Teams 16 Runners-up Hunslet | Winners Wakefield Trinity | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1956 Yorkshire Cup was the forty-ninth occasion on which the rugby league competition known as the Yorkshire Cup had been held.
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Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 23-5.
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 31,147 and receipts were £5,609.
This is the last occasion on which the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would exceed 30,000
Background
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.
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Round 2 - Quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Round 3 – Semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Teams and scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points