1960–61 Yorkshire Cup
Rugby league season
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The 1960–61 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held.
| 1960–61 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Wakefield Trinity |
| Runners-up | Huddersfield |
Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Huddersfield by a score of 16–10 in the final played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance for this match was 17,456, and receipts were £2,937. This was Wakefield Trinity's first of two consecutive triumphs and the club's third appearance out of five in a period of nine years (which included four as cup winners and one as runner-up).
Background
This season, there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers". Therefore, 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 | Fri 26 Aug 1960 | Bramley | 10–7 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Barley Mow | ||||
| 2 | Fri 26 Aug 1960 | Dewsbury | 14–2 | York | Crown Flatt | ||||
| 3 | Sat 27 Aug 1960 | Batley | 2–20 | Huddersfield | Mount Pleasant | 2,000 | [5] | ||
| 4 | Sat 27 Aug 1960 | Bradford Northern | 7–25 | Castleford | Odsal | ||||
| 5 | Sat 27 Aug 1960 | Featherstone Rovers | 36–10 | Doncaster | Post Office Road | ||||
| 6 | Sat 27 Aug 1960 | Keighley | 18–15 | Hull F.C. | Lawkholme Lane | [6] | |||
| 7 | Sat 27 Aug 1960 | Leeds | 16–0 | Hunslet | Headingley | ||||
| 8 | Sat 27 Aug 1960 | Wakefield Trinity | 3–0 | Halifax | Belle Vue |
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 6 Sep 1960 | Dewsbury | 13–13 | Leeds | Crown Flatt | ||||
| 2 | Tue 6 Sep 1960 | Keighley | 5–3 | Featherstone Rovers | Lawkholme Lane | ||||
| 3 | Wed 7 Sep 1960 | Huddersfield | 15–3 | Castleford | Fartown | 3,656 | [5] | ||
| 4 | Wed 7 Sep 1960 | Wakefield Trinity | 40–6 | Bramley | Belle Vue | [7] |
Round 2 - replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs.
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Mon 12 Sep 1960 | Leeds | 22–16 | Dewsbury | 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 | Fri 7 Oct 1960 | Leeds | 9–12 | Huddersfield | Headingley | 7,478 | [5] | ||
| 2 | Wed 12 Oct 1960 | Keighley | 4–5 | Wakefield Trinity | Odsal | [a] | [7] |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 29 October 1960 | Wakefield Trinity | 16–10 | Huddersfield | Headingley | 17,456 | £2,937 | [b][c][d][e] | [3][5][7][9][8] |
Teams and scorers
| Wakefield Trinity | № | Huddersfield |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Donald Metcalfe | 1 | Frank Dyson |
| Fred Smith | 2 | Aidan Brown |
| Alan Skene | 3 | Brian Curry |
| Neil Fox | 4 | Ernie Ashcroft (c) |
| John Etty | 5 | Aidan Breen |
| Harold Poynton | 6 | Don Lockwood |
| Ken Rollin | 7 | Thomas Smales |
| Jack Wilkinson | 8 | Ted Slevin |
| Geoff Oakes | 9 | Don Close |
| Leslie "Les" Chamberlain | 10 | Ken Noble |
| Brian Briggs | 11 | Don Devereux |
| Albert Firth | 12 | Ken Bowman |
| Derek "Rocky" Turner (c) | 13 | Dave Valentine |
| Ken Traill | Coach | Ernie Ashcroft |
| 16 | score | 10 |
| 10 | HT | 3 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Neil Fox (2) | T | Aidan Breen (1) |
| John Etty (1) | T | Don Lockwood (1) |
| Fred Smith (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Neil Fox (2) | G | Frank Dyson (2) |
| Referee | Norman T. Railton (Wigan) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 13 (16) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 13 (22) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
Notes
- Keighley opted to play the match at Odsal in the hope of a possibly larger attendance and gate receipts
- This was Huddersfield's 20th appearance, Wakefield's 14th - in a Yorkshire Cup final
- 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.