1962–63 Yorkshire Cup
The 1962–63 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Hunslet won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 12-2. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,742 and receipts were £4,514 It is the last time for twenty-two years that the attendance at a Yorkshire Cup final would again exceed 20,000 BackgroundThis 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. Competition and resultsRound 1Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Round 1 - replaysInvolved 1 match and 2 clubs
Round 2 - Quarter-finalsInvolved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Round 3 – Semi-finalsInvolved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Final
Teams and scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points The road to success
Notes and comments1 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947. See alsoReferences
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