1961–62 Yorkshire Cup

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)

Background
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.

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

Notes and comments
1 * This was both the record score and winning margin at the  time. It also equalled Wakefield Trinity's record score (v Broughton Moor Amat in 1950) - Gerry Round kicked 11 goals to equal the club record

2 * The attendance is given as 16,429 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973" and 16,329 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject and by the  Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91

3 * The receipts are quoted as £2,914 by "100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973" but £2,864 in the  Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91

4 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington

General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League 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)