1965–66 Yorkshire Cup
The 1965–66 Yorkshire Cup was the fifty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
| 1965–66 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Bradford Northern |
| Runners-up | Hunslet |
Bradford Northern winning the trophy by beating Hunslet by the score of 17-8
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 17,522 and receipts were £4,359
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 sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Competition and results
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri 3 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 8-2 | Doncaster | Parkside | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Batley | 9-37 | Halifax | Mount Pleasant | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Castleford | 22-8 | Featherstone Rovers | Wheldon Road | ||||||
| 47 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Dewsbury | 4-27 | Huddersfield | Crown Flatt | 2,800 | [4] | ||||
| 5 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 17-9 | York | Craven Park (1) | ||||||
| 6 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Keighley | 2-19 | Bradford Northern | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||
| 7 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Leeds | 40-4 | Bramley | Headingley | ||||||
| 8 | Sat 4 Sep 1965 | Wakefield Trinity | 4-8 | Hull F.C. | Belle Vue | [5] |
Round 2 - Quarter-finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon? 13 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 9-8 | Hull F.C. | Parkside | [5] | |||||
| 2 | Tue 14 Sep 1965 | Castleford | 25-8 | Halifax | Wheldon Road | ||||||
| 3 | Wed 15 Sep 1965 | Bradford Northern | 12-6 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Odsal | ||||||
| 4 | Wed 15 Sep 1965 | Huddersfield | 16-6 | Leeds | Fartown | 4,008 | [4] |
Round 3 – Semi-finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon? 27 Sep 1965 | Hunslet | 17-10 | Castleford | Parkside | 9,347 | |||||
| 2 | Wed 29 Sep 1965 | Bradford Northern | 7-7 | Huddersfield | Odsal |
Semi-final - replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Thu 30 Sep 1965 | Huddersfield | 4-7 | Bradford Northern | Fartown |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 16 October 1965 | Bradford Northern | 17-8 | Hunslet | Headingley | 17,522 | £4,359 | 1 | [6][7] |
Teams and scorers
| Bradford Northern | No. | Hunslet |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Joe Scattergood? | 1 | Billy Langton |
| Lionel Williamson | 2 | Barry Lee |
| Ian Brooke | 3 | Geoff Shelton |
| Alan Rhodes | 4 | Arthur Render |
| Willie Walker | 5 | Tommy Thompson |
| Dave Stockwell | 6 | Alan Preece |
| Thomas Smales | 7 | Alan Marchant |
| Albert Tonkinson | 8 | Dennis Hartley |
| Dennis Morgan? | 9 | Bernard Prior |
| Dave Hill | 10 | William "Billy" Baldwinson/Ken Eyre |
| G Ashton | 11 | Bill Ramsey |
| Terry Clawson | 12 | Geoff Gunney |
| Johnny Rae | 13 | Fred Ward |
| Gus Risman | Coach | Fred Ward |
| 17 | score | 8 |
| 7 | HT | 3 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Lionel Williamson (2) | T | Barry Lee (1) |
| Ian Brooke (1) | T | Tommy Thompson (1) |
| T | ||
| T | ||
| Goals | ||
| Terry Clawson (4) | G | Billy Langton (1) |
| G | ||
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | Eric Lawrenson (Warrington) | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 7 (7) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 7 (4) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
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.
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)
References
- "Rugby League Project".
- Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
- HC&AC Committee (1966). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1966 (price 1/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1966" (PDF).
- "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.