1974 Yorkshire Cup

1974-75 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1973	Seasons	1975 >

The 1974 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-seventh occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Hull KR won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 16-13
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,823 and receipts were £3,090
It was also the second consecutive Yorkshire Cup final appearances by Wakefield Trinity, both of which would result in defeat

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]^[3]^[4]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs

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

1	Fri 30 Aug 1974	Castleford	13-19	York	Wheldon Road	1778
2	Fri 30 Aug 1974	Hull KR	16-0	Batley	Craven Park (1)	3151
3	Sat 31 Aug 1974	Leeds	16-5	Keighley	Headingley	3410
4	Sun 1 Sep 1974	Bradford Northern	49-5	Huddersfield	Odsal	4003
5	Sun 1 Sep 1974	Bramley	52-17	Doncaster	McLaren Field	800
6	Sun 1 Sep 1974	Dewsbury	12-15	Featherstone Rovers	Crown Flatt	3320
7	Sun 1 Sep 1974	New Hunslet	14-17	Hull F.C.	Elland Road Greyhound Stadium	2000	1	^[5]
8	Sun 1 Sep 1974	Wakefield Trinity	22-12	Halifax	Belle Vue	2500

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

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

1	Wed 4 Sep 1974	Hull KR	23-10	Bramley	Craven Park (1)	3086	2
2	Tue 10 Sep 1974	Hull F.C.	12-8	Leeds	Boulevard	4000	3	^[5]
3	Thu 12 Sep 1974	Wakefield Trinity	24-14	Featherstone Rovers	Belle Vue	3300
4	Thu 19 Sep 1974	York	4-26	Bradford Northern	Clarence Street	2576

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

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

1	Tue 24 Sep 1974	Bradford Northern	16-16	Hull KR	Odsal	2942
2	Tue 1 Oct 1974	Hull F.C.	6-8	Wakefield Trinity	Boulevard	4250	^[5]

Semi-Final - Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

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

R	Wed 2 Oct 1974	Hull KR		5-3		Bradford Northern	Craven Park (1)	4047

Final

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

	Saturday 26 October 1974	Hull KR		16-13		Wakefield Trinity	Headingley	5,823	£3,090	4	^[6]^[7]^[4]

Teams and Scorers^[7]^[2]

Hull KR	№	Wakefield Trinity

	teams
Robert Smithies	1	Les Sheard
Clive Sullivan	2	David Smith
Bernard Watson	3	Terry "TC" Crook
Phillip "Phil" Coupland	4	John Hegarty
George Kirkpatrick	5	John Archer
Roger Millward	6	David Topliss
Mike Stephenson	7	Joseph "Joe" Bonnar
John Millington	8	George Ballantyne
Dave Heslop	9	Ray Handscombe
Paul Rose	10	Roy Bratt
Cliff Wallis	11	Trevor Skerrett
Neil Fox	12	Alan Tonks
Joseph "Joe" Brown	13	Mick Morgan (c)
Gerald "Ged" Dunn (for Clive Sullivan)	14	Neil Goodwin (for Alan Tonks)
Ian Madley (for Neil Fox)	15	Ernest Holmes (for Neil Goodwin)
??	Coach	Peter Fox

16	score	13
5	HT	7

	Scorers
	Tries
Gerald "Ged" Dunn (1)	T	David Smith (1)
Bernard Watson (2)	T	John Hegarty (1)
George Kirkpatrick (1)	T	Roy Bratt (1)
	Goals
Neil Fox (2)	G	Terry "TC" Crook (2)
Referee		Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Roger Millward - Hull KR - stand-off/five-eighth
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


Castleford	13

York	19
		York	4

		Bradford Northern	26
Bradford Northern	49

Huddersfield	5
				Bradford Northern	16 (3)

				Hull KR	16 (5)
Hull KR	16

Batley	0
		Hull KR	23

		Bramley	10
Bramley	52

Doncaster	17
						Hull KR	16

						Wakefield Trinity	13
New Hunslet	14

Hull F.C.	17
		Hull F.C.	12

		Leeds	8
Leeds	16

Keighley	5
				Hull F.C.	6

				Wakefield Trinity	8
Wakefield Trinity	22

Halifax	12
		Wakefield Trinity	24

		Featherstone Rovers	14
Dewsbury	12

Featherstone Rovers	15

Notes and comments

1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played at this Elland Road Greyhound Stadium
2 * The score is given incorrectly as 0-10 by the John Player yearbook 1975-76^[2] but as 23-10 by the RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1]> and others
3 * The date is given as Wednesday 11 September by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but by the official Hull^[5] archives as Tuesday 10 September.
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)

References

1 2 3 "Rugby League Project".
1 2 3 Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1975). John Player Yearbook 1975-76. Queen Anne Press.
↑ Frank Butler and Patrick Collins (1974). News of the World Football Annual 1974-75 - 88th year. News of the World Ltd.
1 2 Frank Butler and Patrick Collins (1975). News of the World Football Annual 1975-76 - 89th year. News of the World Ltd.
1 2 3 4 "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
↑ 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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