# 1933–34 Yorkshire Cup

The 1933–34 Yorkshire Cup was the twenty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. York won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 10-4.

## 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 fifteen.
This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round.

## Competition and results
### Round 1

Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 17 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Wed 11 Oct 1933 | Featherstone Rovers | 7-12 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Post Office Road |
| 2 | Sat 14 Oct 1933 | Batley | 7-12 | York | Mount Pleasant |
| 3 | Sat 14 Oct 1933 | Castleford | 10-9 | Hunslet | Wheldon Road |
| 4 | Sat 14 Oct 1933 | Dewsbury | 4-5 | Leeds | Crown Flatt |
| 5 | Sat 14 Oct 1933 | Halifax | 23-5 | Wakefield Trinity | Thrum Hall |
| 6 | Sat 14 Oct 1933 | Huddersfield | 17-4 | Keighley | Fartown |
| 7 | Sat 14 Oct 1933 | Hull | 9-7 | Bramley | Boulevard |
| 8 | | Bradford Northern | | bye | |

### Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Wed 14 Oct 1933 | Bradford Northern | 5-8 | Huddersfield | Birch Lane |
| 2 | Wed 25 Oct 1933 | Halifax | 18-2 | Castleford | Thrum Hall |
| 3 | Wed 25 Oct 1933 | Leeds | 5-9 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley |
| 4 | Wed 25 Oct 1933 | York | 13-2 | Hull | Clarence Street |

### Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| 1 | Mon 6 Nov 1933 | Halifax | 5-7 | York | Thrum Hall | | | | |
| 2 | Mon 13 Nov 1933 | Huddersfield | 3-20 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Fartown | | | | |

### Final

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,222 and receipts were £1,480.
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| | Sat 25 Nov 1933 | York | 10-4 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Headingley | 22,222 | £1,480 | 1 2 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| York | No | Hull Kingston Rovers |
| | teams | |
| Tommy Dingsdale | 1 | George Carmichael |
| Lou Brown | 2 | Ted Tattersfield |
| Mel Rosser | 3 | Jack Spamer |
| Jeff Moores | 4 | Louis Beaumont |
| F. Smith | 5 | Roland Hill |
| Gurnos Rees | 6 | John Woodcock |
| William Thomas | 7 | Harry ‘Scrubber’ Dale |
| Harry Bland | 8 | Ben Britton |
| Eddie Myers | 9 | Harold Binks |
| W. John | 10 | W. Eddoms |
| Horace Coldrick | 11 | F. Blossom |
| Fred Elias | 12 | Charlie Brown |
| Norman Fender | 13 | George Saddington |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 10 | score | 4 |
| 3 | HT | 2 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| Lou Brown (1), Fred Smith (1) | T | |
| | T | |
| | Goals | |
| Tommy Dingsdale (2) | G | George Carmichael (2) |
| | G | |
| | Drop Goals | |
| | DG | |
| 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 |
| Halifax | Halifax | 23 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 5 | Halifax | Halifax | 18 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Castleford | Castleford | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | 10 | Castleford | Castleford | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 9 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 9 | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 5 | | | | |
| | | | | | | York | York | 7 | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 7 | | | | | | | York | York | 7 | | | | |
| York | York | 12 | | | | | | | | | | |
| York | York | 12 | York | York | 13 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull | Hull | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 9 | Hull | Hull | 2 | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Bramley | Bramley | 7 | | | | | | | | York | York | 10 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 4 |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | | | | | | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 4 |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 5 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 17 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 4 | | | | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 3 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 20 | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 4 | | | | | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 20 | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 5 | Leeds | Leeds | 5 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 9 | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 7 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 9 | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 12 | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 22,222 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject but 22,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91
2 * 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.

### 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)