1981 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 16 | |||
| Winners | Castleford | |||
| Runners-up | Bradford Northern | |||
| ||||
The 1981 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Castleford won the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 10-5
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,852 and receipts were £10,359
1981 is the start of an incredible eleven years in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977, will make eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning four and ending as runner-up in four occasions.
It is also the first of two successive years when Bradford Northern played in the Yorkshire Cup final, and in both cases they ended as runner-up
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]
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 14 Aug 1981 | Hull KR | 34-7 | Huddersfield | Craven Park (1) | 7030 | [3] | |||||
| 2 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | Castleford | 18-16 | Featherstone Rovers | Wheldon Road | 3092 | ||||||
| 3 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | Doncaster | 11-12 | Batley | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | 443 | ||||||
| 4 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | Halifax | 5-33 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | 4164 | ||||||
| 5 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | Hull F.C. | 16-19 | Leeds | Boulevard | 11194 | [4] | |||||
| 6 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | Keighley | 23-13 | Bramley | Lawkholme Lane | 1003 | ||||||
| 7 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | Wakefield Trinity | 18-6 | Dewsbury | Belle Vue | 2817 | ||||||
| 8 | Sun 16 Aug 1981 | York | 26-11 | Hunslet | Clarence Street | 3000 | 1 |
Round 2 - Quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun 23 Aug 1981 | Castleford | 42-30 | York | Wheldon Road | 3453 | |||||
| 2 | Sun 23 Aug 1981 | Hull KR | 22-12 | Wakefield Trinity | Craven Park (1) | 8907 | |||||
| 3 | Sun 23 Aug 1981 | Keighley | 12-28 | Batley | Lawkholme Lane | 1374 | |||||
| 4 | Sun 23 Aug 1981 | Leeds | 5-11 | Bradford Northern | Headingley | 7526 |
Round 3 – Semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 2 Sep 1981 | Castleford | 40-3 | Batley | Wheldon Road | 3014 | [5] | ||||
| 2 | Wed 2 Sep 1981 | Hull KR | 11-12 | Bradford Northern | Craven Park (1) | 9878 |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 3 October 1981 | Castleford | 10-5 | Bradford Northern | Headingley | 5,852 | £10,359 | 2 3 | [5][6][7] |
Teams and scorers[1][7]
| Castleford | № | Bradford Northern |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| George Claughton | 1 | Keith Mumby |
| Terrence "Terry" Richardson | 2 | David Barends |
| Steve Fenton | 3 | Gary Hale |
| Gary Hyde | 4 | Alan Parker |
| Geoffrey "Geoff" Morris | 5 | Les Gant |
| John Joyner | 6 | Ellery Hanley |
| Robert "Bob" Beardmore | 7 | Alan Redfearn |
| Alan Hardy | 8 | Jeff Grayshon |
| Robert Spurr | 9 | Brian Noble |
| Barry Johnson | 10 | Phil Sanderson |
| David Finch | 11 | Gary Van Bellan |
| Kevin Ward | 12 | Graham Idle |
| Andrew Timson | 13 | Alan Rathbone |
| ? | 14 | David Redfearn (for Phil Sanderson) |
| Paul Norton (for Alan Hardy) | 15 | Dick Jasiewicz (for Gary Van Bellan) |
| Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | Coach | Peter Fox |
| 10 | score | 5 |
| 5 | HT | 2 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Martin Ketteridge (1) | T | Alan Parker (1) |
| John Joyner (1) | T | |
| Goals | ||
| David Finch (2) | G | Ellery Hanley (1) |
| Referee | M. Robin Whitfield (Widnes) | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Barry Johnson - Castleford - Prop | |
| sponsored by | ||
| Competition Sponsor | Webster's Brewery (Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd) |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 33 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * Hunslet had moved to Leeds United's Elland Road at the start of the season
2 * The attendance is given as 5,876 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[6] and 1990-91[7] gives the attendance as twenty-four less at 5,852
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
- 1981-82 Rugby Football League season
- Rugby league county cups
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ HC&AC committee (1982). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1981-82 (price 60p). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1981-82".
- ↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Castleford RLFC Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup semi-final 1981. Castleford RLFC.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.