1951 Yorkshire Cup

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Teams 16 Runners-up Keighley		Winners Wakefield Trinity
Structure Regional knockout championship

1951 Yorkshire Cup

1951 was the forty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Keighley by the score of 17-3
The match was played at Fartown, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 25,495 and receipts were £3,347
This was Keighley's only appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final (except for the 1943 Wartime final)

Background

This season no junior/amateur clubs were invited to take part, but newly elected to the league Doncaster were added to the competition, thus the number of entrants remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
The competition again followed the original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the exception of the first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.

Round 1 - First leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Round 1 - Second leg

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis

Round 1 - Replay

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Round 2 - Quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis

Round 3 – Semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a knock-out basis

Teams and scorers

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

The road to success

All the ties in the first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
For the first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
For the first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.

References

1951 Yorkshire Cup Wikipedia

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