1907 Yorkshire Cup
| 1907–08 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 13 |
| Winners | Hunslet |
| Runners-up | Halifax |
The 1907 Yorkshire Cup was the third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. This year's final was a repeat of the first cup final in 1905 with the same two clubs and the same outcome. Hunslet won the trophy for the second time in three years by beating Halifax by the score of 17–0
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts were £397
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, Pontefract folded part way through the last season, and last years cup winner and cup holder, Bradford, became turncoats to play with the round ball. As replacement, a new club Bradford Northern joined the league, resulting in an overall decrease of two from 1906, and giving a total of thirteen entrants.
This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Scoring – Try = three (3) points – Goal = two (2) points – Drop goal = two (2) points
1 * 1 * First Yorkshire Cup match played by newly formed club Bradford Northern who replaced Bradford who had converted to Soccer
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.
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)
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