1962–63 Yorkshire Cup

The 1962–63 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Hunslet won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 12-2. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,742 and receipts were £4,514 It is the last time for twenty-two years that the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would again exceed 20,000

1962–63 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersHunslet
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

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 sixteen. This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.

Competition and results

[1][2][3][4]

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
1Fri 7 Sep 1962Castleford28-2BatleyWheldon Road
2Fri 7 Sep 1962Hull F.C.12-3HuddersfieldBoulevard9,000[5][4]
3Sat 8 Sep 1962Bradford Northern5-11BramleyOdsal
4Sat 8 Sep 1962Featherstone Rovers25-10DoncasterPost Office Road
5Sat 8 Sep 1962Halifax22-7DewsburyThrum Hall
6Sat 8 Sep 1962Hull Kingston Rovers45-10KeighleyCraven Park (1)
7Sat 8 Sep 1962Hunslet34-9Wakefield TrinityParkside[6]
8Sat 8 Sep 1962Leeds12-12YorkHeadingley

Round 1 - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
RWed 12 Sep 1962York7-6LeedsClarence Street

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 17 Sep 1962Featherstone Rovers21-10BramleyPost Office Road
2Mon 17 Sep 1962Hull Kingston Rovers28-12CastlefordCraven Park (1)
3Mon 17 Sep 1962Hunslet18-7Hull F.C.Parkside[5]
4Wed 19 Sep 1962York2-12HalifaxClarence 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
1Mon 1 Oct 1962Halifax6-7HunsletThrum Hall
2Mon 1 Oct 1962Hull Kingston Rovers22-6Featherstone RoversCraven Park (1)

Final
Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 27 October 1962Hunslet12-2Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley22,742£4,5141[7][8]

Teams and Scorers
Hunslet № Hull Kingston Rovers
teams
William "Billy" Langton1Cyril Kellett
Barry Lee2Graham Paul
Geoff Shelton3Terry Major
Alan Preece4Mike Blackmore
Arthur Render5Robert Harris
Brian Gabbitas6Dave Elliott
Jeff Stevenson7Brian Hatch
Dennis Hartley8Ken Grice
Bernard Prior9Alan Lockwood
Ken Eyre10Jim Drake
William "Billy" Baldwinson11Brian Tyson
Cliff Lambert12John Taylor
Fred Ward13Harry Poole (c)
Fred WardCoachColin Hutton
12score2
5HT0
Scorers
Tries
Geoff Shelton (1)T
Billy Baldwinson (1)T
Goals
Billy Langton (2)GCyril Kellett (1)
Dennis Hartley (1)G
Drop Goals
DG
RefereeRon Gelder (Wilmslow)

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
            
Leeds 12 (6)
York 12 (7)
York 2
Halifax 12
Halifax 22
Dewsbury 7
Halifax 6
Hunslet 7
Hunslet 34
Wakefield Trinity 9
Hunslet 18
Hull F.C. 7
Hull F.C. 12
Huddersfield 3
Hunslet 12
Hull Kingston Rovers 2
Hull Kingston Rovers 45
Keighley 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 28
Castleford 12
Castleford 28
Batley 2
Hull Kingston Rovers 22
Featherstone Rovers 6
Featherstone Rovers 25
Doncaster 10
Featherstone Rovers 21
Bramley 10
Bradford Northern 5
Bramley 11

Notes and comments

1 * 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)

See also

References
  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. HC&AC committee (1963). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1963 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  4. "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1963" (PDF).
  5. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. 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.
  7. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  8. Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.
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