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1958 Yorkshire Cup

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Teams
  
16

Runners-up
  
Wakefield Trinity

Winners
  
Leeds

Structure
  
Regional knockout championship

1958 Yorkshire Cup

Contents

1958 was the fifty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 24-20.
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 26,927 and receipts were £3,833

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 1 - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 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

References

1958 Yorkshire Cup Wikipedia