1955–56 Yorkshire Cup

{{Infobox rugby football league season

| title = 1955–56 Yorkshire Cup

| structure = Regional knockout championship

| season_champs = Halifax

| season_champ_name = Winners

| runner-up_name = Runner-up

| second_place = Hull F.C.

| prevseason_link = 1954 Yorkshire Cup

| prevseason_year = 1954–55

| nextseason_link = 1956 Yorkshire Cup

| nextseason_year = 1956–57

| no_of_teams = 16

}}

1955–56 was the forty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

This year's final was a repeat of last years' final and between cup holder Halifax and last season runner-up Hull F.C. with the same outcome (albeit via a replay).

Halifax won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 10-10 in a replayed final.

The original final, which ended in a 10-10 draw, was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 23,520 and receipts were £4,385.

The replay was played 11 days later at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 14,000 and receipts were £2,439.

This was the second of Halifax's two successive victories, both against Hull FC, for whom it was their third successive cup final defeat.

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.

This season saw a continuation of the simple knock-out formulas, there was to be no return to the two-legged ties.

Competition and results

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= Round 1 =

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

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1	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Batley	13-25	Hull F.C.	Mount Pleasant		{{cite web\|title=HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results\|url=http://www.hullfc.com/first-team/matches/1955}}
2	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Bradford Northern	27-23	Hunslet	Odsal
3	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Bramley	16-13	Doncaster	Barley Mow
4	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Castleford	29-8	Dewsbury	Wheldon Road
5	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Featherstone Rovers	26-9	Huddersfield	Post Office Road	9,000
6	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Hull Kingston Rovers	21-13	Keighley	Craven Park (1)
7	Sat 27 Aug 1955	Leeds	13-31	Wakefield Trinity	Headingley
8	Wed 31 Aug 1955	York	5-13	Halifax	Clarence Street

= Round 2 - quarterfinals =

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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1	Mon 5 Sep 1955	Hull F.C.	12-5	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard
2	Fri 9 Sep 1955	Bramley	5-12	Bradford Northern	Barley Mow
3	Wed 14 Sep 1955	Castleford	17-0	Hull Kingston Rovers	Wheldon Road
4	Thu 15 Sep 1955	Wakefield Trinity	4-21	Halifax	Belle Vue

= Round 3 – semifinals =

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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1	Tue 20 Sep 1955	Hull F.C.	23-16	Bradford Northern	Boulevard
2	Wed 28 Sep 1955	Castleford	8-24	Halifax	Wheldon Road

= Final =

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width=20 abbr="No" |Game No

!width=100 abbr="Date"|Fixture date

!width=150 abbr="Home team"|Home team

!width=5 abbr="space" |

!width=20 abbr="Score" |Score

!width=5 abbr="space" |

!width=150 abbr="Away team" |Away team

!width=150 abbr="Venue" |Venue

!width=45 abbr="Att" |Att

!width=60 abbr="Rec" |Rec

!width=20 abbr="Notes" |Notes

!width=30 abbr="Ref" |Ref

Saturday 22 October 1955

Halifax

10-10

Hull F.C.

Headingley

23,520

£4,385

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= Final - replay=

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width=20 abbr="No" |Game No

!width=100 abbr="Date"|Fixture date

!width=150 abbr="Home team"|Home team

!width=5 abbr="space" |

!width=20 abbr="Score" |Score

!width=5 abbr="space" |

!width=150 abbr="Away team" |Away team

!width=150 abbr="Venue" |Venue

!width=45 abbr="Att" |Att

!width=60 abbr="Rec" |Rec

!width=20 abbr="Notes" |Notes

!width=30 abbr="Ref" |Ref

Wednesday 2 November 1955

Halifax

7-0

Hull F.C.

