1970–71 Yorkshire Cup

The 1970–71 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

1970–71 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersLeeds
Runners-upFeatherstone Rovers

Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 23–7

The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,753 and receipts were £1,879

This was Featherstone Rovers's second Yorkshire Cup final defeat in successive competitions

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

[1][2]

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Fri 28 Aug 1970Hull Kingston Rovers9–27Hull F.C.Craven Park (1)[3]
2Sat 29 Aug 1970Bramley27–5Bradford NorthernMcLaren Field
3Sat 29 Aug 1970Castleford29–4HalifaxWheldon Road
4Sat 29 Aug 1970Featherstone Rovers40–9YorkPost Office Road
5Sat 29 Aug 1970Wakefield Trinity10–20LeedsBelle Vue[4]
6Sun 30 Aug 1970Dewsbury12–10KeighleyCrown Flatt
7Sun 30 Aug 1970Huddersfield17–0BatleyFartown
8Sun 30 Aug 1970Hunsletw/oDoncasterParkside1

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Mon 7 Sep 1970Castleford7–14LeedsWheldon Road
2Fri 11 Sep 1970Bramley12–7DewsburyMcLaren Field
3Fri 11 Sep 1970Hull F.C.42–0DoncasterBoulevard[3]
4Wed 16 Sep 1970Huddersfield8–10Featherstone RoversFartown

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Tue 29 Sep 1970Hull F.C.11–12LeedsBoulevard[3]
2Fri 2 Oct 1970Featherstone Rovers23–2BramleyPost Office Road

Final
Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 21 November 1970Leeds23–7Featherstone RoversOdsal6,753£1,8792[5][6]

Teams and scorers

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Leeds № Featherstone Rovers
teams
John Holmes1Cyril Kellett
Alan Smith2Michael "Mick" Smith
Syd Hynes (c)3Keith Cotton
Ronnie Cowan4John Newlove
John Atkinson5David "Dave" Hartley
Anthony Wainwright6Chris Harding
Mick Shoebottom7Terry Hudson
John Burke8Sam Windmill
Peter Dunn9Dennis Morgan (Sent off)
Phil Cookson10Steve Lyons
Bill Ramsey11Alan Rhodes
Bob Haigh12James "Jimmy" Thompson
Ray Batten13Vince Farrar
John Langley (for Anthony Wainwright)14Paul Coventry (for Chris Harding)
?15?
Derek TurnerCoachesLaurie Gant
23score7
8HT2
Scorers
Tries
Alan Smith (2)TDave Hartley (1)
John Atkinson (1)T
Peter Dunn (1)T
Bill Ramsey (1)T
T
T
T
Goals
Syd Hynes (4)GCyril Kellett (2)
G
G
Drop Goals
DG
DG
DG
RefereeD S Brown (Preston)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the matchSyd Hynes - Leeds - Centre
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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
            
Hull Kingston Rovers 9
Hull F.C. 27
Hull F.C. 42
Doncaster 0
Hunslet w/o
Doncaster
Hull F.C. 11
Leeds 12
Castleford 29
Halifax 4
Castleford 7
Leeds 14
Wakefield Trinity 10
Leeds 20
Leeds 23
Featherstone Rovers 7
Huddersfield 17
Huddersfield 0
Huddersfield 8
Featherstone Rovers 10
Featherstone Rovers 40
York 9
Featherstone Rovers 23
Bramley 2
Bramley 27
Bradford Northern 5
Bramley 12
Dewsbury 7
Dewsbury 12
Keighley 10

Notes and comments

1 * Just prior to the new season's start, the Hunslet players were told they had to accept a cut in wages. This they refused to accept as they had not had a rise for eight years. They went on strike. When the management threatened to close down the club, the players relented and backed down, but after only one match they went back on strike. This match was not played and Doncaster awarded a walk-over.

2 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington

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

References
  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873–1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0-356-17852-8.
  5. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991–1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0-356-17852-8.
  6. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0-356-17851-X.
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