1972 Yorkshire Cup

1972-73 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1971	Seasons	1973 >

The 1972 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Leeds winning the trophy by beating Dewsbury by the score of 36-9 in what would be Dewsbury's last appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final
The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,806 and receipts were £2,659
This was Leeds third victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons

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]^[2]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Fri 25 Aug 1972	Huddersfield	26-5	Doncaster	Fartown
2	Fri 25 Aug 1972	Hull F.C.	8-19	Leeds	Boulevard	^[3]
3	Sat 26 Aug 1972	Bramley	16-9	York	McLaren Field
4	Sun 27 Aug 1972	Wakefield Trinity	38-17	Keighley	Belle Vue	^[4]
5	Sun 27 Aug 1972	Dewsbury	19-5	Castleford	Crown Flatt
6	Sun 27 Aug 1972	Featherstone Rovers	38-8	Batley	Post Office Road
7	Sun 27 Aug 1972	Hull KR	36-27	Bradford Northern	Craven Park (1)
8	Sun 27 Aug 1972	Hunslet	8-76	Halifax	Parkside

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Ref

1	Wed 5 Sep 1972	Leeds	36-5	Featherstone Rovers	Headingley
2	Wed 6 Sep 1972	Bramley	8-20	Dewsbury	McLaren Field
3	Wed 6 Sep 1972	Huddersfield	12-8	Hull KR	Fartown
4	Thu 7 Sep 1972	Wakefield Trinity	9-11	Halifax	Belle Vue	^[4]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Wed 20 Sep 1972	Dewsbury	19-10	Halifax	Crown Flatt
2	Wed 20 Sep 1972	Leeds	26-13	Huddersfield	Headingley

Final

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

	Saturday 7 October 1972	Leeds		36-9		Dewsbury	Odsal	7,806	£2,659	1	^[5]^[6]

Teams and Scorers^[6]

Leeds	№	Dewsbury

	teams
John Holmes	1	Adrian Rushton
Alan Smith	2	Greg Ashcroft
Syd Hynes	3	Alan Childe
Les Dyl	4	Terry Day
John Atkinson	5	Jeff Yorward?
Alan Hardisty	6	Allan Agar
Keith Hepworth	7	Alan Bates
Terry Clawson	8	John Bell?
David Ward	9	Mike "Stevo" Stephenson
Bill Ramsey	10	Trevor "Dick" Lowe
Phil Cookson	11	Jeff Grayshon
Graham Eccles	12	John Bates
Ray Batten	13	Steve Hankins
John Langley (for Keith Hepworth)	14	Steve Lee (for John Bates)
Tony Fisher (for Terry Clawson)	15	Harry Beverley (for John Bell)
Derek Turner	Coach	Tommy Smales

36	score	9
15	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
John Holmes (3)	T	Greg Ashcroft (1)
Les Dyl (2)	T
John Atkinson	T
Alan Hardisty (1)	T
Graham Eccles (1)	T
	Goals
Syd Hynes (1)	G	Alan Bates (3)
Terry Clawson (5)	G
Referee		Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		John Holmes - Leeds - fullback
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		Esso

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


Hull F.C.	8

Leeds	19
		Leeds	36

		Featherstone Rovers	5
Featherstone Rovers	38

Batley	8
				Leeds	26

				Huddersfield	13
Huddersfield	26

Doncaster	5
		Huddersfield	12

		Hull KR	8
Hull KR	36

Bradford Northern	27
						Leeds	36

						Dewsbury	9
Bramley	16

York	9
		Bramley	8

		Dewsbury	20
Dewsbury	19

Castleford	5
				Dewsbury	19

				Halifax	10
Wakefield Trinity	38

Keighley	7
		Wakefield Trinity	9

		Halifax	11
Hunslet	8

Halifax	76

Notes and comments

1 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington

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.
↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
1 2 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.

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