1958–59 Yorkshire Cup
Rugby league season
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The 1958 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 24–20.
| 1958–59 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Leeds |
| Runners-up | Wakefield Trinity |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Batley | 21–5 | Featherstone Rovers | Mount Pleasant | ||||
| 2 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Bradford Northern | 23–31 | York | Odsal | ||||
| 3 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Bramley | 16–34 | Hull F.C. | Barley Mow | [7] | |||
| 4 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Castleford | 5–33 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Wheldon Road | ||||
| 5 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Dewsbury | 12–29 | Keighley | Crown Flatt | ||||
| 6 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Halifax | 52–0 | Doncaster | Thrum Hall | ||||
| 7 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Leeds | 64–17 | Huddersfield | Headingley | 15600 | [5] | ||
| 8 | Sat 30 Aug 1958 | Wakefield Trinity | 10–10 | Hunslet | Belle Vue |
Round 1 - replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Wed 3 Sep 1958 | Hunslet | 11–15 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside |
Round 2 - quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 9 Sep 1958 | Batley | 23–7 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Mount Pleasant | ||||
| 2 | Tue 9 Sep 1958 | Halifax | 15–19 | York | Thrum Hall | ||||
| 3 | Tue 9 Sep 1958 | Hull F.C. | 16–17 | Wakefield Trinity | Boulevard | [7][3] | |||
| 4 | Wed 10 Sep 1958 | Leeds | 17–15 | Keighley | Headingley |
Round 3 – semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 17 Sep 1958 | York | 10–13 | Leeds | Clarence Street | ||||
| 2 | Wed 1 Oct 1958 | Wakefield Trinity | 21–13 | Batley | Belle Vue |
Final
The 1958 Yorkshire Cup final was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 26,927 and receipts were £3,833.
Teams and scorers
| Leeds | No. | Wakefield Trinity |
|---|---|---|
| Teams | ||
| Pat Quinn | 1 | Frank Mortimer |
| Garry Hemingway | 2 | Fred Smith |
| Jack Lendill | 3 | Donald "Don" Metcalfe |
| Lewis Jones | 4 | Neil Fox |
| Del Hodgkinson | 5 | Stan Smith |
| Gordon Brown | 6 | Keith Holliday |
| Jeff Stevenson | 7 | Ken Rollin |
| Tony Skelton | 8 | Wilfred "Wilf" Adams |
| Barry Simms | 9 | Joby Shaw |
| Don Robinson | 10 | Samuel "Sam" Evans |
| Fred Ward | 11 | Bob Kelly |
| Colin Tomlinson | 12 | Les Chamberlain |
| Alec Dick | 13 | Ken Traill |
| probably Joe Warham | Coach | Ken Traill |
| 24 | score | 20 |
| 18 | HT | 7 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| 6 | T | Donald "Don" Metcalfe (3) |
| Barry Simms (1) | T | Ken Rollin (1) |
| T | ||
| T | ||
| Goals | ||
| 3 | G | Frank Mortimer (2) |
| G | Neil Fox (2) | |
| 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 | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 64 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 10 (15) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 10 (11) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 33 | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
Notes
- Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington