1971–72 Yorkshire Cup

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1971–72 Yorkshire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams14 or 15
WinnersHull Kingston Rovers
Runners-upCastleford

The 1971–72 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fourth occasion on which the RFL Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

Hull Kingston Rovers won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 11–7. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,536 and receipts were £1,589. The attendance was a Yorkshire Cup final record, the lowest ever, a record which would never be beaten.[citation needed] This is the second time in four seasons that Castleford, (who have never won the trophy, to date) finished as runner-up.

Competition and results[edit]

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Round 1[edit]

Involved either 6 or 7 matches (with one or two byes) and either 14 or 15 Clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 31 Jul 1971 Castleford 24-5 Batley Wheldon Road
2 Sat 31 Jul 1971 Hull F.C. 9-2 Featherstone Rovers Boulevard [3]
3 Sun 1 Aug 1971 Doncaster 12-4 Bradford Northern Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield
4 Sun 1 Aug 1971 Halifax 19-10 York Thrum Hall
5 Sun 1 Aug 1971 Hunslet 10-17 Keighley Parkside
6 Sun 1 Aug 1971 Wakefield Trinity 11-4 Huddersfield Belle Vue [4]
7 Bramley BYE Leeds (Did not compete) 2
8 Hull Kingston Rovers BYE Dewsbury (Did not compete) 2

Round 2 - Quarter-finals[edit]

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 6 Aug 1971 Castleford 13-10 Wakefield Trinity Wheldon Road [4]
2 Fri 6 Aug 1971 Keighley 16-12 Hull F.C. Lawkholme Lane [3]
3 Sun 8 Aug 1971 Bramley 18-12 Halifax McLaren Field
4 Sun 8 Aug 1971 Doncaster 14-24 Hull Kingston Rovers Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield

Round 3 – Semi-finals[edit]

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 13 Aug 1971 Castleford 12-7 Keighley Wheldon Road [4]
2 Sun 15 Aug 1971 Hull Kingston Rovers 25-6 Bramley Craven Park (1)

Final[edit]

Game No Fixture date Home team Score Away team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 21 August 1971 Hull Kingston Rovers 11-7 Castleford Belle Vue 5,536 £1,589 2 [5][6]

Teams and scorers[edit]

Hull Kingston Rovers No. Castleford
Teams
Ian Markham 1 Derek Edwards
Mike Stephenson 2 Derek Foster
Phil lip "Phil" Coupland 3 Steve 'Knocker' Norton
George Kirkpatrick 4 Keith Worsley
Paul Longstaff 5 Alan Lowndes
Roger Millward (c) 6 Danny Hargrave
Paul Daley 7 Gary Stephens
Steve Wiley 8 Dennis Hartley
Peter Flanagan 9 Tony Miller
John Millington 10 Ian Van Bellen
Cliff Wallis 11 Brian Lockwood
Eric Palmer 12 Alan Dickinson
Joe Brown 13 Graham Blakeway
John Moore 14 Glyn Jones
Colin Cooper (for Eric Palmer) 15 Alan Ackroyd (for Ian Van Bellen)
Johnny Whiteley Coach Harry Poole
11 score 7
7 HT 3
Scorers
Tries
Paul Longstaff (1) T Derek Foster (1)
Goals
Roger Millward (4) G Alan Ackroyd (2)
Referee Alexander Givvons, Jr. (Oldham)
White Rose Trophy for Man of the match Ian Markham - Hull KR - Fullback
Sponsored by

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points

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The road to success[edit]

First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Doncaster 12
Bradford Northern 4
Doncaster 14
Hull Kingston Rovers 24
Hull Kingston Rovers
??
Hull Kingston Rovers 25
Bramley 6
Bramley
??
Bramley 18
Halifax 12
Halifax 19
York 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 11
Castleford 7
Castleford 24
Batley 5
Castleford 13
Wakefield Trinity 10
Wakefield Trinity 11
Huddersfield 4
Castleford 12
Keighley 7
Hunslet 10
Keighley 17
Keighley 16
Hull F.C. 12
Hull F.C. 9
Featherstone Rovers 2

Notes and comments[edit]

1 * Leeds did not take part this season due to a dispute with the Yorkshire County Committee.[7]

2 * Bramley and Hull Kingston Rovers proceeded to the second round, whereas Dewsbury did not, however I am unable to find any record of these teams for the first round. Can anyone help

3 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield

General information for those unfamiliar[edit]

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)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. ^ a b c 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.
  5. ^ Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  6. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  7. ^ Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1974–75. Queen Anne Press.

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