1951 Yorkshire Cup
| 1951–52 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Wakefield Trinity |
| Runners-up | Keighley |
1951 Yorkshire Cup
1951 was the forty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Keighley by the score of 17-3
The match was played at Fartown, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 25,495 and receipts were £3,347
This was Keighley's only appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final (except for the 1943 Wartime final)
This season no junior/amateur clubs were invited to take part, but newly elected to the league Doncaster were added to the competition, thus the number of entrants 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 1 match and 2 clubs
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 * The first Yorkshire Cup match to be played by newly elected to the league, Doncaster, and also at this stadium
2 * The receipts are given as £3,237 by the official Huddersfield 1952 Yearbook but given as £3,227 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973" and £3,347 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject and by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91
3 * 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.
Due to lack of maintenance, terrace closures and finally major storm damage closing one of the stands in 1986, the final ground capacity had been reduced to just a few thousands although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup semi-final on 19 April 1947 when a crowd of 35,136 saw Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 21-0
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