# 1926–27 Yorkshire Cup

The 1926–27 Yorkshire Cup was the nineteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Huddersfield won the trophy for the seventh time in total by beating Wakefield Trinity in the final by the score of 10–3. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,300 and receipts were £863.

## 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 there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's junior entrant Castleford had now turned (semi-)professional, and took part as a full league member; and so the total of entries remained the same at fifteen. This in turn resulted in one byes in the first round.

### Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one byes) and 15 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Batley | 5-3 | Dewsbury | Mount Pleasant |
| 2 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Huddersfield | 21-8 | Keighley | Fartown |
| 3 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Hull | 14-0 | Featherstone Rovers | Boulevard |
| 4 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 2-2 | Halifax | Craven Park (1) |
| 5 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Hunslet | 7-13 | Leeds | Parkside |
| 6 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | Wakefield Trinity | 27-3 | Bradford Northern | Belle Vue |
| 7 | Sat 9 Oct 1926 | York | 24-2 | Castleford | Clarence Street |
| 8 | | Bramley | | bye | |

### Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
| R | Mon 11 Oct 1926 | Halifax | 13-0 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Thrum Hall | |

### Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Mon 18 Oct 1926 | Leeds | 3-26 | York | Headingley |
| 2 | Tue 19 Oct 1926 | Batley | 2-7 | Wakefield Trinity | Mount Pleasant |
| 3 | Wed 20 Oct 1926 | Bramley | 4-16 | Hull | Barley Mow |
| 4 | Wed 20 Oct 1926 | Halifax | 8-10 | Huddersfield | Thrum Hall |

### Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
| 1 | Wed 27 Oct 1926 | Huddersfield | 8-0 | York | Fartown | |
| 2 | Wed 3 Nov 1926 | Wakefield Trinity | 15-5 | Hull | Belle Vue | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Ref |
| | Saturday 27 November 1926 | Huddersfield | P | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | |

### Final - Replay

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Ref |
| R | Wednesday 1 December 1926 | Huddersfield | 10-3 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | 11300 | 863 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| Huddersfield | No. | Wakefield Trinity |
| | teams | |
| Syd Walmsley | 1 | R. Wood/Fred Wood |
| | 2 | Ted Bateson |
| | 3 | Billy Batten |
| | 4 | Thomas "Tommy" Pickup |
| | 5 | Charlie Pollard |
| | 6 | Joe 'Sandy' Pearce |
| | 7 | Jonty Parkin (c) |
| | 8 | Thomas Coles |
| Douglas Clark | 9 | Robin "Bob" White |
| Walker | 10 | W. Ralph Howell |
| Jones | 11 | John William Higson |
| | 12 | Bill Horton |
| | 13 | Charlie Glossop |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 10 | score | 3 |
| 5 | HT | 0 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Walker | T | Edward "Ted" Bateson (1) |
| Jones | T | |
| | Goals | |
| Syd Walmsley (2) | G | |
| Referee | | unknown |
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 | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Final | Final | Final |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 2 (0) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 2 (13) | | | | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 2 (13) | Halifax | Halifax | 8 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 10 | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 21 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 10 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 8 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 8 | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 8 | | | | |
| | | | | | | York | York | 0 | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 7 | | | | | | | York | York | 0 | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 13 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 13 | Leeds | Leeds | 3 | | | | | | | |
| | | | York | York | 26 | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 24 | York | York | 26 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 2 | | | | | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 10 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 3 |
| Batley | Batley | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 3 |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 3 | Batley | Batley | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 7 | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 27 | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 7 | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 2 | | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 15 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hull | Hull | 5 | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | | | | | | | | Hull | Hull | 5 | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | Bramley | Bramley | 4 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull | Hull | 16 | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 14 | Hull | Hull | 16 | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |