The 1921–22 Yorkshire Cup was the fourteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year saw another new name on the trophy when Leeds won the cup by beating Dewsbury by the score of 11–3 in the final. The match was played at Thrum Hall, Halifax, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £1,650. This was the first of Leeds' Yorkshire Cup successes, and they would go on to (eventually) triumph on a record seventeen occasions.
Background
The Rugby Football League's 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).
Competition and results
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers" but Featherstone Rovers joined for the first time as a league team, after being newly admitted to the league during the close-season. This resulted in one additional entrant, bringing the total up to fourteen. This in turn resulted in only two byes in the first round.
Round 1 Involved 6 matches (with two byes) and 14 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 15 Oct 1921Batley5–4HunsletMount Pleasant2Sat 15 Oct 1921Bradford Northern2–14BramleyBirch Lane3Sat 15 Oct 1921Dewsbury3–0HullCrown Flatt4Sat 15 Oct 1921Hull Kingston Rovers16–7KeighleyCraven Street (off Holderness Road)5Sat 15 Oct 1921Leeds11–2HuddersfieldHeadingley6Sat 15 Oct 1921York3–4Wakefield TrinityClarence Street7Halifaxbye8Featherstone Roversbye
Round 2 – quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 29 Oct 1921Batley5–5BramleyMount Pleasant2Sat 29 Oct 1921Dewsbury15–2Wakefield TrinityCrown Flatt3Sat 29 Oct 1921Featherstone Rovers0–12Hull Kingston RoversPost Office Road4Sat 29 Oct 1921Leeds20–2HalifaxHeadingley
Round 2 - replays Involved 1 match and 2 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRefRWed 2 Nov 1921Bramley6–0BatleyBarley Mow
Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 12 Nov 1921Bramley4–11LeedsBarley Mow2Sat 12 Nov 1921Dewsbury8–3Hull Kingston RoversCrown Flatt
Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecRefSaturday 26 November 1921Leeds11–3DewsburyThrum Hall200001650
Teams and scorers Leeds№Dewsbury teams John Roberts1William SeddonSyd Walmsley2Percy BatesWilliam Avon Davies3Evan ReesJim Bacon4Eddie CatterallWilliam Hugh Davies5Joe LymanJoe Brittain6Albert JenkinsonArchie Brown7Ernest RodgersBernard Gould8Thomas CravenJohn Hardaker9Albert DixonBernard Gould10Frank GallagherRobert Boagey11George SharplesWilliam Pearson12Robert BirchBilly Ward13John Leake??Coach??11score38HT3 Scorers Tries Jim Bacon (2)T1Syd Walmsley (1)T Goals 1G Drop Goals DGRefereeunknown Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
See also 1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season Rugby league county cups
Notes
References
External links Saints Heritage Society 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897 Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97 The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org