The 1963–64 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
| 1963–64 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Halifax |
| Runners-up | Featherstone Rovers |
Halifax won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 10-0
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,238 and receipts were £2,471.
Background edit
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 edit
Round 1 edit
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Batley | 6-13 | Dewsbury | Mount Pleasant | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Bradford Northern | 10-24 | Featherstone Rovers | Odsal | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Doncaster | 3-2 | York | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Halifax | 29-5 | Keighley | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Huddersfield | 25-9 | Hull F.C. | Fartown | 5,906 | [6][5] | ||||
| 6 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 17-11 | Bramley | Craven Park (1) | ||||||
| 7 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Hunslet | 4-9 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside | [7] | |||||
| 8 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Leeds | 20-3 | Castleford | Headingley |
Round 2 - Quarter-finals edit
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 17 Sep 1963 | Dewsbury | 17-13 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 2 | Tue 17 Sep 1963 | Featherstone Rovers | 22-12 | Leeds | Post Office Road | ||||||
| 3 | Mon 23 Sep 1963 | Huddersfield | 27-0 | Doncaster | Fartown | 3,923 | [5] | ||||
| 4 | Mon 23 Sep 1963 | Wakefield Trinity | 4-12 | Halifax | Belle Vue | [7] |
Round 3 – Semi-finals edit
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 1 Oct 1963 | Dewsbury | 9-10 | Halifax | Crown Flatt | ||||||
| 2 | Wed 9 Oct 1963 | Featherstone Rovers | 22-9 | Huddersfield | Post Office Road | 7,200 | [5] |
Final edit
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 2 November 1963 | Halifax | 10-0 | Featherstone Rovers | Belle Vue | 13,238 | £2,471 | 1 | [8][9][3] |
Teams and scorers edit
| Halifax | № | Featherstone Rovers |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Ronald James | 1 | Jack "Jackie" Fennell |
| Duncan Jackson | 2 | Kenneth "Ken" Greatorex |
| John Burnett | 3 | Jim Hunt |
| Colin Dixon | 4 | Anthony "Tony" Lynch |
| Johnny Freeman | 5 | Gary Jordan |
| Barry Robinson | 6 | Ivor Lingard |
| Alan Marchant | 7 | Don Fox |
| Frank Fox | 8 | Abe Terry |
| John 'Joby' Shaw | 9 | Willis Fawley |
| Jack Scroby | 10 | Malcolm Dixon |
| Wyn Philips | 11 | Terry Ramshaw |
| Terry Fogerty | 12 | Harry Brown |
| Charlie Renilson | 13 | Colin Clifft |
| ?? | Coach | John Malpass |
| 10 | score | 0 |
| 2 | HT | 0 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| John Jackson (1) | T | |
| Charlie Renilson (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Ronald James (2) | G | |
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | Dennis Davies (Manchester) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success edit
| First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments edit
1 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield
General information for those unfamiliar edit
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)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Rugby League Project".
- ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- ^ a b Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.
- ^ HC&AC committee (1964). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1964 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- ^ a b c d "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1964" (PDF).
- ^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ^ a b J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.