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1948–49 Yorkshire Cup

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1948–49 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersBradford Northern
Runners-upCastleford

1948–49 was the forty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 18-9

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 31,393 and receipts were £5,053

The first of two successive wins for Bradford Northern

Background

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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

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Round 1 – first leg

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Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Castleford 37-7 Bramley Wheldon Road
2 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Dewsbury 5-3 Bradford Northern Crown Flatt
3 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Huddersfield 79-5 Yorkshire Amateurs Fartown 1
4 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Hull 22-7 Batley Boulevard [3]
5 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Keighley 7-8 Hunslet Lawkholme Lane
6 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Leeds 10-10 Halifax Headingley
7 Sat 11 Sep 1948 Wakefield Trinity 20-5 Hull Kingston Rovers Belle Vue
8 Sat 11 Sep 1948 York 12-14 Featherstone Rovers Clarence Street

Round 1 – second leg

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Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 15 Sep 1948 Bramley 9-12 Castleford Barley Mow 16-49
2 Wed 15 Sep 1948 Bradford Northern 20-5 Dewsbury Odsal 23-10
3 Thu 16 Sep 1948 Yorkshire Amateurs 0-61 Huddersfield Crown Flatt 5-140 1
4 Tue 14 Sep 1948 Batley 5-12 Hull Mount Pleasant 12-34 [3]
5 Wed 15 Sep 1948 Hunslet 9-5 Keighley Parkside 17-12
6 Tue 14 Sep 1948 Halifax 5-11 Leeds Thrum Hall 15-21
7 Wed 15 Sep 1948 Hull Kingston Rovers 14-4 Wakefield Trinity Craven Park (1) 19-24
8 Wed 15 Sep 1948 Featherstone Rovers 17-9 York Post Office Road 31-21

Round 2 - quarterfinals

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Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Mon 20 Sep 1948 Bradford Northern 19-12 Huddersfield Odsal
2 Mon 27 Sep 1948 Featherstone Rovers 5-19 Wakefield Trinity Post Office Road
3 Tue 28 Sep 1948 Castleford 11-0 Hull Wheldon Road [3]
4 Thu 30 Sep 1948 Leeds 7-10 Hunslet Headingley

Round 3 – semifinals

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 13 Oct 1948 Bradford Northern 7-7 Hunslet Odsal
2 Wed 13 Oct 1948 Castleford 6-5 Wakefield Trinity Wheldon Road [4]

Round 3 – semifinals - Replay

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
R Mon 18 Oct 1948 Hunslet 5-12 Bradford Northern Parkside

Final

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Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue agg Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 30 October 1948 Bradford Northern 18-9 Castleford Headingley 31,393 £5,053 2 [5][6]

Teams and scorers

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Bradford Northern Castleford
teams
George Carmichael 1 Ronald Lewis
Eric Batten 2 Arthur Bastow
William "Bill" Leake 3 Leonard "Len" Skidmore
Ernest Ward (c) 4 Norman Guest
Alan Edwards 5 Reg Lloyd
Willie Davies 6 Arthur Fisher
Donald 7 George Langfield
Frank Whitcombe 8 Dyl Harris
Vic Darlison 9 Jimmy Jones
Ronald "Ron" Greaves 10 James Crossley
Trevor Foster 11 Desmond "Des" Foreman
Barry Tyler 12 Charles Staines
Ken Traill 13 Frank Mugglestone
Dai Rees Coach ??
18 score 9
2 HT 4
Scorers
Tries
Allen Edwards (2) T Des Foreman (1)
Leake (1) T
Foster (1) T
Goals
Allen Edwards (3) G Des Foreman (1)
G Charlie Staines (1)
Drop Goals
DG George Langfield (1)
Referee G.S.Phillips(Widnes)

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

The road to success

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All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) 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.

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Dewsbury 10
Bradford Northern 23
Bradford Northern 19
Huddersfield 12
Huddersfield 140
Batley 5
Bradford Northern 7 (5)
Hunslet 7 (12)
Leeds 21
Halifax 15
Leeds 7
Hunslet 10
Keighley 12
Hunslet 17
Bradford Northern 18
Castleford 9
Castleford 49
Bramley 16
Castleford 11
Hull 0
Hull 34
Batley 12
Castleford 6
Wakefield Trinity 5
York 21
Featherstone Rovers 31
Featherstone Rovers 6
Wakefield Trinity 19
Wakefield Trinity 24
Hull Kingston Rovers 19

Notes and comments

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1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this match was played at Parkside, the ground of Hunslet

2 * 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. ^ a b c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  6. ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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