1921–22 Yorkshire Cup

April 2022 1921–22 Yorkshire Cup Regional knockout championship Leeds Winners Dewsbury 1920–21 Yorkshire Cup 1920–21 1922–23 Yorkshire Cup 1922–23 14 The 1921–22 Yorkshire Cup was the fourteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year saw another new name on the trophy when Leeds won the cup by beating Dewsbury by the score of 11–3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £1,650. This was the first of Leeds' Yorkshire Cup successes, and they would go on to (eventually) triumph on a record seventeen occasions. Background The Rugby Football League's Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the 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). Competition and results This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers" but Featherstone Rovers joined for the first time as a league team, after being newly admitted to the league during the close-season. This resulted in one additional entrant, bringing the total up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in only two byes in the first round.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 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 15 Oct 1921Batley5–4HunsletMount Pleasant2Sat 15 Oct 1921Bradford Northern2–14BramleyBirch Lane3Sat 15 Oct 1921Dewsbury3–0HullCrown FlattHULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results http://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/19214Sat 15 Oct 1921Hull Kingston Rovers16–7KeighleyCraven Street (off Holderness Road)5Sat 15 Oct 1921Leeds11–2HuddersfieldHeadingley6Sat 15 Oct 1921York3–4Wakefield TrinityClarence Street7Halifaxbye8Featherstone Roversbye Round 2 – quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 29 Oct 1921Batley5–5BramleyMount Pleasant2Sat 29 Oct 1921Dewsbury15–2Wakefield TrinityCrown Flatt3Sat 29 Oct 1921Featherstone RoversFeatherstone Rovers played their first Yorkshire Cup match since being elected to the league, and at Post Office Road0–12Hull Kingston RoversPost Office Road4Sat 29 Oct 1921Leeds20–2HalifaxHeadingley Round 2 - replays Involved 1 match and 2 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRefRWed 2 Nov 1921Bramley6–0BatleyBarley Mow Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 12 Nov 1921Bramley4–11LeedsBarley Mow2Sat 12 Nov 1921Dewsbury8–3Hull Kingston RoversCrown Flatt Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecRefSaturday 26 November 1921Leeds11–3DewsburyThrum HallThrum Hall was the home ground of Halifax with a final capacity of 9,832 (The attendance record of 29,153 was set on 21 March 1959 for a third round Challenge Cup tie v Wigan). The club finally moved out in 1998 to take part ownership and ground-share with Halifax Town FC at The Shay Stadium.20000The attendance is given as 22,001 by RUGBY LEAGUE project but only 20,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-911650Raymond 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 Leeds№Dewsbury teams John Roberts1William SeddonSyd Walmsley2Percy BatesWilliam Avon Davies3Evan ReesJim Bacon4Eddie CatterallWilliam Hugh Davies5Joe LymanJoe Brittain6Albert JenkinsonArchie Brown7Ernest RodgersBernard Gould8Thomas CravenJohn Hardaker9Albert DixonBernard Gould10Frank GallagherRobert Boagey11George SharplesWilliam Pearson12Robert BirchBilly Ward13John Leake??Coach??11score38HT3 Scorers Tries Jim Bacon (2)T1Syd Walmsley (1)T Goals 1G Drop Goals DGRefereeunknown Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points Leeds Rhinos history http://www.therhinos.co.uk/club/history/becoming_a_force.php 2014-03-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20140221161346/http://www.therhinos.co.uk/club/history/becoming_a_force.php 2014-02-21 deadSaxton Irvin History of Rugby League: No.27 1921–1922 League Publications 11 The road to success First round Second round Semifinals Final Batley 5 Hunslet 4 Bradford Northern 2 Bramley 14 Leeds 11 Huddersfield 2 Halifax bye Dewsbury 3 Hull 0 York 3 Wakefield Trinity 4 Featherstone Rovers bye Hull Kingston Rovers 19 Keighley 7 Batley 5 (0) Bramley 5 (6) Leeds 20 Halifax 2 Dewsbury 15 Wakefield Trinity 2 Featherstone Rovers 0 Hull Kingston Rovers 12 Bramley 4 Leeds 11 Dewsbury 8 Hull Kingston Rovers 3 Leeds 11 Dewsbury 3 See also 1921–22 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