1979 Yorkshire Cup

1979-80 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1978	Seasons	1980 >

The 1979 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Leeds winning the trophy by beating Halifax by the score of 15-6
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 9,137 and receipts were £9,999
This was Leeds' seventh victory (and the first of two consecutive victories for the third time within the sequence) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.
This would be Halifax's last appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final, giving them a total record of five wins and four defeats.

Background

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^[1]

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs

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

1	Fri 17 Aug 1979	Bramley	5-12	Halifax	McLaren Field
2	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Leeds	26-14	Castleford	Headingley
3	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Dewsbury	16-15	York	Crown Flatt
4	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Huddersfield	7-22	Bradford Northern	Fartown
5	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Hull F.C.	13-19	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard		^[2]
6	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Hunslet	33-12	Keighley	Mount Pleasant	1
7	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Wakefield Trinity	28-16	Hull KR	Belle Vue
8	Sun 19 Aug 1979	Batley	26-14	Doncaster	venue unknown

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Sun 26 Aug 1979	Batley	6-29	Leeds	Mount Pleasant
2	Sun 26 Aug 1979	Bradford Northern	5-30	Wakefield Trinity	Odsal
3	Sun 26 Aug 1979	Featherstone Rovers	16-17	Dewsbury	Post Office Road
4	Sun 26 Aug 1979	Halifax	23-12	Hunslet	Thrum Hall

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue

1	Wed 19 Sep 1979	Wakefield Trinity	7-12	Leeds	Belle Vue
2	Thu 20 Sep 1979	Halifax	5-3	Dewsbury	Thrum Hall

Final

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

	Saturday 27 October 1979	Leeds		15-6		Halifax	Headingley	9,137	£9,999	2 3	^[3]^[4]

Teams and Scorers^[4]

Leeds	№	Halifax

	teams
Neil Hague	1	Jimmy Birts
Alan Smith	2	Howard
David Smith	3	Graham Garrod
Les Dyl	4	David Cholmondeley
John Atkinson	5	Keith Waites
John Holmes	6	Bob Blacker
Kevin Dick	7	Terry Langton
Roy Dickinson	8	Jarvis
David Ward	9	Dean Raistrick
Steve Pitchford	10	Wood
Graham Eccles	11	Mick Scott
David Heron	12	Sharp
Phil Cookson	13	David "Buzzy" Busfield
	14	Mick Snee (for Howard)
Adams (for David Heron)	15	Callon (for Jarvis)
Syd Hynes	Coach	Maurice Bamford

15	score	6
10	HT	6

	Scorers
	Tries
Alan Smith (2)	T
David Smith (1)	T
	Goals
Kevin Dick (3)	G	Birts (3)
Referee		Michael "Mick" J. Naughton (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Alan Smith - Leeds - wing
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


Huddersfield	7

Bradford Northern	22
		Bradford Northern	5

		Wakefield Trinity	30
Wakefield Trinity	28

Hull KR	16
				Wakefield Trinity	7

				Leeds	12
Batley	26

Doncaster	14
		Batley	6

		Leeds	29
Leeds	26

Castleford	14
						Leeds	15

						Halifax	6
Bramley	5

Halifax	12
		Halifax	23

		Hunslet	12
Hunslet	33

Keighley	12
				Halifax	5

				Dewsbury	3
Hull F.C.	13

Featherstone Rovers	19
		Featherstone Rovers	16

		Dewsbury	17
Dewsbury	16

York	15

Notes and comments

1 * This was the first Yorkshire Cup match played by the renamed Hunslet at their "new" temporary home at Batley's Mount Pleasant after the owners of Elland Road Greyhound Stadium suddenly closed the previous ground
2 * The attendance is given as 9,134 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92^[3] and 1990-91^[4] gives the attendance as three more at 9,137
3 * 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 "Rugby League Project".
↑ "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
1 2 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
1 2 3 Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

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