1961–62 Yorkshire Cup

April 2022 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup Regional knockout championship Wakefield Trinity Winners Leeds 1960 Yorkshire Cup 1960–61 1962 Yorkshire Cup 1962–63 16 The 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 19–9 The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,329 and receipts were £2,864 This was Wakefield Trinity's second consecutive triumph and the club's fourth 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" 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 1962 http://www.huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk/Documents/Year_Books/1962%20Fartown%20Yearbook.pdfHC&AC Committee Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1962 (price 1/-) 1962 HC&AC Supporters' Club Round 1 Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Fri 1 Sep 1961Castleford37–8HalifaxWheldon Road 2Fri 1 Sep 1961Dewsbury0–15BatleyCrown Flatt3Sat 2 Sep 1961Featherstone Rovers31–6DoncasterPost Office Road4Sat 2 Sep 1961Hull F.C.9–8HuddersfieldBoulevard11,000HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results http://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/19615Sat 2 Sep 1961Keighley14–23HunsletLawkholme Lane6Sat 2 Sep 1961Leeds46–13Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley7Sat 2 Sep 1961Wakefield Trinity73–5Bradford NorthernBelle VueThis was both the record score and winning margin at the time. It also equalled Wakefield Trinity's record score (v Broughton Moor Amat in 1950) - Gerry Round kicked 11 goals to equal the club record 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 88Sat 2 Sep 1961York36–15BramleyClarence Street Round 2 - quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Wed 13 Sep 1961Leeds20–12CastlefordHeadingley2Tue 19 Sep 1961Featherstone Rovers21–11BatleyPost Office Road3Tue 19 Sep 1961Hull F.C.7–13Wakefield TrinityBoulevard4Wed 20 Sep 1961York31–9HunsletClarence Street Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Wed 4 Oct 1961Leeds11–3Featherstone RoversHeadingley2Wed 4 Oct 1961Wakefield Trinity24–4YorkBelle Vue Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRefSaturday 11 November 1961Wakefield Trinity19–9LeedsOdsal16,329£2,864The attendance is given as 16,429 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973" and 16,329 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91The receipts are quoted as £2,914 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973" but £2,864 in the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91Odsal 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 WarringtonRaymond 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 Wakefield Trinity№Leeds teams Gerry Round1Ken ThornettFred Smith2Garry HemingwayAlan Skene3Dennis GoodwinNeil Fox4Fred PickupColin Greenwood5Eddie RatcliffeHarold Poynton6Lewis JonesKeith Holliday7Colin EvansJack Wilkinson8Don RobinsonMilan Kosanović9Barry SimmsAlbert Firth10Trevor WhiteheadBrian Briggs11Jack FairbankDon Vines12John SykesDerek "Rocky" Turner (c)13Colin TomlinsonKen TraillCoachDai ProsserFootball ManagerJoe Warham19score95HT5 Scorers Tries Derek "Rocky" Turner (1)T Garry Hemingway (1)Alan Skene (1)TFred Smith (1)T Goals Neil Fox (5)GLewis Jones (3)G Drop Goals DGRefereeTom Watkinson (Manchester) Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points The road to success First round Second round Semifinals Final Hull F.C. 9 Huddersfield 8 Wakefield Trinity 73 Bradford Northern 5 York 36 Bramley 15 Keighley 14 Hunslet 23 Leeds 46 Hull Kingston Rovers 13 Castleford 37 Halifax 8 Featherstone Rovers 31 Doncaster 6 Dewsbury 0 Batley 15 Hull F.C. 7 Wakefield Trinity 13 York 31 Hunslet 9 Leeds 20 Castleford 12 Featherstone Rovers 21 Batley 11 Wakefield Trinity 24 York 4 Leeds 11 Featherstone Rovers 3 Wakefield Trinity 19 Leeds 9 See also 1961–62 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:1961 in English rugby league Category:RFL Yorkshire Cup