1949 Yorkshire Cup
| 1949–50 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Bradford Northern |
| Runners-up | Huddersfield |
1949 was the forty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Huddersfield by the score of 11-4.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 36,000, a record never to be beaten, and receipts were £6,365.
This was the second of two successive wins for Bradford Northern
This season, junior/amateur clubs Yorkshire Amateurs were again invited to take part and the number of clubs who entered remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.
1 * Yorkshire Amateurs were a team from Yorkshire which appeared to have players selected from many both professional and amateur clubs - can anyone comment ? Yorkshire Amateurs played on many grounds, this match was played at Parkside, the ground of Hunslet
2 * The date is given by RUGBYLEAGUEproject xx as Tuesday 13 September, but by the official Hull F.C. archives as Wednesday 14 September
3 * The attendance was a new record, never to be beaten, and beating the previous of 34,300 set in 1946
4 * 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.
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