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1962–63 Yorkshire Cup

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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

1962–63 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersHunslet
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

Background

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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

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[1][2][3][4]

Round 1

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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 7 Sep 1962 Castleford 28-2 Batley Wheldon Road
2 Fri 7 Sep 1962 Hull F.C. 12-3 Huddersfield Boulevard 9,000 [5][4]
3 Sat 8 Sep 1962 Bradford Northern 5-11 Bramley Odsal
4 Sat 8 Sep 1962 Featherstone Rovers 25-10 Doncaster Post Office Road
5 Sat 8 Sep 1962 Halifax 22-7 Dewsbury Thrum Hall
6 Sat 8 Sep 1962 Hull Kingston Rovers 45-10 Keighley Craven Park (1)
7 Sat 8 Sep 1962 Hunslet 34-9 Wakefield Trinity Parkside [6]
8 Sat 8 Sep 1962 Leeds 12-12 York Headingley

Round 1 - replays

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Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
R Wed 12 Sep 1962 York 7-6 Leeds Clarence Street

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

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Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 17 Sep 1962 Featherstone Rovers 21-10 Bramley Post Office Road
2 Mon 17 Sep 1962 Hull Kingston Rovers 28-12 Castleford Craven Park (1)
3 Mon 17 Sep 1962 Hunslet 18-7 Hull F.C. Parkside [5]
4 Wed 19 Sep 1962 York 2-12 Halifax Clarence Street

Round 3 – Semi-finals

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 1 Oct 1962 Halifax 6-7 Hunslet Thrum Hall
2 Mon 1 Oct 1962 Hull Kingston Rovers 22-6 Featherstone Rovers Craven Park (1)

Final

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Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 27 October 1962 Hunslet 12-2 Hull Kingston Rovers Headingley 22,742 £4,514 1 [7][8]

Teams and scorers

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Hunslet № Hull Kingston Rovers
teams
William "Billy" Langton 1 Cyril Kellett
Barry Lee 2 Graham Paul
Geoff Shelton 3 Terry Major
Alan Preece 4 Mike Blackmore
Arthur Render 5 Robert Harris
Brian Gabbitas 6 Dave Elliott
Jeff Stevenson 7 Brian Hatch
Dennis Hartley 8 Ken Grice
Bernard Prior 9 Alan Lockwood
Ken Eyre 10 Jim Drake
William "Billy" Baldwinson 11 Brian Tyson
Cliff Lambert 12 John Taylor
Fred Ward 13 Harry Poole (c)
Fred Ward Coach Colin Hutton
12 score 2
5 HT 0
Scorers
Tries
Geoff Shelton (1) T
Billy Baldwinson (1) T
Goals
Billy Langton (2) G Cyril Kellett (1)
Dennis Hartley (1) G
Drop Goals
DG
Referee Ron Gelder (Wilmslow)

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

The road to success

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First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Leeds 12 (6)
York 12 (7)
York 2
Halifax 12
Halifax 22
Dewsbury 7
Halifax 6
Hunslet 7
Hunslet 34
Wakefield Trinity 9
Hunslet 18
Hull F.C. 7
Hull F.C. 12
Huddersfield 3
Hunslet 12
Hull Kingston Rovers 2
Hull Kingston Rovers 45
Keighley 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 28
Castleford 12
Castleford 28
Batley 2
Hull Kingston Rovers 22
Featherstone Rovers 6
Featherstone Rovers 25
Doncaster 10
Featherstone Rovers 21
Bramley 10
Bradford Northern 5
Bramley 11

Notes and comments

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. ^ HC&AC committee (1963). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1963 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  4. ^ a b "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1963" (PDF).
  5. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  8. ^ Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963–64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.
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