1949–50 Yorkshire Cup


1949–50 was the forty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Huddersfield by the score of 11-4.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 36,000, a record never to be beaten, and receipts were £6,365.
This was the second of two successive wins for Bradford Northern

Background

This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.

Competition and Results

Round 1 - First Leg

Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueaggAttRecNotesRef
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1Sat 10 Sep 1949Huddersfield13-5LeedsFartown
2Sat 10 Sep 1949Hunslet7-10DewsburyParkside
3Sat 10 Sep 1949Batley10-7HalifaxMount Pleasant
4Sat 10 Sep 1949Castleford12-8HullWheldon Road
5Sat 10 Sep 1949York11-28Bradford NorthernClarence Street
6Sat 10 Sep 1949Hull Kingston Rovers6-3BramleyCraven Park
7Sat 10 Sep 1949Wakefield Trinity19-12Featherstone RoversBelle Vue
8Sat 10 Sep 1949Keighley45-2Yorkshire AmateursLawkholme Lane1

Round 1 - Second Leg

Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueaggAttRecNotesRef
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1Mon 12 Sep 1949Leeds8-16HuddersfieldHeadingley13-29
2Tue 13 Sep 1949Dewsbury19-0HunsletCrown Flatt29-7
3Tue 13 Sep 1949Halifax2-7BatleyThrum Hall9-17
4Tue 13 Sep 1949Hull13-13CastlefordBoulevard21-252
5Wed 14 Sep 1949Bradford Northern25-11YorkOdsal53-22
6Wed 14 Sep 1949Bramley13-4Hull Kingston RoversBarley Mow16-10
7Wed 14 Sep 1949Featherstone Rovers2-12Wakefield TrinityPost Office Road14-31
8Thu 15 Sep 1949Yorkshire Amateurs8-15KeighleyMount Pleasant10-601

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueaggAttRecNotesRef
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1Wed 21 Sep 1949Bradford Northern13-6CastlefordOdsal
2Wed 21 Sep 1949Bramley5-4KeighleyBarley Mow
3Wed 28 Sep 1949Huddersfield20-12Wakefield TrinityFartown21737
4Thu 29 Sep 1949Dewsbury12-5BatleyCrown Flatt

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueaggAttRecNotesRef
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1Wed 12 Oct 1949Bramley6-8Bradford NorthernBarley Mow
2Wed 19 Oct 1949Dewsbury2-7HuddersfieldCrown Flatt

Final

Teams and Scorers

Bradford NorthernNo.Huddersfield
teams
Billy Leake1Swallow
Eric Batten2Wilson
Jack Kitching3Jeff Bawden
Ernest Ward4Pat Devery
Emlyn Walters5Lionel Cooper
Willie Davies6Russell Pepperell
Donald Ward7Billy Banks
Eric Day8Malden
Victor "Vic" Darlison9Pritchard ?
Greaves10John "Jack" Daly
Trevor Foster11Ike Owens
Tyler12Bob Nicholson
Ken Traill13Dave Valentine
Dai ReesCoach??
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11score4
4HT2
Scorers
Tries
Willie Davies T
Goals
Ernest Ward GJeff Bawden
RefereeMr. W. Hemmings

Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = two points

The road to success

All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg basis.
For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.

General information for those unfamiliar

The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between 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 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 December