# 1932–33 Yorkshire Cup

The 1932–33 Yorkshire Cup was the fifteenth occasion on which Rugby Football League's (RFL) Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 8-0
The match was played at Fartown, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 17,685 and receipts were £1,183
This was Leeds' third of six victories in a period of ten years, during which time they won every Yorkshire Cup final in which they appeared

## 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 15 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | Bradford Northern | 9-5 | Hull | Birch Lane |
| 2 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | Bramley | 5-18 | Hunslet | Barley Mow |
| 3 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | Halifax | 17-4 | Batley | Thrum Hall |
| 4 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | Huddersfield | 12-10 | Featherstone Rovers | Fartown |
| 5 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | Leeds | 13-5 | Dewsbury | Headingley |
| 6 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | Wakefield Trinity | 11-2 | Keighley | Belle Vue |
| 7 | Sat 8 Oct 1932 | York | 3-0 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Clarence Street |
| 8 | | Castleford | | bye | |

### Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue |
| 1 | Mon 17 Oct 1932 | Huddersfield | 2-2 | Halifax | Fartown |
| 2 | Wed 19 Oct 1932 | Castleford | 26-9 | Bradford Northern | Wheldon Road |
| 3 | Wed 19 Oct 1932 | Hunslet | 7-8 | Wakefield Trinity | Parkside |
| 4 | Wed 19 Oct 1932 | York | 0-7 | Leeds | Clarence Street |

### Round 2 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| R | Thu 20 Oct 1932 | Halifax | 2-0 | Huddersfield | Thrum Hall | | | | |

### Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| 1 | Wed 26 Oct 1932 | Leeds | 9-2 | Castleford | Headingley | | | | |
| 2 | Wed 2 Nov 1932 | Wakefield Trinity | 16-11 | Halifax | Belle Vue | | | | |

### Final

| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref |
| | Saturday 19 November 1932 | Leeds | 8-0 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | 17,685 | £1,183 | 1 | |

#### Teams and scorers

| Leeds | № | Wakefield Trinity |
| team unknown | teams | |
| | 1 | Gilbert Robinson |
| | 2 | Edward Brogden |
| Jeff Moores (position uncertain) | 3 | Frank Lingard |
| Frank O'Rourke (position uncertain) | 4 | Ernest Pollard |
| | 5 | Frederick "Freddie" G. Smart |
| | 6 | Joe 'Sandy' Pearce |
| | 7 | Sam Herberts |
| | 8 | Leonard Higson |
| | 9 | Sam Gee |
| | 10 | Jimmy A. Hobson |
| | 11 | William "Bill" Horton |
| | 12 | G H "Mick" Exley |
| | 13 | Harry Wilkinson |
| ?? | Coach | ?? |
| 8 | score | 0 |
| 3 | HT | 0 |
| | Scorers | |
| | Tries | |
| 2 | T | nil |
| | T | |
| | Goals | |
| 1 | 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 |
| York | York | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull Kingston Rovers | Hull Kingston Rovers | 0 | York | York | 0 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Leeds | Leeds | 7 | | | | | | | |
| Leeds | Leeds | 13 | Leeds | Leeds | 7 | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dewsbury | Dewsbury | 5 | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 9 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 2 | | | | |
| Castleford | Castleford | | | | | | | | Castleford | Castleford | 2 | | | | |
| bye | bye | | | | | | | | | | | |
| bye | bye | | Castleford | Castleford | 26 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 9 | | | | | | | |
| Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 9 | Bradford Northern | Bradford Northern | 9 | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hull | Hull | 5 | | | | | | | | Leeds | Leeds | 8 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 0 |
| Bramley | Bramley | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 0 |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 18 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Hunslet | Hunslet | 18 | Hunslet | Hunslet | 7 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 11 | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 8 | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Keighley | Keighley | 2 | | | | Wakefield Trinity | Wakefield Trinity | 16 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 11 | | | | |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 12 | | | | | | | Halifax | Halifax | 11 | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 10 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Featherstone Rovers | Featherstone Rovers | 10 | Huddersfield | Huddersfield | 2 (0) | | | | | | | |
| | | | Halifax | Halifax | 2 (2) | | | | | | | |
| Halifax | Halifax | 17 | Halifax | Halifax | 2 (2) | | | | | | | |
| Batley | Batley | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |

## Notes and comments

1 * Fartown was the home ground of Huddersfield from 1878 to the end of the 1991-92 season to Huddersfield Town FC's Leeds Road stadium, and then to the McAlpine Stadium in 1994. Fartown remained as a sports/Rugby League ground but is now rather dilapidated, and is only used for staging amateur rugby league games.

### 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)