The 1933–34 Yorkshire Cup was the twenty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. York won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 10-4. 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 fifteen. This in turn resulted in one bye in the first round. Competition and results Round 1 Involved 7 matches (with one bye) and 17 clubs Round 2 – quarterfinals Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Round 3 – semifinals Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Final The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,222 and receipts were £1,480. Teams and scorers Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points The road to success Notes and comments 1 * The attendance is given as 22,222 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject but 22,000 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91 2 * 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. 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) See also 1933–34 Northern Rugby Football League 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