1973 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Leeds | |||
| Runners-up | Wakefield Trinity | |||
| ||||
The 1973 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 7-2
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,621 and receipts were £3,728
This was Leeds' fourth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.
It was also the first of two 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 entants 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]
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 31 Aug 1973 | Castleford | 32-8 | York | Wheldon Road | 1697 | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 01 Sep 1973 | Batley | 23-8 | Hull KR | Mount Pleasant | 691 | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 01 Sep 1973 | Halifax | 15-17 | Keighley | Thrum Hall | 1352 | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 01 Sep 1973 | Hull F.C. | 8-10 | Huddersfield | Boulevard | 1800 | [3] | |||||
| 5 | Sat 01 Sep 1973 | Leeds | 30-5 | Dewsbury | Headingley | 5882 | ||||||
| 6 | Sun 02 Sep 1973 | Bradford Northern | 29-7 | New Hunslet | Odsal | 4418 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | Sun 02 Sep 1973 | Bramley | 4-19 | Featherstone Rovers | McLaren Field | 1950 | ||||||
| 8 | Sun 02 Sep 1973 | Wakefield Trinity | 39-7 | Doncaster | Belle Vue | 2548 |
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 | Fri 07 Sep 1973 | Castleford | 29-8 | Huddersfield | Wheldon Road | 1700 | |||||
| 2 | Sat 08 Sep 1973 | Batley | 2-27 | Leeds | Mount Pleasant | 2542 | |||||
| 3 | Sun 09 Sep 1973 | Bradford Northern | 27-14 | Featherstone Rovers | Odsal | 5369 | |||||
| 4 | Sun 09 Sep 1973 | Keighley | 4-39 | Wakefield Trinity | Lawkholme Lane | 2620 |
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 25 Sep 1973 | Leeds | 10-5 | Bradford Northern | Headingley | 6416 | |||||
| 2 | Tue 26 Sep 1973 | Wakefield Trinity | 19-18 | Castleford | Belle Vue | 4642 |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 20 October 1973 | Leeds | 7-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | 7,621 | £3,728 | 2 3 | [4][5][6] |
Teams and Scorers[5][2]
| Leeds | № | Wakefield Trinity |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| John Holmes | 1 | Geoff Wraith |
| Langley | 2 | David Smith |
| Syd Hynes | 3 | Terry "TC" Crook |
| Les Dyl | 4 | John Hegarty |
| John Atkinson | 5 | Barry Parker |
| Alan Hardisty | 6 | David Topliss |
| Keith Hepworth | 7 | Joseph "Joe" Bonnar |
| David Jeanes | 8 | Rob Valentine |
| David Ward | 9 | Mick Morgan (c) |
| Terry Clawson | 10 | Roy Bratt |
| Graham Eccles | 11 | David Knowles |
| Phil Cookson | 12 | Ken Endersby |
| Ray Batten | 13 | Ernest Holmes |
| Marshall (for Langley) | 14 | Les Sheard (for Geoff Wraith 33m) |
| Bill Ramsey | 15 | George Ballantyne (for David Knowles 57m) |
| Eric Ashton | Coach | Neil Fox |
| 7 | score | 2 |
| 5 | HT | 2 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Langley (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| Marshall (1) | G | Terry "TC" Crook (1) |
| Syd Hynes (1) | G | |
| Referee | Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes) | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Keith Hepworth - Leeds - Scrum-half/Halfback | |
| sponsored by | ||
| Competition Sponsor | Esso |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
The road to success
| First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
| New Hunslet | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by the newly re-formed New Hunslet club
2 * The attendance is given as 7,621 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5] but the John Player Yearbook 1974-75[2] gives the attendance at 7,565
3 * 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
- 1973-74 Northern Rugby Football League season
- Rugby league county cups
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1975). John Player Yearbook 1974-75. Queen Anne Press.
- ↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
- ↑ Frank Butler and Patrick Collins (1974). News of the World Football Annual 1974-75 - 88th year. News of the World Ltd.