1974–75 Yorkshire Cup
The 1974–75 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
| 1974–75 Yorkshire Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | Regional knockout championship |
| Teams | 16 |
| Winners | Hull Kingston Rovers |
| Runners-up | Wakefield Trinity |
Hull Kingston Rovers won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 16-13
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,823 and receipts were £3,090
It was also the second consecutive Yorkshire Cup final appearances by Wakefield Trinity, both of which would result in defeat
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 30 Aug 1974 | Castleford | 13-19 | York | Wheldon Road | 1778 | |||||
| 2 | Fri 30 Aug 1974 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 16-0 | Batley | Craven Park (1) | 3151 | |||||
| 3 | Sat 31 Aug 1974 | Leeds | 16-5 | Keighley | Headingley | 3410 | |||||
| 4 | Sun 1 Sep 1974 | Bradford Northern | 49-5 | Huddersfield | Odsal | 4003 | |||||
| 5 | Sun 1 Sep 1974 | Bramley | 52-17 | Doncaster | McLaren Field | 800 | |||||
| 6 | Sun 1 Sep 1974 | Dewsbury | 12-15 | Featherstone Rovers | Crown Flatt | 3320 | |||||
| 7 | Sun 1 Sep 1974 | New Hunslet | 14-17 | Hull F.C. | Elland Road Greyhound Stadium | 2000 | 1 | [5] | |||
| 8 | Sun 1 Sep 1974 | Wakefield Trinity | 22-12 | Halifax | Belle Vue | 2500 |
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 | Wed 4 Sep 1974 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 23-10 | Bramley | Craven Park (1) | 3086 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Tue 10 Sep 1974 | Hull F.C. | 12-8 | Leeds | Boulevard | 4000 | 3 | [5] | |||
| 3 | Thu 12 Sep 1974 | Wakefield Trinity | 24-14 | Featherstone Rovers | Belle Vue | 3300 | |||||
| 4 | Thu 19 Sep 1974 | York | 4-26 | Bradford Northern | Clarence Street | 2576 |
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 | Tue 24 Sep 1974 | Bradford Northern | 16-16 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Odsal | 2942 | |||||
| 2 | Tue 1 Oct 1974 | Hull F.C. | 6-8 | Wakefield Trinity | Boulevard | 4250 | [5] |
Semi-final - replays
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Wed 2 Oct 1974 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 5-3 | Bradford Northern | Craven Park (1) | 4047 |
Final
| Game No | Fixture date | Home team | Score | Away team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 26 October 1974 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 16-13 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | 5,823 | £3,090 | 4 | [6][7][4] |
Teams and scorers
| Hull Kingston Rovers | № | Wakefield Trinity |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Robert Smithies | 1 | Les Sheard |
| Clive Sullivan | 2 | David Smith |
| Bernard Watson | 3 | Terry "TC" Crook |
| Phillip "Phil" Coupland | 4 | John Hegarty |
| George Kirkpatrick | 5 | John Archer |
| Roger Millward (c) | 6 | David Topliss |
| Mike Stephenson | 7 | Joseph "Joe" Bonnar |
| John Millington | 8 | George Ballantyne |
| Dave Heslop | 9 | Raymond Handscombe |
| Paul Rose | 10 | Roy Bratt |
| Cliff Wallis | 11 | Trevor Skerrett |
| Neil Fox | 12 | Alan Tonks |
| Joseph "Joe" Brown | 13 | Mick Morgan (c) |
| Gerald "Ged" Dunn (for Clive Sullivan) | 14 | Neil Goodwin (for Alan Tonks) |
| Ian Madley (for Neil Fox) | 15 | Ernest Holmes (for Neil Goodwin) |
| ?? | Coach | Peter Fox |
| 16 | score | 13 |
| 5 | HT | 7 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Gerald "Ged" Dunn (1) | T | David Smith (1) |
| Bernard Watson (2) | T | John Hegarty (1) |
| George Kirkpatrick (1) | T | Roy Bratt (1) |
| Goals | ||
| Neil Fox (2) | G | Terry "TC" Crook (2) |
| Referee | Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes) | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Roger Millward - Hull KR - stand-off | |
| sponsored by | ||
| Competition Sponsor | Esso |
Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point
The road to success
| First round | Second round | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 49 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 16 (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 16 (5) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull Kingston Rovers | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| New Hunslet | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played at this Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
2 * The score is given incorrectly as 0-10 by the John Player yearbook 1975–76[2] but as 23-10 by the RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and others
3 * The date is given as Wednesday 11 September by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but by the official Hull[5] archives as Tuesday 10 September.
4 * 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 (1975). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
- Frank Butler and Patrick Collins (1974). News of the World Football Annual 1974–75 - 88th year. News of the World Ltd.
- Frank Butler and Patrick Collins (1975). News of the World Football Annual 1975–76 - 89th year. News of the World Ltd.
- "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.