1954âÂÂ55 was the forty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Halifax winning the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 22-14
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 25,949 and receipts were ã4,638
This was the first of Halifax's two successive victories, both against Hull FC, for whom it was their second of three successive Cup final defeats
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.
Last season saw the end of the two-legged home and away ties, and reverted to the whole competition being based on a simple knock-out formulae
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
1 * 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.
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)