1959–60_Yorkshire_Cup
1959–60 Yorkshire Cup
Rugby league season
The 1959–60 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
| 1959–60 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Featherstone Rovers |
| Runners-up | Hull F.C. |
For the first time in fourteen years a new name appears on the Yorkshire Cup. Featherstone Rovers who previously won the trophy in the Spring 1940 Wartime competition can now lay claim to a genuine trophy (The wartime competitions were not counted officially in the records) Featherstone Rovers won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 15-14
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 23,983 and receipts were £4156
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.
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Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri 28 Aug 1959 | Leeds | 28-14 | Keighley | Headingley | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Bradford Northern | 10-23 | Hull F.C. | Odsal | [6] | |||||
| 3 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Bramley | 17-10 | York | Barley Mow | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Dewsbury | 27-14 | Castleford | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 24-9 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 6 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Halifax | 17-14 | Wakefield Trinity | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 7 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Huddersfield | 46-12 | Doncaster | Fartown | 3809 | [7] | ||||
| 8 | Sat 29 Aug 1959 | Hunslet | 46-8 | Batley | Parkside |
Round 2 - quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 7 Sep 1959 | Leeds | 15-10 | Hunslet | Headingley | ||||||
| 2 | Tue 8 Sep 1959 | Bramley | 14-17 | Hull F.C. | Barley Mow | [6] | |||||
| 3 | Wed 9 Sep 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 32-18 | Dewsbury | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 4 | Mon 14 Sep 1959 | Huddersfield | 9-16 | Halifax | Fartown | 11435 | [5] |
Round 3 – semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thu 24 Sep 1959 | Hull F.C. | 18-9 | Halifax | Boulevard | [6] | |||||
| 2 | Wed 30 Sep 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 14-7 | Leeds | Post Office Road |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 31 October 1959 | Featherstone Rovers | 15-14 | Hull F.C. | Headingley | 23,983 | £4,156 | 1 | [6][8][9][3] |
Teams and scorers
| Featherstone Rovers | No. | Hull F.C. |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Jack "Jackie" Fennell | 1 | Peter Bateson |
| Frank "Cheyenne" Smith | 2 | Stan Cowan |
| Ken Greatorex | 3 | Brian Cooper |
| Jim Hunt | 4 | Brian Saville |
| Cyril Woolford | 5 | Dennis Nicholson |
| Joe Mullaney (c) | 6 | George Matthews |
| Don Fox | 7 | Tommy Finn |
| Joe Anderson | 8 | Mick Scott |
| Willis Fawley | 9 | Tommy Harris |
| Malcolm Dixon | 10 | Jim Drake |
| Mick Clamp | 11 | Cyril Sykes |
| Cliff Lambert | 12 | Bill Drake |
| Terry Clawson | 13 | Johnny Whiteley |
| Harold Moxon | Coach | Roy Francis |
| 15 | score | 14 |
| 13 | HT | 7 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Don Fox (1) | T | Johnny Whiteley (1) |
| Cliff Lambert (1) | T | Brian Saville (1) |
| Cyril Woolford (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Terry Clawson (4) | G | Peter Bateson (4) |
| G | ||
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | Charlie Appleton (Warrington) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
1 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League 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)
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