Teams 16 Runners-up Halifax | Winners Bradford Northern | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The Autumn 1941 Yorkshire Cup took place in Autumn 1941.
Contents
- Change in Club participation
- Background
- Round 1 First Leg
- Round 1 Second Leg
- Round 2 Quarter Finals First Leg
- Round 2 Second Leg
- Round 3 Semi Finals First Leg
- Semi Final Second Leg
- Teams and Scorers
- The road to success
- References
The Yorkshire Cup was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The Autumn of 1941 was the thirty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
The final was played at Fartown, Huddersfield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,989 and receipts were £635. Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Halifax 24-0. This was the second consecutive victory for Bradford Northern
Change in Club participation
Historically, the Yorkshire Cup area had frequently changed to encompass other teams from outside the county The Second World War was continuing and the Yorkshire Cup was moved back to the early part of the 1941–42 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season i.e. the Autumn.
Hull Kingston Rovers – The club dropped out of the wartime Lancashire league after the ‘first (1939–40) season. They did not return to league competition until 1945–46 peacetime season.
Wigan - This club entered the Yorkshire Cup competition for the second successive season
Oldham - The club, as Wigan, also entered the Yorkshire Cup competition and for the second successive season
Dewsbury - had a relatively successful time during the war years. Managed by Eddie Waring, and with the side boosted by the inclusion of a number of big-name guest players, the club won the Wartime Emergency League in 1941–42 and again the following season 1942–43 (though that championship was declared null and void when it was discovered they had played an ineligible player). They were also runners-up in the Championship in 1943–44, Challenge Cup winners in 1943 and Yorkshire Cup Final appearances in this season 1940–41 and winners in 1942–43.
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no further withdrawals, and no additional "new entrants", which with the continued presence of the two Lancashire clubs, Wigan and Oldham resulted in the number of entrants remaining at last seasons total of sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
For the first time all the ties (with the exception of the actual final) were 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 2 - Quarter Finals - First Leg
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
All second round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Round 2 - Second Leg
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
All second round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Round 3 – Semi-Finals - First Leg
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis
Semi-Final - Second Leg
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Both semi-final ties are played on a two-legged home and away 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 (excluding the final itself) were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.
Where the round was played on a two-leg (home and away) basis, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.
Where the round was played on a two-leg (home and away) basis, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.