1962–63 Yorkshire Cup


The 1962–63 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Hunslet won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 12-2.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,742 and receipts were £4,514
It is the last time for twenty-two years that the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would again exceed 20,000

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

Round 1

Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueAttRecNotesRef
1Fri 7 Sep 1962Castleford28-2BatleyWheldon Road
2Fri 7 Sep 1962Hull F.C.12-3HuddersfieldBoulevard9,000
3Sat 8 Sep 1962Bradford Northern5-11BramleyOdsal
4Sat 8 Sep 1962Featherstone Rovers25-10DoncasterPost Office Road
5Sat 8 Sep 1962Halifax22-7DewsburyThrum Hall
6Sat 8 Sep 1962Hull Kingston Rovers45-10KeighleyCraven Park
7Sat 8 Sep 1962Hunslet34-9Wakefield TrinityParkside
8Sat 8 Sep 1962Leeds12-12YorkHeadingley

Round 1 - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueAttRecNotesRef
RWed 12 Sep 1962York7-6LeedsClarence Street

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueAttRecNotesRef
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1Mon 17 Sep 1962Featherstone Rovers21-10BramleyPost Office Road
2Mon 17 Sep 1962Hull Kingston Rovers28-12CastlefordCraven Park
3Mon 17 Sep 1962Hunslet18-7Hull F.C.Parkside
4Wed 19 Sep 1962York2-12HalifaxClarence Street

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueAttRecNotesRef
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1Mon 1 Oct 1962Halifax6-7HunsletThrum Hall
2Mon 1 Oct 1962Hull Kingston Rovers22-6Featherstone RoversCraven Park

Final

Teams and Scorers

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

The road to success

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