Odsal

14,000

£2,439

== Teams and scorers ==

width=280 abbr=winner\|Halifax !width=60 abbr="Number"\|№ !width=280 abbr=runner-up\|Hull F.C.
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	teams
	1	Jack Watkinson
	2	Keith Bowman
	3	Carl R. Turner
	4	William "Bill" Riches
	5	Ivor Watts
Ken Dean	6	Rowley Moat
	7	Tommy Finn
	8	Mick Scott (c)
Alvin Ackerley (c)	9	Tommy Harris
	10	Bob Coverdale
	11	Harry Markham
	12	Bill Drake
	13	Johnny Whiteley
??	Coach	Roy Francis
		\|
10	score	10
7	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
	T
	T
	Goals
	G
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		G.S. Phillips (Widnes)


Replay


	teams
	1	Colin Hutton
	2	Keith Bowman
	3	William "Bill" Riches
	4	Carl R. Turner
	5	Ivor Watts
Ken Dean	6	Rowley Moat
	7	Tommy Finn
	8	Mick Scott (c)
Alvin Ackerley (c)	9	Tommy Harris
	10	Bob Coverdale
	11	Harry Markham
	12	Bill Drake
	13	Johnny Whiteley
	Coach	Roy Francis
		\|
7	score	0
2	HT	0

	Scorers
	Tries
	T
	Goals
	G
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		N.T. Railton (Wigan)

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

= The road to success =

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| RD2=Second round

| RD3=Semifinals

| RD4=Final

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| RD1-team02=Dewsbury

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| RD1-seed03=

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| RD1-team04=Keighley

| RD1-score04=13

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| RD1-seed06=

| RD1-team06=Wakefield Trinity

| RD1-score06=31

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| RD1-team07=York

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| RD1-seed08=

| RD1-team08=Halifax

| RD1-score08=13

| RD1-seed09=

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| RD1-score09=13

| RD1-seed10=

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| RD1-seed11=

| RD1-team11=Featherstone Rovers

| RD1-score11=26

| RD1-seed12=

| RD1-team12=Huddersfield

| RD1-score12=9

| RD1-seed13=

| RD1-team13=Bramley

| RD1-score13=16

| RD1-seed14=

| RD1-team14=Doncaster

| RD1-score14=13

| RD1-seed15=

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| RD1-seed16=

| RD1-team16=Hunslet

| RD1-score16=23

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| RD2-score01=17

| RD2-seed02=

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| RD2-seed03=

| RD2-team03=Wakefield Trinity

| RD2-score03=4

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| RD2-team04=Halifax

| RD2-score04=21

| RD2-seed05=

| RD2-team05=Hull F.C.

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| RD2-team06=Featherstone Rovers

| RD2-score06=5

| RD2-seed07=

| RD2-team07=Bramley

| RD2-score07=5

| RD2-seed08=

| RD2-team08=Bradford Northern

| RD2-score08=12

| RD3-seed01=

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| RD3-score01=8

| RD3-seed02=

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| RD3-score02=24

| RD3-seed03=

| RD3-team03=Hull F.C.

| RD3-score03=23

| RD3-seed04=

| RD3-team04=Bradford Northern

| RD3-score04=16

| RD4-seed01=

| RD4-team01=Halifax

| RD4-score01=10 (0)

| RD4-seed02=

| RD4-team02=Hull F.C.

| RD4-score02=10 (7)

}}

Notes and comments

1 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.

2 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington

= 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)

References

External links

[http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=9 Saints Heritage Society]
[http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=319 1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120302024838/http://www.hullfc.com/FixturesAndResults.aspx?sg=12&gi=3 Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897]
[http://www.rugby.widnes.tv/seasonreview.php?mid=1896&smid=1896-97&mids=1896 Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080828182311/http://www.warringtonwolves.org/HistoryB.ink The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org]

Category:1955 in English rugby league

Category:RFL Yorkshire Cup

1955–56 Yorkshire Cup

Background

Competition and results

= Round 1 =

= Round 2 - quarterfinals =

= Round 3 – semifinals =

= Final =

= Final - replay=

== Teams and scorers ==

= The road to success =

Notes and comments

= General information for those unfamiliar =

See also

References

External links