1992 Yorkshire Cup

1992–93 Yorkshire Cup
Structure Regional knockout championship
Teams 18
Winners Wakefield Trinity
Runners-up Sheffield Eagles

The 1992 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Wakefield Trinity won the trophy by beating Sheffield Eagles by the score of 29-16
The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,918 and receipts were £??

Background

This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants but one "leavers", Scarborough Pirates having folded after just one season and a large loss, and so the total of entries decreased by one from last season, to a total of 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]

Preliminary Round

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
P1Sun 23 Aug 1992Castleford Tigers10-16Bradford NorthernWheldon Road 49881
P2Sun 23 Aug 1992Huddersfield36-12Ryedale-YorkFartown16192Last ever competitive fixture at Fartown[2][3]

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 11 Sep 1992Sheffield Eagles34-14HalifaxDon Valley Stadium3596
2Sun 13 Sep 1992Bradford Northern34-22BramleyOdsal3108
3Sun 13 Sep 1992Featherstone Rovers40-8DewsburyPost Office Road24683
4Sun 13 Sep 1992Huddersfield16-8BatleyLeeds Road1714
5Sun 13 Sep 1992Hull F.C.14-6Hull Kingston RoversBoulevard8825[4]
6Sun 13 Sep 1992Leeds28-20HunsletHeadingley5952
7Sun 13 Sep 1992Nottingham City4-30Keighley CougarsHarvey Hadden Stadium327
8Sun 13 Sep 1992Wakefield Trinity54-14DoncasterBelle Vue3229

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1Wed 23 Sep 1992Bradford Northern8-17Sheffield EaglesOdsal3333
2Wed 23 Sep 1992Featherstone Rovers18-8HuddersfieldPost Office Road2385
3Wed 23 Sep 1992Hull F.C.26-16LeedsBoulevard6609[4]
4Wed 23 Sep 1992Wakefield Trinity22-16Keighley CougarsBelle Vue2508

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 06 Oct 1992Sheffield Eagles12-8Hull F.C.Don Valley Stadium3017[4]
2Wed 07 Oct 1992Featherstone Rovers8-22Wakefield TrinityPost Office Road5544

Final


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Sunday 18 October 1992Wakefield Trinity29-16Sheffield EaglesElland Road7,918??4[5]

Teams and Scorers[1]

Wakefield Trinity № Sheffield Eagles
teams
1
2
Andrew "Andy" Mason3
Peter Benson4Bruce McGuire
Andrew "Andy" Wilson5Mark Gamson
Nigel Wright6David Mycoe
Geoff Bagnall7
Gary Spencer8
Billy Conway9
Richard Slater10
Gary Price11
Darren Fritz12
13
Richard Goddard14
15
David ToplissCoachGary Hetherington
29score16
11HT0
Scorers
Tries
Geoff Bagnall (1)TBruce McGuire (2)
Andrew "Andy" Mason (1)TMark Gamson (1)
Gary Price (1)T
Richard Slater (1)T
Gary Spencer (1)T
Goals
Peter Benson (3)GDavid Mycoe (2)
Nigel Wright (1)G
Drop Goals
Nigel Wright (1)DG
Refereeunknown ()
White Rose man of the match?
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
            
Featherstone Rovers 40
Dewsbury 8
Featherstone Rovers 18
Huddersfield 8
Huddersfield 16
Batley 8
Featherstone Rovers 8
Wakefield Trinity 22
Wakefield Trinity 54
Doncaster 14
Wakefield Trinity 22
Keighley Cougars 16
Nottingham City 4
Keighley Cougars 30
Wakefield Trinity 29
Sheffield Eagles 16
Bradford Northern 34
Bramley 22
Bradford Northern 8
Sheffield Eagles 17
Sheffield Eagles 34
Halifax 14
Sheffield Eagles 12
Hull F.C. 8
Hull F.C. 14
Hull Kingston Rovers 6
Hull F.C. 26
Leeds 16
Leeds 28
Hull Kingston Rovers 20

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Castleford Tigers since renaming their stadium The Jungle
2 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Huddersfield since moving into Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road stadium
3 * Dewsbury had moved to Batley's Mount Pleasant while awaiting construction of their new stadium, but played no Yorkshire Cup matches at this temporary venue
4 * Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season

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)

Postscript

To date, this was the last season for the Yorkshire (and Lancashire Cup) competitions, which except for the break due to the two World Wars, had taken place annually since its inauguration in the 1905–06 season.
It was fitting that all the major players, with the possible exceptions of Keighley Cougars, Bramley, Doncaster and Sheffield Eagles had their name inscribed on the trophy, during the eighty-five occasions on which the tournament took place, and possible just as well the no "none-Yorkshire" club managed to win the trophy during that period! It was only after the two county finals had been played that it was announced that both competitions were to be scrapped; news which came as a major surprise and shock to the fans. The reasons given by the ruling body, the Rugby Football League, were that it was deemed the cup was adding to fixture congestion for more successful sides and also that a local county cup did not fit the modern image of Rugby League.

