramley 2
Bradford 21
Leeds 5
Wakefield Trinity 7
Leeds 19
Bradford 6
Keighley 4
Keighley 34
New Blackpool 2
Keighley 34
York 2
York 8
Batley 7
Bradford 8
Hull Kingston Rovers 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 44
Pontefract 0
Hull Kingston Rovers 11
Huddersfield 3
Dewsbury 10
Huddersfield 27
Hull Kingston Rovers 21
Halifax 0
Hull 3
Halifax 6
Halifax 6
Hunslet 0
Hunslet
bye

Notes and comments

1 * This was a record score at the time in the competition

2 * New Blackpool is/was a junior/amateur club from ? (possibly Leeds area - can anyone shed light on this ?)

3 * 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

See also

References

  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results 1896/1897".
  3. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  5. Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 12 – 1906–07". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a
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