1961–62 Yorkshire Cup


The 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 19-9
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,329 and receipts were £2,864
This was Wakefield Trinity's second consecutive triumph and the club's fourth appearance out of five in a period of nine years

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 1 Sep 1961Castleford37-8HalifaxWheldon Road
2Fri 1 Sep 1961Dewsbury0-15BatleyCrown Flatt
3Sat 2 Sep 1961Featherstone Rovers31-6DoncasterPost Office Road
4Sat 2 Sep 1961Hull F.C.9-8HuddersfieldBoulevard11,000
5Sat 2 Sep 1961Keighley14-23HunsletLawkholme Lane
6Sat 2 Sep 1961Leeds46-13Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley
7Sat 2 Sep 1961Wakefield Trinity73-5Bradford NorthernBelle Vue1
8Sat 2 Sep 1961York36-15BramleyClarence Street

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueAttRecNotesRef
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1Wed 13 Sep 1961Leeds20-12CastlefordHeadingley
2Tue 19 Sep 1961Featherstone Rovers21-11BatleyPost Office Road
3Tue 19 Sep 1961Hull F.C.7-13Wakefield TrinityBoulevard
4Wed 20 Sep 1961York31-9HunsletClarence Street

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Game NoFixture DateHome TeamScoreAway TeamVenueAttRecNotesRef
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1Wed 4 Oct 1961Leeds11-3Featherstone RoversHeadingley
2Wed 4 Oct 1961Wakefield Trinity24-4YorkBelle Vue

Final

Teams and scorers

Wakefield Trinity№Leeds
teams
Gerry Round1Ken Thornett
Fred Smith2Garry Hemingway
Alan Skene3Dennis Goodwin
Neil Fox4Fred Pickup
Colin Greenwood5Eddie Ratcliffe
Harold Poynton6Lewis Jones
Keith Holliday7Colin Evans
Jack Wilkinson8Don Robinson
Milan Kosanović9Barry Simms
Albert Firth10Trevor Whitehead
Brian Briggs11Jack Fairbank
Don Vines12John Sykes
Derek "Rocky" Turner 13Colin Tomlinson
Ken TraillCoachDai Prosser
Football ManagerJoe Warham-
19score9
5HT5
Scorers
Tries
Derek "Rocky" Turner TGarry Hemingway
Alan Skene T
Fred Smith T
Goals
Neil Fox GLewis Jones
G-
Drop Goals
DG-
RefereeTom Watkinson

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