1972_Yorkshire_Cup

1972–73 Yorkshire Cup

1972–73 Yorkshire Cup

65th edition of the Yorkshire Cup

The 1972–73 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.

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Leeds winning the trophy by beating Dewsbury by the score of 36–9 in what would be Dewsbury's last appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final

The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,806 and receipts were £2,659

This was Leeds third victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons

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 - Quarter-finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs

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Round 3 – Semi-finals

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 points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

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The road to success

First round Second round Semi-finals Final
            
Hull F.C. 8
Leeds 19
Leeds 36
Featherstone Rovers 5
Featherstone Rovers 38
Batley 8
Leeds 26
Huddersfield 13
Huddersfield 26
Doncaster 5
Huddersfield 12
Hull Kingston Rovers 8
Hull Kingston Rovers 36
Bradford Northern 27
Leeds 36
Dewsbury 9
Bramley 16
York 9
Bramley 8
Dewsbury 20
Dewsbury 19
Castleford 5
Dewsbury 19
Halifax 10
Wakefield Trinity 38
Keighley 7
Wakefield Trinity 9
Halifax 11
Hunslet 8
Halifax 76

Notes and comments

1 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington.

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]
    "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  4. [4]
    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. [5]
    Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  6. [6]
    Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
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