The 1925–26 Yorkshire Cup was the eighteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held.. This year again saw a new name added to the list of cup winners. This time it was Dewsbury winning the trophy by beating Huddersfield in the final 2–0. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,616 and receipts were £718. This was the last time for another fourteen years that a new name would be added.
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 was only one junior/amateur club taking part, Castleford, at the time still a junior club, but which would be joining the league in the next closed season. This resulted in a reduction in entrants of just one, giving a total of fifteen entrants. This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.
Round 1 Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 15 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 10 Oct 1925Batley4–6Wakefield TrinityMount Pleasant2Sat 10 Oct 1925Bradford Northern9–9CastlefordBirch Lane3Sat 10 Oct 1925Dewsbury22–7BramleyCrown Flatt4Sat 10 Oct 1925Halifax0–2LeedsThrum Hall5Sat 10 Oct 1925Hull16–3HunsletBoulevard6Sat 10 Oct 1925Hull Kingston Rovers10–14YorkCraven Park (1)7Sat 10 Oct 1925Keighley4–18Featherstone RoversLawkholme Lane8 Huddersfieldbye
Round 1 - replays Involved 1 match and 2 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRefRWed 14 Oct 1925Castleford5–11Bradford NorthernSandy Desert
Round 2 – quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Tue 20 Oct 1925Dewsbury13–3HullCrown Flatt2Wed 21 Oct 1925Bradford Northern15–5YorkBirch Lane3Wed 21 Oct 1925Huddersfield16–11LeedsFartown4Wed 21 Oct 1925Wakefield Trinity2–23Featherstone RoversBelle Vue
Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Wed 4 Nov 1925Huddersfield15–9Featherstone RoversFartown2Wed 11 Nov 1925Dewsbury13–5Bradford NorthernCrown Flatt
Final Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecRefSaturday 28 November 1925Dewsbury2–0HuddersfieldBelle Vue12,616£718
Teams and scorers DewsburyNo.Huddersfield Teams John William Stocks1Syd WalmsleyHarold Raywood2Arthur WalkerRhys Rees3Joe OliverJoe Lyman4Joseph McTigheJames Lyman5Fred WhiteleyEdward McLoughlin6Eddie WilliamsCliff Midgley7James MayPercy Brown8Arthur SherwoodWilliam Rhodes9Arthur NewtonJoseph Hobson10Thomas FenwickJohn Ryan11Douglas ClarkJohn Moore12Richard CracknellEdward Donnelly13Tommy Schofield??Coach??2score02HT0 Scorers Goals G Drop Goals DGRefereeunknown Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
See also 1925–26 Northern Rugby Football League 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