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1907–08 Yorkshire Cup
1907–08 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	13
Winners	Hunslet
Runners-up	Halifax
	← 1906–07 1908–09 →

The 1907 Yorkshire Cup was the third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This year's final was a repeat of the first Yorkshire Cup final in which the same two clubs reached the same outcome. Hunslet won the trophy for the second time in three years by beating Halifax by the score of 17–0

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts were £397

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, Pontefract folded part way through the last season, and last years cup winner and cup holder, Bradford, became turncoats to play with the round ball. As replacement, a new club Bradford Northern joined the league, resulting in an overall decrease of two from 1906, and giving a total of thirteen entrants.

This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.

Competition and results

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Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Halifax	10–5	Batley	Thrum Hall
2	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Hull	21–10	Keighley	Boulevard	^[3]
3	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Hunslet	50–0	Bramley	Parkside
4	Sat 09 Nov 1907	Leeds	16–2	Hull Kingston Rovers	Headingley
5	Sat 09 Nov 1907	York	14–15	Bradford Northern^[a]	Clarence Street
6	09 Nov 1907	Dewsbury	0	bye
7	09 Nov 1907	Huddersfield	0	bye
8	09 Nov 1907	Wakefield Trinity	0	bye

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Dewsbury	3–15	Hull	Crown Flatt	^[3]
2	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Halifax	31–0	Bradford Northern	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Huddersfield	2–2	Wakefield Trinity	Fartown
4	Sat 23 Nov 1907	Hunslet	17–10	Leeds	Parkside

Round 2 – Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
R	Wed 27 Nov 1907	Wakefield Trinity	12–0	Huddersfield	Belle Vue

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 07 Dec 1907	Hull	2–16	Halifax	Boulevard	^[3]
2	Sat 07 Dec 1907	Hunslet	10–0	Wakefield Trinity	Parkside

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Ref
	Saturday 21 December 1907	Hunslet	17–0	Halifax	Headingley^[b]	15,000	397	^[4]^[5]

Teams and scorers

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Hunslet	№	Halifax
	teams
Herbert Place	1	Billy Little
Fred Farrar	2	Harry Morley
Charlie Ward	3	Fred Atkins
Billy Eagers	4	Eddie Ward
Billy Batten	5	Joe Riley
Albert Goldthorpe	6	Jimmy Hilton
Fred Smith	7	Tommy Grey
Harry Wilson	8	Joseph Brearley
Billy Brookes	9	Fred Hammond
Bill Dukes	10	Asa Robinson
Jack Randall	11	Fred Littlewood
Tom Walsh	12	John Langhorn
Walter Wray	13	L Sunderland
	Coach
17	score	0
4	HT	0
	Scorers
	Tries
Billy Batten	T
Fred Smith	T
Albert Goldthorpe	T
	T
	T
	Goals
Charlie Ward	G
Billy Eagers	G
Albert Goldthorpe (2)	G
	DG
Referee		Billy Mc Cutcheon (Oldham)
Attendance: 15,000

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

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Bradford	68

Bramley	2
		Bradford	21

		Leeds	5
Wakefield Trinity	7

Leeds	19
				Bradford	6

				Keighley	4
Keighley	34

New Blackpool	2
		Keighley	34

		York	2
York	8

Batley	7
						Bradford	8

						Hull Kingston Rovers	5
Hull Kingston Rovers	44

Pontefract	0
		Hull Kingston Rovers	11

		Huddersfield	3
Dewsbury	10

Huddersfield	27
				Hull Kingston Rovers	21

				Halifax	0
Hull	3

Halifax	6
		Halifax	6

		Hunslet	0
Hunslet

bye

Notes

^ First Yorkshire Cup match played by newly formed club Bradford Northern who replaced Bradford who had converted to Soccer
^ 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.

References

^ "Rugby League Project".
^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
^ ^a ^b ^c "HULL&PROUD – Stats – Fixtures & Results 1896/1897".
^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
^ "Hunslet Remembered". Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
^ Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 13 – 1907–08". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a