1958–59 Yorkshire Cup

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1958–59 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
Winners Leeds
Runners-up Wakefield Trinity

The 1958 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-first occasion on which the competition had been held. Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 24-20.

Contents

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

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef
1Sat 30 Aug 1958 Batley 21-5 Featherstone Rovers Mount Pleasant
2Sat 30 Aug 1958 Bradford Northern 23-31 York Odsal
3Sat 30 Aug 1958 Bramley 16-34 Hull F.C. Barley Mow [7]
4Sat 30 Aug 1958 Castleford 5-33 Hull Kingston Rovers Wheldon Road
5Sat 30 Aug 1958 Dewsbury 12-29 Keighley Crown Flatt
6Sat 30 Aug 1958 Halifax 52-0 Doncaster Thrum Hall
7Sat 30 Aug 1958 Leeds 64-17 Huddersfield Headingley 15600 [5]
8Sat 30 Aug 1958 Wakefield Trinity 10-10 Hunslet Belle Vue

Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef
RWed 3 Sep 1958 Hunslet 11-15 Wakefield Trinity Parkside

Round 2 - quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef
1Tue 9 Sep 1958 Batley 23-7 Hull Kingston Rovers Mount Pleasant
2Tue 9 Sep 1958 Halifax 15-19 York Thrum Hall
3Tue 9 Sep 1958 Hull F.C. 16-17 Wakefield Trinity Boulevard [7] [3]
4Wed 10 Sep 1958 Leeds 17-15 Keighley Headingley

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef
1Wed 17 Sep 1958 York 10-13 Leeds Clarence Street
2Wed 1 Oct 1958 Wakefield Trinity 21-13 Batley Belle Vue

Final

The 1958 Yorkshire Cup final was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 26,927 and receipts were £3,833.

Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueAttRecNotesRef
Saturday 18 October 1958 Leeds 24-20 Wakefield Trinity Odsal 26,927£3,8331 2 [8] [9] [3]

Teams and scorers

Leeds № Wakefield Trinity
teams
Pat Quinn 1 Frank Mortimer
Garry Hemingway 2 Fred Smith
Jack Lendill (or Peter Lendill?)3 Donald "Don" Metcalfe
Lewis Jones 4 Neil Fox
Del Hodgkinson 5 Stan Smith
Gordon Brown 6 Keith Holliday
Jeff Stevenson 7 Ken Rollin
Skelton8 Wilfred "Wilf" Adams
Barry Simms 9S John "Joby" Shaw
Colin Tomlinson 10 Samuel "Sam" Evans
Don Robinson 11 Bob Kelly
Ward (Fred Ward?)12 Leslie "Les" Chamberlain
Dick13 Ken Traill
probably Joe Warham Coach Ken Traill
24score20
18HT7
Scorers
Tries
6TDonald "Don" Metcalfe (3)
Barry Simms (1)TKen Rollin (1)
T
T
Goals
3GFrank Mortimer (2)
GNeil Fox (2)
Drop Goals
DG
Refereeunknown

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

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The road to success

First round Second round Semifinals Final
            
Halifax 52
Doncaster 0
Halifax 15
York 19
Bradford Northern 23
York 31
York 10
Leeds 13
Leeds 64
Huddersfield 17
Leeds 17
Keighley 15
Dewsbury 12
Keighley 29
Leeds 24
Wakefield Trinity 20
Bramley 16
Hull F.C. 34
Hull F.C. 16
Wakefield Trinity 17
Wakefield Trinity 10 (15)
Hunslet 10 (11)
Wakefield Trinity 21
Batley 13
Batley 21
Featherstone Rovers 5
Batley 23
Hull Kingston Rovers 7
Castleford 5
Hull Kingston Rovers 33

See also

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This year was a new name on the trophy after Castleford's three year winning streak came to an end.
Wigan won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 7-4
The match was played at Central Park, Wigan,. The attendance was 13,479 and receipts were £3,291
This was to be Wigan's only success in the competition.

References

  1. ↑ "Rugby League Project".
  2. ↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. 1 2 3 David Jack (1958). Empire News Football Annual 1958–59 - 72nd year. Empire News and Sunday Chronicle.
  4. ↑ HC&AC committee (1959). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1959 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  5. 1 2 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1959" (PDF).
  6. 1 2 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.
  7. 1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  8. ↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN   0 35617852 8.
  9. ↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN   0 35617851 X.
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