Records from the Yorkshire Cup competition[6][7]

Record Holder
In FinalRecord
Most appearances21Leeds
Most wins17Leeds
Most consecutive wins4Huddersfield1913-14, 14-15, 1919 Spring & 1919 Autumn
3Hull F.C.
2Bradford Northern (twice)
2Castleford
2Halifax
2Hull Kingston Rovers
2Leeds (3 times)
2Wakefield Trinity (twice)
Most consecutive appearances4Huddersfield1913-14, 14-15, 1919 Spring & 1919 Autumn
3Hull F.C. (twice)
3Wakefield Trinity
Highest Score34-8Leedsv Dewsbury 1972
Highest Agg score31-24Castlefordv Hull F.C. 1986
Lowest Agg score2-0on 4 occasions1920,25,42 & 1944
Widest margin30-2Huddersfieldv Hull F.C. 1914
Biggest Attendance36000 - Headingley)Bradford Northern v Huddersfield 1949
Smallest Attendance5536 - Belle VueCastleford v Hull Kingston Rovers 1971
Highest Receipts£83,591 - Elland RoadLeeds v Castleford 1988
Individual in a final
Most tries 4Stan MoorhouseHuddersfield v Leeds 1919
Most goals6David StephensonLeeds v Castleford Tigers 1988
Most points16 (4g+2t)Graham SteadmanCastleford Tigers v Bradford Northern 1991
14 (5g+1t)Martin KetteridgeCastleford Tigers v Hull F.C. 1986
Players Records in all finals
Most Appearances10Douglas ClarkHuddersfield 1909, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19 Spring, 19 Autumn, 23, 25 & 1926
Most Tries6Stan MoorhouseHuddersfield 1911, 14 & 1919 Autumn
6Stanley "Stan" SmithLeeds 1934, 35 & 1937
6Alan SmithLeeds 1968, 70, 79 & 1980
Most Goals19Neil FoxWakefield Trinity, Hull Kingston Rovers & Bradford Northern 1958, 60, 61, 64, 75 & 1978
Most Points53Neil Foxclubs/games as above
In competition
Highest Score6-100Nottingham Cityv Hull Kingston Rovers 1990
Other record scores at the time94-12Castlefordv Huddersfield 1988
8-76Hunsletv Halifax 1972
73-5Wakefield Trinityv Bradford Northern 1961
67-0Huddersfieldv Bramley 1913
68-2Bradfordv Bramley 1906
Highest score v junior club79-5Huddersfieldv Yorkshire Amateurs 1948
Highest aggregate score140-5Huddersfieldv Yorkshire Amateurs 1948

Entrants and number of cup wins

This table list all the semi-professional clubs which have entered the competition and the number (and dates) of their cup final wins, cup final runner-up spots, and losing semi-final aooearances.

No. cup winner No, runner-up No losing Semi-Final appearances
Acton & Willesden 0 0 0
Barrow 0 0 11943
Batley 11912 41909, 1922, 1924, 1952 81908, 1914, 1919, 1923, 1937, 1950, 1958, 1981
Bradford 11906 0 0
Bradford Northern 111940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1965, 1978, 1987, 1989 41913, 1981, 1982, 1991 101925, 1942, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1985, 1986
Bramley 0 0 51921, 1929, 1949, 1970, 1971
Brighouse Rangers 0 0 0
Castleford 51977, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1991 81948, 1950, 1968, 1971, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988 91928, 1932, 1934, 1947, 1955, 1965, 1973, 1980, 1989
Coventry 0 0 0
Dewsbury 31925, 1927, 1942 41918, 1921, 1940, 1972 161908, 1913, 1920, 1923, 1928, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1963, 1967, 1976, 1979, 1990
Doncaster 0 0 0
Featherstone Rovers 21939, 1959 81928, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1989 121925, 1940, 1952, 1961, 1962, 1975, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992
Halifax 51908, 1944, 1954, 1955, 1963 41905, 1907, 1941, 1979 161906, 1909, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1978, 1988, 1989
Huddersfield 121909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1926, 1931, 1938, 1950, 1952, 1957 81910, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1937, 1942, 1949, 1960 121933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1953, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1980
Hull F.C. 51923, 1969, 1982, 1983, 1984 121912, 1914, 1920, 1927, 1938, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1967, 1986 141907, 1910, 1918, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1988, 1992
Hull Kingston Rovers 71920, 1929, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1985 71906, 1911, 1933, 1962, 1975, 1980, 1984 101905, 1910, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1939, 1946, 1969, 1981, 1990
Hunslet 31905, 1907, 1962 61908, 1929, 1931, 1944, 1956, 1965 111911, 1912, 1914, 1920, 1936, 1938, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1953
New Hunslet 0 0 11976
Keighley Cougars 0 21943, 1951 71906, 1929, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1982
Leeds 171921, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1958, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1988 41919, 1947, 1961, 1964 161911, 1912, 1922, 1924, 1945, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1967, 1969, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1976, 1907,
Mansfield Marksman 0 0 0
Newcastle 0 0 0
Normanton 0 0 0
Oldham 0 0 0
Pontefract 0 0 0
St. Helens 0 0 0
Scarborough Pirates 0 0 0
Sheffield Eagles 0 11992 0
Wakefield Trinity 101910, 1924, 1946, 1947, 1951, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1992 101926, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1945, 1958, 1973, 1974, 1990 121907, 1909, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1930, 1938, 1948, 1979, 1983, 1991
Wigan 0 0 31941, 1942, 1944
Ryedale-York 31922, 1933, 1936 31935, 1957, 1978 71905, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1956, 1958, 1961

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Rugby League Project".
  2. ↑ "Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 v Ryedale-York" (PDF).
  3. ↑ Yorkshire Cup Prelim rd 1992 Huddersfield v Ryedale York. Match Programme. Huddersfield RLFC.
  4. 1 2 3 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  5. ↑ Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1992. YCRL Committee.
  6. ↑ Robert Gate (1991). Guinness Rugby League Fact Book. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-085112949 5.
  7. ↑ Spotter Series. Spotter book of Rugby League Facts. Dorset Publ.
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