1964–65 Yorkshire Cup

April 2022 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup Regional knockout championship Wakefield Trinity Winners Leeds 1963 Yorkshire Cup 1963–64 1965 Yorkshire Cup 1965–66 16 The 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 18–2. The match was played at Fartown, Fartown Ground, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,527 and receipts were £2,707. This was Wakefield Trinity's fifth Yorkshire Cup final appearance 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" 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 Rugby League Project http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/competitions/yorkshire-cup/results.html Jack Winstanley and Malcolm Ryding John Player Yearbook 1975-76 1991 Queen Anne PressFartown Rugby League Yearbook 1965 http://www.huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk/Documents/Year_Books/1965%20Fartown%20Yearbook.pdfHC&AC Committee Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1965 (price 1/-) 1965 HC&AC Supporters' Club Round 1 Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Fri 4 Sep 1964Keighley22–3DoncasterLawkholme Lane2Fri 4 Sep 1964Leeds25–8HunsletHeadingley3Sat 5 Sep 1964Bradford Northern6–17HuddersfieldOdsal11,1404Sat 5 Sep 1964Bramley2–7Featherstone RoversBarley Mow5Sat 5 Sep 1964Castleford8–16Hull Kingston RoversWheldon Road 6Sat 5 Sep 1964Dwesbury10–11Wakefield TrinityCrown Flatt J. C. Lindley and D. W. Armitage 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973 1973 Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee 0 35617852 87Sat 5 Sep 1964Halifax32–14YorkThrum Hall8Sat 5 Sep 1964Hull F.C.35–9BatleyBoulevardHULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results https://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/1964 Round 2 - Quarter-finals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Mon 14 Sep 1964Halifax16–3Hull F.C.Thrum Hall2Wed 16 Sep 1964Featherstone Rovers5–15Wakefield TrinityPost Office Road3Wed 16 Sep 1964Huddersfield6–5Hull Kingston RoversFartown4,4474Thu 17 Sep 1964Leeds38–14KeighleyHeadingley Round 3 – Semi-finals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Wed 30 Sep 1964Huddersfield0–7Wakefield TrinityFartown9,3712Mon 5 Oct 1964Halifax7–20LeedsThrum Hall Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRefSaturday 31 October 1964Wakefield Trinity18–2LeedsFartown13,527£2,707The attendance is given as 13,754 by the official Huddersfield 1965 Yearbook but given as 13,527 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91Belle 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 HuddersfieldRaymond 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 XFrank Butler and Malcolm Gunn News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year 1977 News of the World Ltd Teams and scorers Wakefield Trinity№Leeds teams Donald "Don" Metcalfe1Robin DewhurstBerwyn Jones2Ronnie CowanTony Thomas3Andrew BroatchNeil Fox4Dick GemmellGert "Oupa" Coetzer5Geoff WriglesworthHarold Poynton6Mick ShoebottomRay Owen7Barry SeabourneEdward "Ted" Campbell8Bill DrakeGeorge Shepherd9Alan LockwoodDon Vines10Leslie ChamberlainBob Haigh11Mick ClarkDerek Plumstead12Louis NeumannKeith Holliday13John SykesKen TraillCoach Roy Francis 18score27HT2 Scorers Tries Neil Fox (2)TBerwyn Jones (2)T GoalsNeil Fox (3)GRobin Dewhurst (1)RefereeDennis Davies (Manchester) Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points The road to success First round Second round Semi-finals Final Bradford Bramley Wakefield Trinity Leeds Keighley New Blackpool York Batley Hull Kingston Rovers Pontefract Dewsbury Huddersfield Hull Halifax Hunslet bye Bradford Leeds Keighley York Hull Kingston Rovers Huddersfield Halifax Hunslet Bradford Keighley Hull Kingston Rovers Halifax Bradford 8 Hull Kingston Rovers 5 See also 1964–65 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 Category:1964 in English rugby league Category:RFL Yorkshire Cup