1988–89 Yorkshire Cup

The 1988–89 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup rugby league competition was held.

1988–89 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams18
WinnersLeeds
Runners-upCastleford

Leeds won the trophy by beating the previous season's runner-up, Castleford, with a score of 33-12.
The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,968 and receipts were £83,591.
This was the sixth time in an eleven-year period in which Castleford, previously only winners once (in 1977), made eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning four and finishing runners-up on the other four occasions. It was also the second season in succession that Castleford appeared, and lost, in the final within that eleven-year period.

Background

In the 1988–89 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 eighteen.
As a result, a preliminary round was required to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.

Competition and results

[1]

Preliminary round

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
P1Wed 31 Aug 1988Bramley16-38LeedsMcLaren Field4,258
P2Wed 31 Aug 1988Sheffield Eagles8-28Wakefield TrinityOwlerton Stadium1,356

Round 1

Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Sun 18 Sep 1988Castleford94-12HuddersfieldWheldon Road3,1441 2
2Sun 18 Sep 1988Featherstone Rovers38-8DoncasterPost Office Road2,682
3Sun 18 Sep 1988Halifax36-14BatleyThrum Hall5,370
4Sun 18 Sep 1988Hull F.C.53-0HunsletBoulevard3,153[2]
5Sun 18 Sep 1988Keighley22-28Hull Kingston RoversLawkholme Lane1,596
6Sun 18 Sep 1988Leeds24-21Bradford NorthernHeadingley10,992
7Sun 18 Sep 1988Wakefield Trinity46-20DewsburyBelle Vue3,733
8Sun 18 Sep 1988York25-4Mansfield MarksmanClarence Street1,370

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Tue 27 Sep 1988Hull F.C.18-0Featherstone RoversBoulevard4,010[2]
2Wed 28 Sep 1988Castleford40-14YorkWheldon Road3,155
3Wed 28 Sep 1988Halifax24-2Hull Kingston RoversThrum Hall6,296
4Wed 28 Sep 1988Leeds15-10Wakefield TrinityHeadingley11,150

Round 3 – Semi-finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 5 Oct 1988Halifax8-12CastlefordThrum Hall8,432
2Wed 5 Oct 1988Leeds12-8Hull F.C.Headingley10,384[2]

Final
Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Sunday 16 October 1988Leeds33-12CastlefordElland Road22,968£83.5913 4[3][4][5]

Teams and scorers

[1][2][4]

Leeds № Castleford
teams
Gary Spencer1Gary Belcher
Andrew Ettingshausen2David Plange
Garry Schofield3Tony Marchant
David Stephenson4Giles Boothroyd
Carl Gibson5Chris Chapman
Cliff Lyons6Grant Anderson
Ray Ashton7Robert "Bob" Beardmore
Lee Crooks8Kevin Ward
Colin Maskill9Kevin Beardmore
Hugh Waddell10Keith England
Roy Powell11Martin Ketteridge
Mark Brooke-Cowden12Ron Gibbs
David Heron13John Joyner
Paul Medley (for Mark Brooke-Cowden)14David Roockley (for Chris Chapman)
Sam Backo (for Hugh Waddell)15Dean Sampson (for David Roockley)
Malcolm "Mal" ReillyCoachDarryl van der Velde
33score12
15HT12
Scorers
Tries
Garry Schofield (2)TGiles Boothroyd (1)
Carl Gibson (2)TJohn Joyner (1)
Paul Medley (1)T
Goals
David Stephenson (6)GMartin Ketteridge (2)
Drop Goals
Garry Schofield (1)DG
RefereeRobin Whitfield (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the matchCliff Lyons - Leeds - stand-off
sponsored by
Competition SponsorJohn Smith's Brewery Tadcaster

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

The road to success

The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results

First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Leeds 24
Bradford Northern 21
Leeds 15
Wakefield Trinity 10
Wakefield Trinity 46
Dewsbury 20
Leeds 12
Hull F.C. 8
Hull F.C. 53
Hunslet 0
Hull F.C. 18
Featherstone Rovers 0
Featherstone Rovers 38
Doncaster 8
Leeds 33
Castleford 12
Halifax 36
Batley 14
Halifax 24
Hull Kingston Rovers 2
Keighley 22
Hull Kingston Rovers 28
Halifax 8
Castleford 12
Castleford 94
Huddersfield 12
Castleford 40
York 14
York 25
Mansfield Marksman 4

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by the newly renamed Huddersfield who dropped the "Barracudas"'s suffix
2 * The record score (and highest winning margin) at the time for a Yorkshire Cup match, beating the previous record win of 79-5 (1948)
3 * The receipts are given as £76,658 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[3] and 1990-91[4] but the details given in a section of the Huddersfield v Ryedale-York match programme[6][7] for the preliminary round on Sunday 23 August 1992 (and all verified by The Rugby League Record Keepers Club), show the receipts as £83,591

General information about the Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition

The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from Yorkshire. However teams were sometimes included 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 to May. This competition always took place early in the season, in Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception 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. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  3. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  4. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  5. Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1988. YCRL Committee.
  6. Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.
  7. "Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).
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