1926–27 Yorkshire Cup
Rugby league season
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The 1926â27 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 10â3. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,300 and receipts were £863.
| 1926â27 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 15 |
| Winners | Huddersfield |
| Runners-up | Wakefield Trinity |
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 | 5â3 | Dewsbury | Mount Pleasant | |
| 2 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Huddersfield | 21â8 | Keighley | Fartown | |
| 3 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Hull | 14â0 | Featherstone Rovers | Boulevard | [3] |
| 4 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 2â2 | Halifax | Craven Park (1) | |
| 5 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Hunslet | 7â13 | Leeds | Parkside | |
| 6 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Wakefield Trinity | 27â3 | Bradford Northern | Belle Vue | [4] |
| 7 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | York | 24â2 | 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 | 13â0 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Thrum Hall |
Round 2 â quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 18 Oct 1926 | Leeds | 3â26 | York | Headingley | |
| 2 | Tue 19 Oct 1926 | Batley | 2â7 | Wakefield Trinity | Mount Pleasant | [4] |
| 3 | Wed 20 Oct 1926 | Bramley | 4â16 | Hull | Barley Mow | [3] |
| 4 | Wed 20 Oct 1926 | Halifax | 8â10 | Huddersfield | Thrum Hall |
Round 3 â semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 27 Oct 1926 | Huddersfield | 8â0 | York | Fartown | |
| 2 | Wed 3 Nov 1926 | Wakefield Trinity | 15â5 | Hull | Belle Vue | [3][4] |
Final
The final was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday 27 November 1926, but was postponed due to fog.
1 December 1926 |
| Huddersfield | 10 â 3 | Wakefield Trinity |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Walker, Jones Goals: Walmsley (2) |
Tries: Bateson |
Teams
| Huddersfield[5] | No. | Wakefield Trinity |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Syd Walmsley | 1 | R. Wood/Fred Wood |
| Arthur Walker | 2 | Ted Bateson |
| Edward Fisher | 3 | Billy Batten |
| Joe Oliver | 4 | Thomas "Tommy" Pickup |
| Joe Brook | 5 | Charlie Pollard |
| Harry Jones | 6 | Joe 'Sandy' Pearce |
| Eddie Williams | 7 | Jonty Parkin (c) |
| Arthur Sherwood | 8 | Thomas Coles |
| William Barlow | 9 | Robin "Bob" White |
| Richard Cracknell | 10 | W. Ralph Howell |
| Bryn Phillips | 11 | John William Higson |
| Henry Tiffany | 12 | Bill Horton |
| Douglas Clark | 13 | Charlie Glossop |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
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 | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
Notes
- The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford, since being newly elected to the league this season