1907 Yorkshire Cup
The 1907 Yorkshire Cup was the third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This year's final was a repeat of the first Yorkshire Cup final in which the same two clubs reached the same outcome. Hunslet won the trophy for the second time in three years by beating Halifax by the score of 17–0
| 1907–08 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 13 |
| Winners | Hunslet |
| Runners-up | Halifax |
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts were £397
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, Pontefract folded part way through the last season, and last years cup winner and cup holder, Bradford, became turncoats to play with the round ball. As replacement, a new club Bradford Northern joined the league, resulting in an overall decrease of two from 1906, and giving a total of thirteen entrants.
This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.
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 09 Nov 1907 | Halifax | 10–5 | Batley | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Hull | 21–10 | Keighley | Boulevard | [3] | |||||
| 3 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Hunslet | 50–0 | Bramley | Parkside | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | Leeds | 16–2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 09 Nov 1907 | York | 14–15 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street | 1 | |||||
| 6 | 09 Nov 1907 | Dewsbury | 0 | bye | |||||||
| 7 | 09 Nov 1907 | Huddersfield | 0 | bye | |||||||
| 8 | 09 Nov 1907 | Wakefield Trinity | 0 | bye |
Round 2 – Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Dewsbury | 3–15 | Hull | Crown Flatt | [3] | |||||
| 2 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Halifax | 31–0 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Huddersfield | 2–2 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 23 Nov 1907 | Hunslet | 17–10 | Leeds | Parkside |
Round 2 – Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Wed 27 Nov 1907 | Wakefield Trinity | 12–0 | Huddersfield | Belle Vue |
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 | Sat 07 Dec 1907 | Hull | 2–16 | Halifax | Boulevard | [3] | |||||
| 2 | Sat 07 Dec 1907 | Hunslet | 10–0 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 21 December 1907 | Hunslet | 17–0 | Halifax | Headingley | 15,000 | 397 | 2 | [4][5] |
Teams and scorers
| Hunslet | № | Halifax |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Herbert Place | 1 | Billy Little |
| Fred Farrar | 2 | Harry Morley |
| C. Ward | 3 | Fred Atkins |
| Billy Eagers | 4 | Eddie Ward |
| Billy Batten | 5 | Joe Riley |
| Albert Goldthorpe | 6 | Jimmy Hilton |
| Fred Smith | 7 | Tommy Grey |
| Harry Wilson | 8 | Joseph Brearley |
| Billy Brookes | 9 | Fred Hammond |
| Bill Dukes | 10 | Asa Robinson |
| Jack Randall | 11 | Fred Littlewood |
| Tom Walsh | 12 | J.W. Langhorn |
| W. Wray | 13 | L Sunderland |
| Coach | ||
| 17 | score | 0 |
| 4 | HT | 0 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Billy Batten | T | |
| Fred Smith | T | |
| Albert Goldthorpe | T | |
| T | ||
| T | ||
| Goals | ||
| C. Ward | G | |
| Billy Eagers | G | |
| Albert Goldthorpe (2) | G | |
| DG | ||
| Referee | W. Mc Cutcheon (Oldham) | |
| Attendance: 15,000 |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 * 1 * First Yorkshire Cup match played by newly formed club Bradford Northern who replaced Bradford who had converted to Soccer
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
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)
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