The 1959–60 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held.
For the first time in fourteen years a new name appeared on the Yorkshire Cup. Featherstone Rovers, who previously won the trophy in the spring 1940 wartime competition, could now lay claim to a genuine trophy; the wartime competitions were not counted officially in the records.
Featherstone Rovers won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by a score of 15–14.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 23,983 and receipts were £4156.
Background This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers", 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 Round 1 involved eight matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs.
Game no.Fixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Fri 28 Aug 1959Leeds28–14KeighleyHeadingley2Sat 29 Aug 1959Bradford Northern10–23Hull F.C.Odsal3Sat 29 Aug 1959Bramley17–10YorkBarley Mow4Sat 29 Aug 1959Dewsbury27–14CastlefordCrown Flatt5Sat 29 Aug 1959Featherstone Rovers24–9Hull Kingston RoversPost Office Road6Sat 29 Aug 1959Halifax17–14Wakefield TrinityThrum Hall7Sat 29 Aug 1959Huddersfield46–12DoncasterFartown38098Sat 29 Aug 1959Hunslet46–8BatleyParkside
Round 2 – quarterfinals Round 2's quarterfinals involved four matches and eight clubs.
Game no.Fixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Mon 7 Sep 1959Leeds15–10HunsletHeadingley2Tue 8 Sep 1959Bramley14–17Hull F.C.Barley Mow3Wed 9 Sep 1959Featherstone Rovers32–18DewsburyPost Office Road4Mon 14 Sep 1959Huddersfield9–16HalifaxFartown11435
Round 3 – semifinals Round 3's semifinals involved two matches and four clubs.
Game no.Fixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef1Thu 24 Sep 1959Hull F.C.18–9HalifaxBoulevard2Wed 30 Sep 1959Featherstone Rovers14–7LeedsPost Office Road
Final Game no.Fixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRefSaturday 31 October 1959Featherstone Rovers15–14Hull F.C.Headingley23,983£4,156
Teams and scorers Featherstone RoversNo.Hull F.C. Teams Jack "Jackie" Fennell1Peter BatesonFrank "Cheyenne" Smith2Stan CowanKen Greatorex3Brian CooperJim Hunt4Brian SavilleCyril Woolford5Dennis NicholsonJoe Mullaney (c)6George MatthewsDon Fox7Tommy FinnJoe Anderson8Mick ScottWillis Fawley9Tommy HarrisMalcolm Dixon10Jim DrakeMick Clamp11Cyril SykesCliff Lambert12Bill DrakeTerry Clawson13Johnny WhiteleyHarold MoxonCoachRoy Francis 15Score1413HT7 Scorers Tries Don Fox (1)TJohnny Whiteley (1)Cliff Lambert (1)TBrian Saville (1)Cyril Woolford (1)T Goals Terry Clawson (4)GPeter Bateson (4)G Drop goals DGRefereeCharlie Appleton (Warrington) Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
See also 1959–60 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