Park Avenue in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 18,500 and receipts were £465. Teams and scorers Points Value: Try = 3 points; Goal (any type)= 2 points The road to success The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results Notes and comments 1 * Featherstone Rovers were at the time a junior/amateur club from FeatherstonE 2 * Outwood Parish Church were a junior/amateur club from Outwood (a district to the North of Wakefield) who were playing in the Yorkshire Second Competition (Eastern Section) 3 * Saville Green were a junior/amateur club from the East Leeds area 4 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives Bramley as the home team (and playing at Barley Mow) but the official Hull F.C. archives give the venue as Boulevard, Hull FC's home ground. 5 * Match abandoned after 63 minutes due to "bad light" 6 * Unknown reason for replayed fixture being reversed instead at Craven Park. 7 * Park Avenue was the home ground of Bradford from 1880 until "The Great Betrayal", in 1907. Although the ground capacity is not known it is estimated to have been between 20,000-30,000 See also 1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season Rugby league county cups 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 RFL Yorkshire Cup Yorkshire Cup