1955 Yorkshire Cup
| 1955–56 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Halifax |
| Runners-up | Hull F.C. |
1955 Yorkshire Cup
1955 was the forty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
This years final was a repeat of last years' final and between cup holder Halifax and last season runner-up Hull F.C. with the same result.
Halifax won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 10-10 in a replayed final
The original final, which ended in a 10-10 draw, was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 23,520 and receipts were £4,385
The replay was played 11 days later at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 14,000 and receipts were £2,439.
This was the second of Halifax's two successive victories, both against Hull F.C., for whom it was their third successive Cup Final defeat
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
This season saw a contuation of the simple knock-out formulae, there was to be no return to the two-legged ties
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
three (3) - Try = points two (2) - Goal = points two (2) - Drop goal = points
1 * 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.
2 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington
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