1958 Yorkshire Cup
| 1958–59 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Leeds |
| Runners-up | Wakefield Trinity |
1958 Yorkshire Cup
1958 was the fifty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 24-20.
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 26,927 and receipts were £3,833
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 1 match and 2 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 receipts are given as £3,833 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91 but £3 less at £3,832 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973 by J C Lindley and D W Armitage
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
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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