1963 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
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| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Halifax | |||
| Runners-up | Featherstone Rovers | |||
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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.
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
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
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