1971 Yorkshire Cup

1971-72 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

14 or 15

Winners

Hull KR

Runners-up

Castleford

< 1970	Seasons	1972 >

The 1971 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fourth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Hull KR won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 11-7. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,536 and receipts were £1,589. The attendance was a Yorkshire Cup final record, the lowest ever, a record which would never be beaten. This is the second time in four seasons that Castleford, (who have never won the trophy, to date) finished as runner-up.

Competition and results^[1]^[2]

Round 1

Involved either 6 or 7 matches (with one or two byes) and either 14 or 15 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Notes	Ref

1	Sat 31 Jul 1971	Castleford	24-5	Batley	Wheldon Road
2	Sat 31 Jul 1971	Hull F.C.	9-2	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard		^[3]
3	Sun 1 Aug 1971	Doncaster	12-4	Bradford Northern	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
4	Sun 1 Aug 1971	Halifax	19-10	York	Thrum Hall
5	Sun 1 Aug 1971	Hunslet	10-17	Keighley	Parkside
6	Sun 1 Aug 1971	Wakefield Trinity	11-4	Huddersfield	Belle Vue		^[4]
7		Bramley	BYE	Leeds (Did Not Compete)		2
8		Hull KR	BYE	Dewsbury (Did Not Compete)		2

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Fri 6 Aug 1971	Castleford	13-10	Wakefield Trinity	Wheldon Road	^[4]
2	Fri 6 Aug 1971	Keighley	16-12	Hull F.C.	Lawkholme Lane	^[3]
3	Sun 8 Aug 1971	Bramley	18-12	Halifax	McLaren Field
4	Sun 8 Aug 1971	Doncaster	14-24	Hull KR	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Fri 13 Aug 1971	Castleford	12-7	Keighley	Wheldon Road	^[4]
2	Sun 15 Aug 1971	Hull KR	25-6	Bramley	Craven Park (1)

Final

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team		Score		Away Team	Venue	Att	Rec	Notes	Ref

	Saturday 21 August 1971	Hull KR		11-7		Castleford	Belle Vue	5,536	£1,589	2	^[5]^[6]

Teams and Scorers^[6]

Hull KR	№	Castleford

	Teams
Ian Markham	1	Derek Edwards
Mike Stephenson	2	Derek Foster
Phillip "Phil" Coupland	3	Steve 'Knocker' Norton
George Kirkpatrick	4	Keith Worsley
Paul Longstaff	5	Alan Lowndes
Roger Millward	6	Danny Hargrave (David Hargrave?)
Paul Daley	7	Gary Stephens
Steve Wiley	8	Dennis Hartley
Peter Flanagan	9	Tony Miller
John Millington	10	Ian Van Bellen
Cliff Wallis	11	Brian Lockwood
Eric Palmer	12	Alan Dickinson
Joe Brown	13	Graham Blakeway
John Moore	14	Glyn Jones
Colin Cooper (for Eric Palmer)	15	Alan Ackroyd (for Ian Van Bellen)
Johnny Whiteley	Coach	Harry Poole

11	score	7
7	HT	3

	Scorers
	Tries
Paul Longstaff (1)	T	Derek Foster (1)
	Goals
Roger Millward (4)	G	Alan Ackroyd (2)
Referee		Alex Givvons (Oldham)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Ian Markham - Hull KR - fullback
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Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

The road to success

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


Doncaster	12

Bradford Northern	4
		Doncaster	14

		Hull KR	24
Hull KR

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				Hull KR	25

				Bramley	6
Bramley

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		Bramley	18

		Halifax	12
Halifax	19

York	10
						Hull KR	11

						Castleford	7
Castleford	24

Batley	5
		Castleford	13

		Wakefield Trinity	10
Wakefield Trinity	11

Huddersfield	4
				Castleford	12

				Keighley	7
Hunslet	10

Keighley	17
		Keighley	16

		Hull F.C.	12
Hull F.C.	9

Featherstone Rovers	2

Notes and comments

1 * Leeds did not take part this season due to a dispute with the Yorkshire County Committee.^[7]
2 * Bramley and Hull KR proceeded to the second round, whereas Dewsbury did not, however I am unable to find any record of these teams for the first round. Can anyone help
3 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield

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)

References

↑ "Rugby League Project".
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
1 2 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
1 2 3 J C Lindley and D W Armitage (1973). 100 Years of Rugby. The History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973. Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
↑ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
1 2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
↑ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1974-75. Queen Anne Press.

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