The 1926–27 Yorkshire Cup was the nineteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Huddersfield won the trophy for the seventh time in total by beating Wakefield Trinity in the final by the score of 10–3. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,300 and receipts were £863.
Background The Rugby Football League's Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars).
Competition and results This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, but last year's junior entrant Castleford had now turned (semi-)professional, and took part as a full league member; and so the total of entries remained the same at fifteen. This in turn resulted in one byes in the first round.
Round 1 Involved 7 matches (with one byes) and 15 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Sat 9 Oct 1926Batley5–3DewsburyMount Pleasant2Sat 9 Oct 1926Huddersfield21–8KeighleyFartown3Sat 9 Oct 1926Hull14–0Featherstone RoversBoulevard4Sat 9 Oct 1926Hull Kingston Rovers2–2HalifaxCraven Park (1)5Sat 9 Oct 1926Hunslet7–13LeedsParkside6Sat 9 Oct 1926Wakefield Trinity27–3Bradford NorthernBelle Vue7Sat 9 Oct 1926York24–2CastlefordClarence Street8Bramleybye
Round 1 - replays Involved 1 match and 2 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRefRMon 11 Oct 1926Halifax13–0Hull Kingston RoversThrum Hall
Round 2 – quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Mon 18 Oct 1926Leeds3–26YorkHeadingley2Tue 19 Oct 1926Batley2–7Wakefield TrinityMount Pleasant3Wed 20 Oct 1926Bramley4–16HullBarley Mow4Wed 20 Oct 1926Halifax8–10HuddersfieldThrum Hall
Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Game NoFixture dateHome teamScoreAway teamVenueRef1Wed 27 Oct 1926Huddersfield8–0YorkFartown2Wed 3 Nov 1926Wakefield Trinity15–5HullBelle Vue
Final The final was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday 27 November 1926, but was postponed due to fog.
Teams HuddersfieldNo.Wakefield Trinity teams Syd Walmsley1R. Wood/Fred WoodArthur Walker2Ted BatesonEdward Fisher3Billy BattenJoe Oliver4Thomas "Tommy" PickupJoe Brook5Charlie PollardHarry Jones6Joe 'Sandy' PearceEddie Williams7Jonty Parkin (c)Arthur Sherwood8Thomas ColesWilliam Barlow9Robin "Bob" WhiteRichard Cracknell10W. Ralph HowellBryn Phillips11John William HigsonHenry Tiffany12Bill HortonDouglas Clark13Charlie Glossop??Coach??
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See also 1926–27 Northern Rugby Football League season Rugby league county cups
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References
External links 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