1989 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 18 | |||
| Winners | Bradford Northern | |||
| Runners-up | Featherstone Rovers | |||
| ||||
The 1989 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Bradford Northern won the trophy for the second time in three years, this time by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 20-14
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,607 and receipts were £50,775
For the first time, both semi-final matches resulted in draws, both requiring a replay.
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 eighteen.
This in turn resulted in the necessity to continue with a preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.
Competition and Results[1][2]
Preliminary Round
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Sun 27 Aug 1989 | Dewsbury | 18-17 | Wakefield Trinity | Crown Flatt | 2246 | ||||||
| P2 | Sun 27 Aug 1989 | Nottingham City | 6-56 | Hull F.C. | Harvey Hadden Stadium | 902 | 1 | [3] |
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Batley | 5-36 | Sheffield Eagles | Mount Pleasant | 1299 | ||||||
| 2 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Bramley | 12-54 | Hull KR | McLaren Field | 1545 | ||||||
| 3 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Dewsbury | 7-22 | Halifax | Crown Flatt | 3604 | ||||||
| 4 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Doncaster | 23-4 | Huddersfield | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | 2341 | ||||||
| 5 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Featherstone Rovers | 86-18 | Keighley | Post Office Road | 2209 | 2 | |||||
| 6 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Hull F.C. | 20-10 | Ryedale-York | Boulevard | 4317 | 3 | [3] | ||||
| 7 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Hunslet | 0-44 | Castleford | Elland Road | 3180 | ||||||
| 8 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Leeds | 8-15 | Bradford Northern | Headingley | 13214 |
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 27 Sep 1989 | Bradford Northern | 19-6 | Sheffield Eagles | Odsal | 4210 | |||||
| 2 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Castleford | 28-12 | Hull KR | Wheldon Road | 6250 | |||||
| 3 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Featherstone Rovers | 37-22 | Doncaster | Post Office Road | 3526 | |||||
| 4 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Halifax | 13-2 | Hull F.C. | Thrum Hall | 8087 | [3] |
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 | Thu 5 Oct 1989 | Halifax | 16-16 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | 9454 | |||||
| 2 | Thu 12 Oct 1989 | Featherstone Rovers | 18-18 | Castleford | Post Office Road | 6227 |
Semi-Final - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Sun 15 Oct 1989 | Bradford Northern | 26-4 | Halifax | Odsal | 12748 | ||||||
| R2 | Sun 22 Oct 1989 | Castleford | 26-28 | Featherstone Rovers | Wheldon Road | 9065 |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 5 November 1989 | Bradford Northern | 20-14 | Featherstone Rovers | Headingley | 12,607 | £50,775 | 4 | [2][4][5] |
Teams and Scorers[1][4]
| Bradford Northern | № | Featherstone Rovers |
|---|---|---|
| teams | ||
| Ian Wilkinson | 1 | Chris Bibb |
| Gerry Cordle | 2 | Barry Drummond |
| Steve McGowan | 3 | Iva Ropati |
| Roger Simpson | 4 | Paul Newlove |
| Richard Francis | 5 | Alan Banks |
| Ivan Henjak | 6 | Ian Smales |
| Paul Harkin | 7 | Deryck Fox (c) |
| Kelvin Skerrett | 8 | Jeff Grayshon |
| Glenn Barraclough | 9 | Trevor Clark |
| Jon Hamer | 10 | Glenn Bell |
| David Hobbs (c) | 11 | Price |
| Karl Fairbank | 12 | Glen Booth |
| John Pendlebury | 13 | Peter Smith |
| Keith Mumby (for Ivan Henjak 13m) | 14 | Alan Dakin (for Glenn Bell 51m) |
| Paul Medley (for Jon Hamer 9m) | 15 | Andy Fisher (for Glen Booth 51m) |
| Ron Willey | Coach | Peter Fox |
| 20 | score | 14 |
| 12 | HT | 10 |
| Scorers | ||
| Tries | ||
| Gerry Cordle (2) | T | Iva Ropati (1) |
| Paul Harkin (2) | T | Peter Smith (1) |
| Goals | ||
| David Hobbs (2) | G | Deryck Fox (3) |
| Referee | Robin Whitfield (Widnes) | |
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Paul Harkin - Bradford Northern - Scrum-half/Halfback | |
| sponsored by | ||
| Competition Sponsor | John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster |
Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
The road to success
The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results
| First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull F.C. | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ryedale-York | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 16 (4) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 16 (26) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sheffield Eagles | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sheffield Eagles | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Doncaster | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Featherstone Rovers | 18 (28) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 18 (26) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castleford | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup game to be played by Mansfield Marksman, newly named and re-formed as Nottingham City and the first at their new stadium
2 * The second highest score in a Yorkshire Cup match to date
3 * The first Yorkshire Cup game to be played by newly named and re-formed Ryedale-York
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)
See also
- 1989-90 Rugby Football League season
- Rugby league county cups
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rugby League Project".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "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.
- ↑ Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1989. YCRL Committee.