1922–23 Yorkshire Cup

1922–23 Yorkshire Cup
1922–23 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	14
Winners	York
Runners-up	Batley
	← 1921–22 1923–24 →

The 1922–23 Yorkshire Cup was the fifteen occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. For the third year in succession, the name of yet another new club appeared on the trophy. This year, York won the trophy by beating Batley by the score of 5–0 in the final. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 33,719 and receipts were £2,414.

Background

The Rugby Football League's 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).

Competition and results

This season, two junior clubs were invited to enter bringing the total number taking part up to a "full house" of sixteen, which in turn removed the necessity to have any byes.^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 14 Oct 1922	Bradford Northern	13-3	Keighley	Birch Lane
2	Sat 14 Oct 1922	Bramley	2-7	Dewsbury	Barley Mow
3	We 18 Oct 1922	Sharlston Rovers^[a]	11-32	Batley	Mount Pleasant^[b]
4	Sat 21 Oct 1922	Featherstone Rovers	9-17	Leeds	Post Office Road
5	Sat 21 Oct 1922	Huddersfield	5-0	Halifax	Fartown
6	Sat 21 Oct 1922	Hull Kingston Rovers	14-2	Hull	Craven Park (1)^[c]	^[4]
7	Sat 21 Oct 1922	Hunslet	11-13	Wakefield Trinity	Parkside
8	Sat 21 Oct 1922	York	24-2	Elland Wanderers^[d]	Clarence Street

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue
1	Sat 4 Nov 1922	York	4-3	Huddersfield	Clarence Street
2	Sat 4 Nov 1922	Batley	15-3	Hull Kingston Rovers	Mount Pleasant
3	Sat 4 Nov 1922	Leeds	22-3	Bradford Northern	Headingley
4	Sat 4 Nov 1922	Wakefield Trinity	?	Dewsbury	?

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 18 Nov 1922	Leeds	0-28	Batley	Headingley
2	Sat 18 Nov 1922	Wakefield Trinity	2-4	York	Belle Vue

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Ref
	Saturday 2 December 1922	York	5-0	Batley	Headingley	33,719^[e]	£2414^[f]	^[5]^[6]

Teams and scorers

York	No.	Batley
	teams
Edward Owen	1	Joe Robinson
L. Farrar	2	Albert Carter
A. Corsi	3	Harry Rees
Jack Corsi	4	Bryn Williams
S. Boston	5	Hugh Murray
S. Short	6	Ike Fowler
J. McEwan	7	Willie Scott
H. Brown	8	George Ramsbottom
F. Mirfield	9	James Sykes
J. Bettridge	10	Allen Mortimer
W. Whiting	11	George Douglas
G. S. Reynolds	12	Norman Gardiner
J. A. Ashton	13	Fred Carter
T. Goulden	Coach	??
5	score	0
3	HT	0
	Scorers
	Tries
L. Farrar (1)	T
	Goals
J. McEwan (DG)	G
Referee		Mr B. Ennion (Wigan)

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

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Hunslet	11

Wakefield Trinity	13
		Wakefield Trinity	w

		Dewsbury
Bramley	2

Dewsbury	7
				Wakefield Trinity	2

				York	4
York	24

Elland Wanderers	2
		York	4

		Huddersfield	3
Huddersfield	5

Halifax	0
						York	5

						Batley	0
Featherstone Rovers	9

Leeds	17
		Leeds	22

		Bradford Northern	3
Bradford Northern	13

Keighley	3
				Leeds	0

				Batley	28
Sharlston Rovers	11

Batley	32
		Batley	15

		Hull Kingston Rovers	3
Hull Kingston Rovers	14

Hull	2

Notes

^ Sharlston Rovers are a junior (or amateur) club from Wakefield ^[3]
^ Sharlston Rovers forgo ground advantage for a better ground/higher receipts
^ The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played at the new stadium
^ Elland Wanderers were a Junior/amateur club from Elland (Halifax)
^ The attendance was at the time, a record not to be bettered until 1949, and then only the once.
^ The receipts of £2,414 were also a record and this would stand for almost 25 years until broken in 1946 with a new record of £3,718

References

^ "Rugby League Project".
^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
^ "Sharlston Rovers ARLFC".
^ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ 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.