1938–39 Yorkshire Cup

April 2022 1938–39 Yorkshire Cup Regional knockout championship Huddersfield Winners Hull 1937–38 Yorkshire Cup 1937–38 1939–40 Yorkshire Cup 1939–40 15 The 1938–39 Yorkshire Cup, was the thirty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire County Cup competition was held. The previous year's defeated finalists returned for a second year, but this year they were triumphant, Huddersfield winning the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 18–10. The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 28,714 and receipts were £1,534. For the losers, Hull FC, it was to be their fifth defeat in six appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final. Background This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants but Newcastle folded and so there is one less entrant, reducing the total number to fifteen. This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round. Competition and results Rugby League Project http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/yorkshire-cup/results.html Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding John Player Yearbook 1975-76 1991 Queen Anne Press Round 1 Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 10 Sep 1938Bradford Northern7–20HunsletOdsal2Sat 10 Sep 1938Featherstone Rovers4–43LeedsPost Office Road3Sat 10 Sep 1938Halifax9–9BatleyThrum Hall4Sat 10 Sep 1938Huddersfield32–8DewsburyFartown5Sat 10 Sep 1938Hull17–10BramleyBoulevardHULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results http://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/19386Sat 10 Sep 1938Hull Kingston Rovers12–0CastlefordCraven Park (1)7Sat 10 Sep 1938York14–28KeighleyClarence Street8Wakefield Trinitybye Round 1 - replays Involved 1 match and 2 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRefRWed 14 Sep 1938Batley0–16HalifaxMount Pleasant Round 2 – quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Mon 19 Sep 1938Halifax8–14Wakefield TrinityThrum Hall2Mon 19 Sep 1938Hunslet23–7Hull Kingston RoversParkside3Tue 20 Sep 1938Hull8–0KeighleyBoulevard4Wed 21 Sep 1938Huddersfield8–6LeedsFartown Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Wed 5 Oct 1938Huddersfield6–2Wakefield TrinityFartown2Thu 6 Oct 1938Hull18–2HunsletBoulevard Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRefSaturday 22 October 1938Huddersfield18–10HullOdsal287141534Odsal 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.Raymond 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 HuddersfieldNo.Hull Teams William Taylor1Freddie MillerBill Johnson2Frank HurleyDennis Madden3Bob CornerAlex Fiddes4Sydney WilsonRay Markham5Eric OvertonStan Pepperell6Ernie HerbertTom Grahame7Tom JohnsonHerbert Sherwood8Laurie ThackerHarold Whitehead9George BarlowDavid Morgan Evans10Lawrence BarlowEmlyn Hughes11Charlie BoothJack Shaw12Jack DawsonRon Bailey13Harold Ellerington??Coach?? 18score1010HT2 Scorers Tries E. T. Markham (3)TDennis Madden (1)T Goals Alex Fiddes (2)GDennis Madden (1)GRefereeF. Fairhurst (Wigan) Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points Match Programme Yorkshire Cup Final 1938 http://www.huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk/Documents/Programmes/1938%20v%20Hull,%20YCF.pdf Yorks RL Assos Match programme Huddersfield v Hull 1938 Yorkshire Cup Final 1938 Yorkshire RL AssociationHuddersfield RL Heritage 1938–39 http://www.huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk/Documents/Club/Players'%20Records/Huddersfield%201938-39.pdf The road to success First round Second round Semifinals Final Huddersfield 32 Dewsbury 8 Featherstone Rovers 4 Leeds 43 Halifax 9 (16) Batley 9 (0) Wakefield Trinity bye Hull 17 Bramley 10 York 14 Keighley 28 Bradford Northern 7 Hunslet 20 Hull Kingston Rovers 12 Castleford 0 Huddersfield 8 Leeds 6 Halifax 8 Wakefield Trinity 14 Hull 8 Keighley 0 Hunslet 23 Hull Kingston Rovers 7 Huddersfield 6 Wakefield Trinity 2 Hull 18 Hunslet 2 Huddersfield 18 Hull 10 See also 1938–39 Northern Rugby Football League season Rugby league county cups Notes References External links Saints Heritage Society https://web.archive.org/web/20120302024842/http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9 2 March 2012 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:1938 in English rugby league Category:RFL Yorkshire Cup