1926–27 Yorkshire Cup

1926–27 Yorkshire Cup
1926–27 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	15
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Wakefield Trinity
	← 1925–26 1927–28 →

The 1926–27 Yorkshire Cup was the nineteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Huddersfield won the trophy for the seventh time in total by beating Wakefield Trinity in the final by the score of 10–3. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,300 and receipts were £863.

Background

The Rugby Football League's 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).

Competition and results

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's junior entrant Castleford had now turned (semi-)professional, and took part as a full league member; and so the total of entries remained the same at fifteen.^[1]^[2] This in turn resulted in one byes in the first round.

Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one byes) and 15 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 9 Oct 1926	Batley	5-3	Dewsbury	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 9 Oct 1926	Huddersfield	21-8	Keighley	Fartown
3	Sat 9 Oct 1926	Hull	14-0	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard	^[3]
4	Sat 9 Oct 1926	Hull Kingston Rovers	2-2	Halifax	Craven Park (1)
5	Sat 9 Oct 1926	Hunslet	7-13	Leeds	Parkside
6	Sat 9 Oct 1926	Wakefield Trinity	27-3	Bradford Northern	Belle Vue	^[4]
7	Sat 9 Oct 1926	York	24-2	Castleford^[a]	Clarence Street
8		Bramley		bye

Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
R	Mon 11 Oct 1926	Halifax	13-0	Hull Kingston Rovers	Thrum Hall

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Mon 18 Oct 1926	Leeds	3-26	York	Headingley
2	Tue 19 Oct 1926	Batley	2-7	Wakefield Trinity	Mount Pleasant	^[4]
3	Wed 20 Oct 1926	Bramley	4-16	Hull	Barley Mow	^[3]
4	Wed 20 Oct 1926	Halifax	8-10	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Wed 27 Oct 1926	Huddersfield	8-0	York	Fartown
2	Wed 3 Nov 1926	Wakefield Trinity	15-5	Hull	Belle Vue	^[3]^[4]

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
	Saturday 27 November 1926	Huddersfield	P^[b]	Wakefield Trinity	Headingley	^[4]

Final - Replay

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Ref
R	Wednesday 1 December 1926	Huddersfield	10-3	Wakefield Trinity	Headingley^[c]	11300	863	^[4]^[5]^[6]

Teams and scorers

Huddersfield	No.	Wakefield Trinity
	teams
Syd Walmsley	1	R. Wood/Fred Wood
	2	Ted Bateson
	3	Billy Batten
	4	Thomas "Tommy" Pickup
	5	Charlie Pollard
	6	Joe 'Sandy' Pearce
	7	Jonty Parkin (c)
	8	Thomas Coles
Douglas Clark	9	Rob in "Bob" White
Walker	10	W. Ralph Howell
Jones	11	John William Higson
	12	Bill Horton
	13	Charlie Glossop
??	Coach	??
10	score	3
5	HT	0
	Scorers
	Tries
Walker	T	Edward "Ted" Bateson (1)
Jones	T
	Goals
Syd Walmsley (2)	G
Referee		unknown

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

^[4]^[7]

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Hull Kingston Rovers	2 (0)

Halifax	2 (13)
		Halifax	8

		Huddersfield	10
Huddersfield	21

Keighley	8
				Huddersfield	8

				York	0
Hunslet	7

Leeds	13
		Leeds	3

		York	26
York	24

Castleford	2
						Huddersfield	10

						Wakefield Trinity	3
Batley	5

Dewsbury	3
		Batley	2

		Wakefield Trinity	7
Wakefield Trinity	27

Bradford Northern	2
				Wakefield Trinity	15

				Hull	5
Bramley

bye
		Bramley	4

		Hull	16
Hull	14

Featherstone Rovers	0

Notes

^ The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford, since being newly elected to the league this season
^ Match postponed due to fog
^ Headingley 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.

References

^ "Rugby League Project".
^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
^ ^a ^b ^c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.
^ 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.
^ "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1926-27" (PDF).

External links

[5] The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford, since being newly elected to the league this season

[6] Match postponed due to fog

[7] Headingley 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.

[RLP.orgMisc-1] "Rugby League Project".

[JP1975-76Misc-2] Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.

[HullMisc-3] "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".

[WakeTrinMisc-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.

[Roth1991-92Misc-8] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

[Roth1990-91Misc-9] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

[HuddRLHMisc-10] "Huddersfield RL Heritage 1926-27" (PDF).

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