1956 Yorkshire Cup
| 1956–57 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Wakefield Trinity |
| Runners-up | Hunslet |
The 1956 Yorkshire Cup was the forty-ninth occasion on which the rugby league competition known as the Yorkshire County Cup had been held.
Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 23-5.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 31,147 and receipts were £5,609.
This is the last occasion on which the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would exceed 30,000
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.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
1 * The attendance is given as 30,942 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91 but 31,147 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973 by J C Lindley and D W Armitage and also by RUGBYLEAGUEproject
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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