1936 Yorkshire Cup

1936 Yorkshire Cup

Contents

• Background
• Round 1
• Round 1 Replays
• Round 2 Quarter Finals
• Round 3 Semi Finals
• Teams and Scorers
• References

The 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 Mansfield, Coventry, this season's appearance of Newcastle, and even last year's appearance of London (in the form of Acton & Willesden. The 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)
1936 was the twenty-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

York won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 9-2
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 19,000 and receipts were £1,294
This was the York's second successive appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final, last year as defeated finalists. It was also the third and last of York's Yorkshire Cup winning appearances, although they would appear in the finals twice more, on each occasion ending as defeated finalists