1908–09 Yorkshire Cup
The 1908–09 Yorkshire Cup was the fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league tournament, was held. This year's final was between cup holder Hunslet and the previous season's runner-up Halifax with this year the reverse result, Halifax winning the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 9-6. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,000 and receipts were £356. This was the third meeting between the two teams, Halifax and Hunslet, who had now met in three out of the first four previous finals, Hunslet having won on both earlier occasions in 1905–06 and 1907–08.
| 1908–09 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 13 |
| Winners | Halifax |
| Runners-up | Hunslet |
Background
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.
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 10 Oct 1908 | Halifax | 13-0 | Leeds | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13-19 | Batley | Craven Street (off Holderness Road) | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | Keighley | 6-14 | Hunslet | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | Wakefield Trinity | 0-17 | Huddersfield | Belle Vue | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | York | 8-2 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street | ||||||
| 6 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | Bramley | 0 | bye | |||||||
| 7 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | Dewsbury | 0 | bye | |||||||
| 8 | Sat 10 Oct 1908 | Hull | 0 | bye | [3] |
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 24 Oct 1908 | Dewsbury | 32-2 | Bramley | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 24 Oct 1908 | Halifax | 31-2 | Hull | Thrum Hall | [3] | |||||
| 3 | Sat 24 Oct 1908 | Huddersfield | 8-13 | Batley | Fartown | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 24 Oct 1908 | York | 0-14 | Hunslet | Clarence Street |
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 14 Nov 1908 | Halifax | 9-0 | Batley | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 14 Nov 1908 | Hunslet | 10-2 | Dewsbury | Parkside |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 28 November 1908 | Halifax | 9-5 | Hunslet | Belle Vue | 13000 | 356 | 1 | [4][5] |
Teams and scorers
| Halifax | № | Hunslet |
|---|---|---|
| team unknown | teams | team unknown |
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| Coach | ||
| 9 | score | 6 |
| 7 | HT | 0 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| T | ||
| T | ||
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| Goals | ||
| G | ||
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| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | unknown | |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York) | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * 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
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)
References
- "Rugby League Project".
- Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results 1896/1897".
- 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.
- Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 14 – 1908–09". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a