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1963-64 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersHalifax
Runners-upFeatherstone Rovers


The 1963 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Halifax won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 10-0
The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 13,238 and receipts were £2,471.

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]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Batley 6-13 Dewsbury Mount Pleasant
2 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Bradford Northern 10-24 Featherstone Rovers Odsal
3 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Doncaster 3-2 York Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
4 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Halifax 29-5 Keighley Thrum Hall
5 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Huddersfield 25-9 Hull F.C. Fartown 5,906 [6][5]
6 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Hull KR 17-11 Bramley Craven Park (1)
7 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Hunslet 4-9 Wakefield Trinity Parkside [7]
8 Sat 7 Sep 1963 Leeds 20-3 Castleford Headingley

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Tue 17 Sep 1963 Dewsbury 17-13 Hull KR Crown Flatt
2 Tue 17 Sep 1963 Featherstone Rovers 22-12 Leeds Post Office Road
3 Mon 23 Sep 1963 Huddersfield 27-0 Doncaster Fartown 3,923 [5]
4 Mon 23 Sep 1963 Wakefield Trinity 4-12 Halifax Belle Vue [7]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Tue 1 Oct 1963 Dewsbury 9-10 Halifax Crown Flatt
2 Wed 9 Oct 1963 Featherstone Rovers 22-9 Huddersfield Post Office Road 7,200 [5]

Final


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 2 November 1963 Halifax 10-0 Featherstone Rovers Belle Vue 13,238 £2,471 1 [8][9][3]

Teams and Scorers

Halifax № Featherstone Rovers
teams
Ronald James 1 Jackie Fennell
Duncan Jackson 2 Kenneth "Ken" Greatorex
John Burnett 3 Jim Hunt
Colin Dixon 4 Anthony "Tony" Lynch
Johnny Freeman 5 Gary Jordan
Barry Robinson 6 Ivor Lingard
Alan Marchant 7 Don Fox
Frank Fox 8 Abe Terry
John 'Joby' Shaw 9 Willis Fawley
Jack Scroby 10 Malcolm Dixon
W. Philips 11 Terry Ramshaw
Terry Fogerty 12 xH. Brown
Charlie Renilson 13 Colin Clifft
?? Coach Harold Moxon
10 score 0
2 HT 0
Scorers
Tries
John Jackson (1) T
Charlie Renilson (1) T
Goals
Ronald James (2) G
Drop Goals
DG
Referee Dennis Davies (Manchester)

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

The road to success

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Batley 6
Dewsbury 13
Dewsbury 17
Hull KR 13
Hull KR 17
Bramley 11
Dewsbury 9
Halifax 10
Hunslet 4
Wakefield Trinity 9
Wakefield Trinity 4
Halifax 12
Halifax 29
Keighley 5
Halifax 10
Featherstone Rovers 0
Bradford Northern 10
Featherstone Rovers 24
Featherstone Rovers 22
Leeds 12
Leeds 20
Castleford 3
Featherstone Rovers 22
Huddersfield 9
Huddersfield 25
Hull F.C. 9
Huddersfield 27
Doncaster 0
Doncaster 3
York 2

Notes and comments

1 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield

General information for those unfamiliar

The Rugby League 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)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  3. ^ a b Frank Butler and Malcolm Gunn (1977). News of the World & Empire News Football Annual 1963-64 - 74th year. News of the World Ltd.
  4. ^ HC&AC committee (1964). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1964 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  5. ^ a b c d "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1964" (PDF).
  6. ^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  7. ^ a b 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.
  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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