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 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) The Second World War was continuing and the Yorkshire Cup remained in the early part of the 1943–44 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season 1943–44 was the thirty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Hull Kingston Rovers – The club dropped out of the wartime Lancashire league after the ‘first (1939–40) season.
Managed by Eddie Waring, and with the side boosted by the inclusion of a number of big-name guest players, the club won the Wartime Emergency League in 1941–42 and again the following season 1942–43 (though that championship was declared null and void when it was discovered they had played an ineligible player).
For the third successive year, ALL the ties (this season including the actual final) were played on a two-legged home and away basis.