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1961–62 Yorkshire Cup

The 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

1961–62 Yorkshire Cup
Regional knockout championship
16
Wakefield Trinity
Leeds

The 1961–62 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity winning the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 19–9

The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,329 and receipts were £2,864

This was Wakefield Trinity's second consecutive triumph and the club's fourth appearance out of five in a period of nine years (which included four as cup winners and one as runner-up)

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants 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.

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att
1	Fri 1 Sep 1961	Castleford	37–8	Halifax	Wheldon Road
2	Fri 1 Sep 1961	Dewsbury	0–15	Batley	Crown Flatt
3	Sat 2 Sep 1961	Featherstone Rovers	31–6	Doncaster	Post Office Road
4	Sat 2 Sep 1961	Hull F.C.	9–8	Huddersfield	Boulevard	11,000
5	Sat 2 Sep 1961	Keighley	14–23	Hunslet	Lawkholme Lane
6	Sat 2 Sep 1961	Leeds	46–13	Hull Kingston Rovers	Headingley
7	Sat 2 Sep 1961	Wakefield Trinity	73–5	Bradford Northern	Belle Vue
8	Sat 2 Sep 1961	York	36–15	Bramley	Clarence Street

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue
1	Wed 13 Sep 1961	Leeds	20–12	Castleford	Headingley
2	Tue 19 Sep 1961	Featherstone Rovers	21–11	Batley	Post Office Road
3	Tue 19 Sep 1961	Hull F.C.	7–13	Wakefield Trinity	Boulevard
4	Wed 20 Sep 1961	York	31–9	Hunslet	Clarence Street

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
1	Wed 4 Oct 1961	Leeds	11–3	Featherstone Rovers	Headingley
2	Wed 4 Oct 1961	Wakefield Trinity	24–4	York	Belle Vue

Game No	Fixture date	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref
	Saturday 11 November 1961	Wakefield Trinity	19–9	Leeds	Odsal	16,329	£2,864

Wakefield Trinity	№	Leeds

	teams
Gerry Round	1	Ken Thornett
Fred Smith	2	Garry Hemingway
Alan Skene	3	Dennis Goodwin
Neil Fox	4	Fred Pickup
Colin Greenwood	5	Eddie Ratcliffe
Harold Poynton	6	Lewis Jones
Keith Holliday	7	Colin Evans
Jack Wilkinson	8	Don Robinson
Milan Kosanović	9	Barry Simms
Albert Firth	10	Trevor Whitehead
Brian Briggs	11	Jack Fairbank
Don Vines	12	John Sykes
Derek "Rocky" Turner (c)	13	Colin Tomlinson
Ken Traill	Coach	Dai Prosser
	Football Manager	Joe Warham
19	score	9
5	HT	5

	Scorers
	Tries
Derek "Rocky" Turner (1)	T	Garry Hemingway (1)
Alan Skene (1)	T
Fred Smith (1)	T
	Goals
Neil Fox (5)	G	Lewis Jones (3)
	G
	Drop Goals
	DG
Referee		Tom Watkinson (Manchester)

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

1961–62 Northern Rugby Football League season
Rugby league county cups
Saints Heritage Society
1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com
Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org

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