1975–76 Yorkshire Cup

The 1975–76 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

1975–76 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersLeeds
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

Leeds won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 15-11

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,743 and receipts were £3,617

This was Leeds' fifth victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.

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

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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
1Fri 29 Aug 1975Castleford16-16Hull F.C.Wheldon Road[3]
2Sat 30 Aug 1975Huddersfield7-19Featherstone RoversFartown
3Sat 30 Aug 1975Leeds32-5HalifaxHeadingley
4Sun 31 Aug 1975Bradford Northern28-12BramleyOdsal
5Sun 31 Aug 1975Doncaster11-18KeighleyBentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
6Sun 31 Aug 1975Hull Kingston Rovers26-9Wakefield TrinityCraven Park (1)
7Sun 31 Aug 1975New Hunslet20-5BatleyElland Road Greyhound Stadium
8Sun 31 Aug 1975York18-12DewsburyClarence Street

Round 1 - replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
RTue 2 Sep 1975Hull F.C.15-16CastlefordBoulevard[3]

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sat 13 Sep 1975Bradford Northern2-22LeedsOdsal
2Sun 14 Sep 1975Featherstone Rovers8-5CastlefordPost Office Road
3Sun 14 Sep 1975New Hunslet7-15Hull Kingston RoversElland Road Greyhound Stadium
4Sun 14 Sep 1975York13-16KeighleyClarence Street

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 23 Sep 1975Hull Kingston Rovers19-16Featherstone RoversCraven Park (1)
2Wed 1 Oct 1975Keighley2-11LeedsLawkholme Lane

Final
Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 15 November 1975Leeds15-11Hull Kingston RoversHeadingley5,743£3,6171 2[4][5]

Teams and scorers
Leeds № Hull Kingston Rovers
teams
Marshall1Richard Wallace
Alan Smith2Gerald "Ged" Dunn
Neil Hague3Alan Burwell
Les Dyl4Bernard Watson
John Atkinson5Clive Sullivan
John Holmes6Glyn Turner
Syd Hynes7Roger Millward
Mick Harrison8John Millington
Ian Payne9Clifford "Cliff" Dickinson
Steve Pitchford10Steve Lyons
Graham Eccles11Paul Rose
Ray Batten12Neil Fox
Phil Cookson13Mick Hughes/R. Hughes
Christopher Sanderson14?
Roy Dickinson (for Steve Pitchford)15Roy Holdstock (for Hughes)
Syd HynesCoachArthur Bunting
15score11
7HT3
Scorers
Tries
Les Dyl (1)TClive Sullivan (1)
Phil Cookson (1)TNeil Fox (1)
Goals
John Holmes (4)GNeil Fox (2)
Drop Goals
John Holmes (1)DGRoger Millward (1)
RefereeJ. V. Moss (Manchester)
Man of the matchNeil Fox - Hull KR - Second-row
sponsored byEsso
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match

Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

[5]

The road to success
First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
York 18
Dewsbury 12
York 13
Keighley 16
Doncaster 11
Keighley 18
Keighley 2
Leeds 11
Bradford Northern 28
Bramley 12
Bradford Northern 2
Leeds 22
Leeds 32
Halifax 5
Leeds 15
Hull Kingston Rovers 1
New Hunslet 20
Batley 5
New Hunslet 7
Hull Kingston Rovers 15
Hull Kingston Rovers 26
Wakefield Trinity 9
Hull Kingston Rovers 19
Featherstone Rovers 16
Huddersfield 7
Featherstone Rovers 19
Featherstone Rovers 8
Castleford 5
Castleford 16 (16)
Hull F.C. 16 (15)

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 5,304 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5] gives the attendance at 5,734

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

References
  1. "Rugby League Project".
  2. Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1975). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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