Teams 13 Runners-up Hull | Winners Huddersfield | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1914 Yorkshire Cup was the tenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition, a Rugby league competition, was held.
Contents
- Background
- Round 1
- Round 2 Quarter Finals
- Round 2 Replays
- Round 3 Semi Finals
- Teams and Scorers
- References
This year's competition was again the turn of the previous cup holder, Huddersfield, winning the trophy by beating Hull 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 entants 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.
Round 1
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Round 2 - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points