1983 Yorkshire Cup

1983-84 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1982	Seasons	1984 >

The 1983 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. 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.

Hull F.C. won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 13-2 in the final. The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 14,049 and receipts were £33,572. This is the second of three successive Yorkshire Cup final victories by Hull. It is also the second time in the incredible eleven year period in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977, will make eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning on four and ending as runner-up on four occasions.

Background

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).

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	Att	Ref

1	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Batley	14-30	Leeds	Mount Pleasant	2111
2	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Bradford Northern	25-22	Hull KR	Odsal	4356
3	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Castleford	36-20	Huddersfield	Wheldon Road	2499
4	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Dewsbury	8-18	Keighley	Crown Flatt	518
5	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Doncaster	16-12	Bramley	Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield	357
6	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Hull F.C.	24-8	Featherstone Rovers	Boulevard	10168	^[2]
7	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Hunslet	11-21	York	Elland Road	1061
8	Sun 4 Sep 1983	Wakefield Trinity	18-10	Halifax	Belle Vue	2195

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

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

1	Wed 14 Sep 1983	Bradford Northern	8-12	Castleford	Odsal	4684
2	Wed 14 Sep 1983	Keighley	8-30	Hull F.C.	Lawkholme Lane	2503	^[2]
3	Wed 14 Sep 1983	Wakefield Trinity	32-14	Doncaster	Belle Vue	1587
4	Wed 14 Sep 1983	York	16-24	Leeds	Clarence Street	1296

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

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

1	Fri 23 Sep 1983	Wakefield Trinity	12-34	Castleford	Belle Vue	5592
2	Wed 28 Sep 1983	Leeds	16-20	Hull F.C.	Headingley	10094	^[2]

Final

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

	Saturday 15 October 1983	Hull F.C.		13-2		Castleford	Elland Road	14,049	£33,572	1 2	^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[1]^[4]

Hull F.C.	№	Castleford

	teams
Gary Kemble	1	Darren Coen
Patrick Solal	2	Steve Fenton
Garry Schofield	3	Tony Marchant
James Leuluai	4	Gary Hyde
Dane O'Hara	5	John Kear
David Topliss ©	6	John Joyner
Tony Dean	7	Bob Beardmore ©
Phil Edmonds	8	Gary Connell
Ron Wileman	9	Stuart 'Corgi' Horton
Trevor Skerrett	10	Malcolm "Mal" Reilly
Wayne Proctor	11	Andrew Timson
Lee Crooks	12	Neil James
Mick Crane	13	Keith England
Fred Ah Kuoi	14	Ian Orum (for Gary Hyde)
Steve 'Knocker' Norton	15	Alan Hardy
Arthur Bunting	Coach	Malcolm "Mal" Reilly

13	score	2
4	HT	2

	Scorers
	Tries
Dane O'Hara (1)	T
Wayne Proctor (1)	T
Mick Crane (1)	T
	Goals
	G	Robert "Bob" Beardmore (1)
	Drop Goals
Mick Crane (1)	DG
Referee		William "Billy" H. Thompson (Huddersfield)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Mick Crane - Hull - loose forward/lock
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		Philips Video

Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

The road to success

First Round		Second Round		Semi Finals		Final


Hunslet	11

York	21
		York	16

		Leeds	24
Batley	14

Leeds	30
				Leeds	16

				Hull F.C.	20
Dewsbury	8

Keighley	18
		Keighley	8

		Hull F.C.	30
Hull F.C.	24

Featherstone Rovers	8
						Hull F.C.	13

						Castleford	2
Wakefield Trinity	18

Halifax	10
		Wakefield Trinity	32

		Doncaster	14
Doncaster	16

Bramley	12
				Wakefield Trinity	12

				Castleford	34
Bradford Northern	25

Hull KR	22
		Bradford Northern	8

		Castleford	12
Castleford	36

Huddersfield	20

Notes

1 * The venue is given as Headingley, Leeds by RUGBYLEAGUEproject^[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92^[3] and 1990-91^[4] and the match programme^[5] show this to be Elland Road, Leeds
2 * Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season

References

1 2 3 "Rugby League Project".
1 2 3 4 "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.
1 2 Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1981. YCRL Committee.

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