1906–07 Yorkshire Cup

April 2022 1906 Yorkshire Cup Regional knockout championship Bradford Winners Hull Kingston Rovers 1905–06 Yorkshire Cup 1905–06 1907–08 Yorkshire Cup 1907–08 15 The 1906 Yorkshire Cup was the second in the Rugby Football League club tournament's history. It was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the English 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) 1906 was the second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year there were two new clubs to contest the final. Bradford won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 8–5 The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 10,500 and receipts were £286 Background Brighouse Rangers, Castleford (1896) and Normanton left the league and the three non league clubs from last season were not invited, but they were replaced by junior/amateur club New Blackpool. This resulted in an overall decrease of five clubs, leaving a total of fifteen entrants. This, in turn, resulted in one bye in the first round. Pontefract resigned after 8 league matches and their record was expunged, but by this time, they had played (and lost) in this competition. Competition and results Rugby League Project http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/yorkshire-cup/results.html Round 1 Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 Clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 13 Oct 1906Bradford68–2BramleyPark Avenue2Sat 13 Oct 1906Dewsbury10–27HuddersfieldCrown Flatt3Sat 13 Oct 1906Hull3–6HalifaxBoulevardHULL&PROUD – Stats – Fixtures & Results 1896/1897 http://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/19064Sat 13 Oct 1906Hull Kingston Rovers44–0PontefractCraven Street (off Holderness Road)5Sat 13 Oct 1906Keighley34–2New BlackpoolNew Blackpool is/was a junior/amateur club (possibly from the Leeds area)Lawkholme Lane6Sat 13 Oct 1906Wakefield Trinity7–19LeedsBelle Vue7Sat 13 Oct 1906York8–7BatleyClarence Street8Hunsletbye Round 2 – Quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 27 Oct 1906Bradford21–5LeedsPark Avenue2Sat 27 Oct 1906Halifax6–0HunsletThrum Hall3Sat 27 Oct 1906Hull Kingston Rovers11–3HuddersfieldCraven Street (off Holderness Road)4Sat 27 Oct 1906Keighley34–2YorkLawkholme Lane Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 17 Nov 1906Bradford6–4HalifaxPark Avenue2Sat 17 Nov 1906Hull Kingston Rovers21–0KeighleyCraven Street (off Holderness Road) Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecRefSaturday 1 December 1906Bradford8–5Hull Kingston RoversBelle VueBelle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield10500286Raymond Fletcher and David Howes Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992 1991 Queen Anne Press 0 35617852 8Raymond Fletcher and David Howes Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991 1990 Queen Anne Press 0 35617851 X Teams and scorers Bradford№Hull Kingston Rovers teams Gomer Gunn1Alf CarmichaelJames Dechan2George WestErvine Mosby3Billy PhippsF. Heseltine4Dan ReesJ. Connell5W. MadleyS. Brear6Jim BarryThomas Surman7A. LofthouseAlex Laidlaw8Jim GathN. Greenwood9H. W. SmithH. Francis10Arthur SpackmanAlf Mann11G. J. HambrechtHarry Feather12Sam SherwoodH. Walton13Andrew WindleCoach8score58HT3 Scorers Tries James Dechan (1)TGeorge West (1)S. Brear (1)T Goals Alex Laidlaw (1)GW. Madley (1)G Drop Goals DGRefereeWilliam McCutcheon (Oldham) Scoring – Try = four points – Goal = two points – Drop goal = one point Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 12 – 1906–07". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a The road to success First round Second round Semifinals Final Bradford 68 Bramley 2 Wakefield Trinity 7 Leeds 19 Keighley 34 New Blackpool 2 York 8 Batley 7 Hull Kingston Rovers 44 Pontefract 0 Dewsbury 10 Huddersfield 27 Hull 3 Halifax 6 Hunslet bye Bradford 21 Leeds 5 Keighley 34 York 2 Hull Kingston Rovers 11 Huddersfield 3 Halifax 6 Hunslet 0 Bradford 6 Keighley 4 Hull Kingston Rovers 21 Halifax 0 Bradford 8 Hull Kingston Rovers 5 See also 1906–07 Northern Rugby Football Union season Rugby league county cups Notes References External links Saints Heritage Society 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com https://web.archive.org/web/20140202123900/http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=319 2 February 2014 Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897 Widnes Vikings – One team, one passion Season In Review – 1896–97 The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org Category:RFL Yorkshire Cup Yorkshire Cup