1985 Yorkshire Cup

Structure

Regional knockout championship

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1984	Seasons	1986 >

The 1985 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-eighth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no "leavers", but one new entants in the form of new-comers to the league, Sheffield Eagles and so the total of entries increases by one up to seventeen. This in turn resulted in the necessity to introduce a preliminary round to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.

Last year's runner-up, Hull KR returned to the finals stage to win the trophy this year by beating Castleford by the score of 22-18. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,686 and receipts were £36,327. It was the third 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 Football League's 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]

Preliminary Round

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

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

P1	Wed 4 Sep 1985	Castleford		38-6		Sheffield Eagles	Wheldon Road	1748		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 15 Sep 1985	Batley	10-14	Dewsbury	Mount Pleasant	2148
2	Sun 15 Sep 1985	Bradford Northern	40-15	Wakefield Trinity	Odsal	3180
3	Sun 15 Sep 1985	Bramley	22-10	Doncaster	McLaren Field	582
4	Sun 15 Sep 1985	Castleford	60-2	Hunslet	Wheldon Road	2708
5	Sun 15 Sep 1985	Halifax	52-14	Huddersfield Barracudas	Thrum Hall	2516
6	Sun 15 Sep 1985	Hull KR	12-10	Hull F.C.	Craven Park (1)	10115	^[2]
7	Sun 15 Sep 1985	Leeds	60-12	Keighley	Headingley	4775
8	Sun 15 Sep 1985	York	18-26	Featherstone Rovers	Clarence Street	2283

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att

1	Wed 25 Sep 1985	Dewsbury	2-48	Leeds	Crown Flatt	3700
2	Wed 25 Sep 1985	Featherstone Rovers	11-22	Bradford Northern	Post Office Road	2185
3	Wed 25 Sep 1985	Halifax	4-24	Castleford	Thrum Hall	4012
4	Wed 25 Sep 1985	Hull KR	30-6	Bramley	Craven Park (1)	3959

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No	Fixture Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Att

1	Wed 2 Oct 1985	Hull KR	11-5	Bradford Northern	Craven Park (1)	6008
2	Wed 2 Oct 1985	Leeds	10-14	Castleford	Headingley	10281

Final

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

	Sunday 27 October 1985	Hull KR		22-18		Castleford	Headingley	12,686	£36,327	2	^[3]^[4]^[5]

Teams and Scorers^[4]^[1]

Hull KR	№	Castleford

	teams
George Fairbairn	1	Gary Lord
Garry Clark	2	David Plange
John Dorahy	3	Tony Marchant
Gary Prohm	4	Gary Hyde
David Laws	5	Tony Spears
Gordon Smith	6	Steve Diamond
Paul Harkin	7	Robert "Bob" Beardmore
Peter Johnston	8	Kevin Ward
David Watkinson	9	Kevin Beardmore
Asuquo "Zook" Ema	10	Barry Johnson
Chris Burton	11	Keith England
Phil Hogan	12	Martin Ketteridge
Gavin Miller	13	John Joyner
John Lydiat (for George Fairbairn)	14	David Roockley
Andy Kelly (for Phil Hogan)	15	Ian Fletcher
Roger Millward	Coach	Malcolm "Mal" Reilly

22	score	18
10	HT	6

	Scorers
	Tries
Garry Clark (1)	T	Tony Marchant (2)
Gavin Miller (2)	T	Robert "Bob" Beardmore (1)
	Goals
John Dorahy (5)	G	Steve Diamond (1)
	G	Robert "Bob" Beardmore (2)
Referee		Ronald "Ronnie" Campbell (Widnes)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match		Gavin Miller - Hull KR - loose forward
sponsored by
Competition Sponsor		John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster

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


Hull KR	12

Hull F.C.	10
		Hull KR	30

		Bramley	6
Bramley	22

Doncaster	10
				Hull KR	11

				Bradford Northern	5
York	18

Featherstone Rovers	26
		Featherstone Rovers	11

		Bradford Northern	22
Bradford Northern	40

Wakefield Trinity	15
						Hull KR	22

						Castleford	18
Batley	10

Dewsbury	14
		Dewsbury	2

		Leeds	48
Leeds	60

Keighley	12
				Leeds	10

				Castleford	14
Halifax	52

Huddersfield Barracudas	14
		Halifax	4

		Castleford	24
Castleford	60

Hunslet	2

Notes

1 * This is the first Yorkshire Cup match played by Sheffield Eagles, newly elected to the league
2 * 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.

References

1 2 "Rugby League Project".
↑ "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.
↑ Yorkshire County Rugby League Programme dept. Match Programme Yorkshire Cup 1985. YCRL Committee.

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