# 1963–64 Yorkshire Cup

The 1963–64 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
### Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att |
| 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 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 17-11 | Bramley | Craven Park (1) | |
| 7 | Sat 7 Sep 1963 | Hunslet | 4-9 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside | |
| 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 |
| 1 | Tue 17 Sep 1963 | Dewsbury | 17-13 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 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 |
| 4 | Mon 23 Sep 1963 | Wakefield Trinity | 4-12 | Halifax | Belle Vue | |

### 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 | | | |

### 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 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| Halifax | № | Featherstone Rovers |
| | teams | |
| Ronald James | 1 | Jack "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 |
| Wyn Philips | 11 | Terry Ramshaw |
| Terry Fogerty | 12 | Harry Brown |
| Charlie Renilson | 13 | Colin Clifft |
| ?? | Coach | John Malpass |
| 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 | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final | Final |
| Batley | Batley | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 13 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 13 | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 17 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 17 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 13 | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 11 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 11 | | | | Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 9 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 10 | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 4 | | | | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 10 | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 9 | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 4 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Halifax | Halifax | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 29 | Halifax | Halifax | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 5 | | | | | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 10 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 0 |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 0 |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 24 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 24 | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 22 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Leeds | Leeds | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 20 | Leeds | Leeds | 12 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 3 | | | | Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 22 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 9 | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 25 | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 9 | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull F.C. | Hull F.C. | 9 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 27 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Doncaster | Doncaster | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Doncaster | Doncaster | 3 | Doncaster | Doncaster | 0 | | | | | | | |
| York | 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