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1914–15 Yorkshire Cup
Structure	Regional knockout championship
Teams	13
Winners	Huddersfield
Runners-up	Hull
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The 1914–15 Yorkshire Cup was the tenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league competition, was held.

This year's competition was again the turn of the previous cup holder, Huddersfield, winning the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 31–0

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,000 and receipts were £422

This was Huddersfield's fifth appearance of what would be seven appearances in eight consecutive finals between 1909 and 1919 (which included four successive victories and six in total.) It was also the second of the four consecutive wins.

Background

Britain had declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914 after they had attacked Luxemburg, Belgium and France. A month later the season proper started against this backdrop. The Yorkshire Cup competition started in October and it was to be the last until the end of the war. Tensions had been building across Britain and the rest of Europe for some time, but, despite this, the 1914–1915 season was played to its conclusion, albeit in some cases a little half-heartedly as evidenced in the lower attendances at matches and with several teams absent and many players already enlisted in the Armed Forces. In the middle of 1915 competitive sporting competition was finally suspended. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.

Competition and results

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue
1	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Batley	5–0	Dewsbury	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Bramley	0–25	Halifax	Barley Mow
3	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Hull Kingston Rovers	10–5	Wakefield Trinity	Craven Street (off Holderness Road)
4	Sat 17 Oct 1914	Leeds	11–13	Hunslet	Headingley
5	Sat 17 Oct 1914	York	13–24	Huddersfield	Clarence Street
6		Bradford Northern		bye
7		Hull		bye
8		Keighley		bye

Round 2 – quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue
1	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Batley	2–0	Bradford Northern	Mount Pleasant
2	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Halifax	8A8	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall
3	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Hull	11–5	Hull Kingston Rovers	Boulevard
4	Sat 31 Oct 1914	Hunslet	12–7	Keighley	Parkside

Round 2 – Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
R	Thu 05 Nov 1914	Halifax	2–10	Huddersfield	Thrum Hall

Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Ref
1	Sat 14 Nov 1914	Huddersfield	64–3	Hunslet	Fartown
2	Sat 14 Nov 1914	Hull	7–0	Batley	Boulevard

Final

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Ref
	Saturday 28 November 1914	Huddersfield	31–0	Hull	Headingley	12000	422

Teams and scorers

Huddersfield	№	Hull
	teams
Major Holland	1	Ned Rogers
George Todd	2	Alfred Francis
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld	3	Billy Batten
Harold Wagstaff (c)	4	Jack Harrison (VC)
Stan Moorhouse	5	Jim Devereux
Johnny Rogers	6	Sid Deane
Robert Habron	7	Tom Milner
John Higson	8	Tom Herridge
Douglas Clark	9	William Holder
Ben Gronow	10	Joe Hammill
Fred Longstaff	11	Steve Darmody
Arthur Swinden	12	Percy Oldham
H. Banks	13	Dick Taylor
Arthur Bennett (trainer)	Coach	Sid Melville (trainer)
31	score	0
15	HT	0
	Scorers
	Tries
Harold Wagstaff (2)	T
Stan Moorhouse (1)	T
Billy Banks (1)	T
George Todd (1)	T
Albert "Rozzi" Rosenfeld (1)	T
Johnny Rogers (1)	T
	T
	Goals
Major Holland (5)	G
Referee		Jimmy May (St. Helens)

Scoring – Try = three (3) points – Goal = two (2) points – Drop goal = two (2) points

The road to success

First round		Second round		Semifinals		Final

Bramley	0

Halifax	25
		Halifax	2

		Huddersfield	10
York	13

Huddersfield	24
				Huddersfield	64

				Hunslet	3
Leeds	11

Hunslet	13
		Hunslet	12

		Keighley	7
Keighley

bye
						Huddersfield	31

						Hull	0
Hull

bye
		Hull	11

		Hull Kingston Rovers	5
Hull Kingston Rovers	10

Wakefield Trinity	5
				Hull	7

				Batley	0
Batley	5

Dewsbury	0
		Batley	2

		Bradford Northern	0
Bradford Northern

bye

Notes

Match abandoned after 50 minutes due to fog
The never to be beaten record widest margin victory in a final
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

References

"Rugby League Project".
Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
^ "HULL&PROUD – Stats – Fixtures & Results".
Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
"Huddersfield RL Heritage 1914–15" (PDF).
Irvin Saxton (publish date tbc) "History of Rugby League – № 20 – 1914–15". Rugby Leaguer ISBN n/a

External links

v t e Huddersfield squad – 1914–15 All Four Cups winners
1 H. Banks 2 Douglas Clark 3 Bert Ganley 4 Tom Gleeson 5 Ben Gronow 6 Robert Habron 7 E. Hayes 8 John Higson 9 Major Holland 10 E. Jones 11 Aaron Lee 12 Fred Longstaff 13 Stan Moorhouse 14 Johnny Rogers 15 Albert Rosenfeld 16 Arthur Swinden 17 George Todd 18 Harold Wagstaff (c) Coach: Arthur Bennett
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