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1975–76 Yorkshire Cup

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The 1975–76 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

1975–76 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersLeeds
Runners-upHull Kingston Rovers

Leeds won the trophy by beating Hull Kingston Rovers by the score of 15-11

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,743 and receipts were £3,617

This was Leeds' fifth victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.

Background

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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 sixteen.

This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.

Competition and results

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Round 1

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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 29 Aug 1975 Castleford 16-16 Hull F.C. Wheldon Road [3]
2 Sat 30 Aug 1975 Huddersfield 7-19 Featherstone Rovers Fartown
3 Sat 30 Aug 1975 Leeds 32-5 Halifax Headingley
4 Sun 31 Aug 1975 Bradford Northern 28-12 Bramley Odsal
5 Sun 31 Aug 1975 Doncaster 11-18 Keighley Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
6 Sun 31 Aug 1975 Hull Kingston Rovers 26-9 Wakefield Trinity Craven Park (1)
7 Sun 31 Aug 1975 New Hunslet 20-5 Batley Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
8 Sun 31 Aug 1975 York 18-12 Dewsbury Clarence Street

Round 1 - replays

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Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
R Tue 2 Sep 1975 Hull F.C. 15-16 Castleford Boulevard [3]

Round 2 - Quarter-finals

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Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 13 Sep 1975 Bradford Northern 2-22 Leeds Odsal
2 Sun 14 Sep 1975 Featherstone Rovers 8-5 Castleford Post Office Road
3 Sun 14 Sep 1975 New Hunslet 7-15 Hull Kingston Rovers Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
4 Sun 14 Sep 1975 York 13-16 Keighley Clarence Street

Round 3 – Semi-finals

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Tue 23 Sep 1975 Hull Kingston Rovers 19-16 Featherstone Rovers Craven Park (1)
2 Wed 1 Oct 1975 Keighley 2-11 Leeds Lawkholme Lane

Final

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Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 15 November 1975 Leeds 15-11 Hull Kingston Rovers Headingley 5,743 £3,617 1 2 [4][5]

Teams and scorers

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Leeds № Hull Kingston Rovers
teams
Marshall 1 Richard Wallace
Alan Smith 2 Gerald "Ged" Dunn
Neil Hague 3 Alan Burwell
Les Dyl 4 Bernard Watson
John Atkinson 5 Clive Sullivan
John Holmes 6 Glyn Turner
Syd Hynes 7 Roger Millward
Mick Harrison 8 John Millington
Ian Payne 9 Clifford "Cliff" Dickinson
Steve Pitchford 10 Steve Lyons
Graham Eccles 11 Paul Rose
Ray Batten 12 Neil Fox
Phil Cookson 13 Mick Hughes/R. Hughes
Christopher Sanderson 14 ?
Roy Dickinson (for Steve Pitchford) 15 Roy Holdstock (for Hughes)
Syd Hynes Coach Arthur Bunting
15 score 11
7 HT 3
Scorers
Tries
Les Dyl (1) T Clive Sullivan (1)
Phil Cookson (1) T Neil Fox (1)
Goals
John Holmes (4) G Neil Fox (2)
Drop Goals
John Holmes (1) DG Roger Millward (1)
Referee J. V. Moss (Manchester)
Man of the match Neil Fox - Hull KR - Second-row
sponsored by Esso
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match

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

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The road to success

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First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
York 18
Dewsbury 12
York 13
Keighley 16
Doncaster 11
Keighley 18
Keighley 2
Leeds 11
Bradford Northern 28
Bramley 12
Bradford Northern 2
Leeds 22
Leeds 32
Halifax 5
Leeds 15
Hull Kingston Rovers 1
New Hunslet 20
Batley 5
New Hunslet 7
Hull Kingston Rovers 15
Hull Kingston Rovers 26
Wakefield Trinity 9
Hull Kingston Rovers 19
Featherstone Rovers 16
Huddersfield 7
Featherstone Rovers 19
Featherstone Rovers 8
Castleford 5
Castleford 16 (16)
Hull F.C. 16 (15)

Notes and comments

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1 * The attendance is given as 5,304 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[4] and 1990-91[5] gives the attendance at 5,734

2 * 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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1975). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  5. ^ a b c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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