1969–70_Yorkshire_Cup

1969–70 Yorkshire Cup

1969–70 Yorkshire Cup

Rugby league season

The 1969–70 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

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Hull F.C. won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 12-9

The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 11,089 and receipts were £3,419

This was only Hull FC's second Yorkshire Cup win (the previous being in 1923) in thirteen Final appearances and in many quarters the club had been classed as "the bridesmaid but never the bride". It was also to be Featherstone Rovers's first of two successive final defeats

This was the last Yorkshire Cup final for 9 years in which the attendance would reach 10,000

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

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Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs

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Round 2 - quarterfinals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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Round 3 – semifinals

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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Final

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Teams and scorers

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

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The road to success

First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Leeds 20
Bradford Northern 6
Leeds 44
Halifax 6
Halifax 27
Wakefield Trinity 15
Leeds 17
Hull F.C. 20
York 20
Hunslet 7
York 15
Hull F.C. 22
Hull F.C. 30
Castleford 4
Hull F.C. 12
Featherstone Rovers 9
Doncaster 18
Featherstone Rovers 20
Featherstone Rovers 24
Huddersfield 7
Dewsbury 8
Huddersfield 19
Featherstone Rovers 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 9
Bramley 2
Batley 6
Batley 20
Hull Kingston Rovers 30
Keighley 4
Hull Kingston Rovers 16

Notes and comments

1 * 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)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Rugby League Project".
  2. [2]
    Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding (1991). John Player Yearbook 1975–76. Queen Anne Press.
  3. [3]
    HC&AC Committee (1970). Fartown Rugby League Year Book 1970 (price 2/-). HC&AC Supporters' Club.
  4. [4]
    "Fartown Rugby League Yearbook 1970" (PDF).
  5. [5]
    "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. [6]
    Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  7. [7]
    Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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